As a 5G Capacity and Data Analytics Specialist, you’ll provide technical leadership to ensure we efficiently plan and deploy network capacity based on customer specific requirements. The role is an intersection between Network Performance, Business Requirements and Customer Experience.

Your creativity coupled with strong data analytics skills and RF Engineering will allow us to find the best ways of building our wireless 4G/5G networks to support existing and new services. You will combine your expert knowledge of wireless networks and analytical skills in applying machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to drive actions and decisions. In close collaboration with teams across the company, you’ll seek out various data sources and identify new business opportunities while championing data driven decision making and the accelerated adoption of AI.

Finally, together as a team, we will help shape the future vision of TELUS’ wireless network by providing important guidance to executives on how best to address our evolving business challenges.

Job description

• By using modern data science and automation techniques, transform our RAN capacity planning processes to enter the 5G service based era
• By proactively defining novel capacity planning techniques/models for 5G/LTE use cases
• By producing and managing the RAN network capacity plans for mobility and fixed wireless users
• By collaborating with other technical and business teams to understand new technologies and services to make our team to succeed in an evolving business environment
• By developing dashboards and data visualizations, you will provide insights into wireless network capacity that can be shared with executives and peer groups
• By monitoring network performance, you will identify actual capacity problems and predict future congestion issues in the network
• By leading the implementation of wireless capacity augments, you will build working processes with performance and construction teams to drive improvements in customer experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or in Electrical Engineering
• 6 or more years of wireless capacity planning, radio network design or optimization with expertise in 5G/LTE technologies
• 4 years or more experience with advanced data science, analytics or software development
• Proven ability to operate autonomously from general guidance
• Regarded as collaborative, creative, entrepreneurial and willing to experiment
• Ability to Zoom in (site level) and Zoom out (National level) to create analysis that caters to a specific problem type. And be good at problem solving and making intuitive decisions by using large datasets.
• Passion for data science, forecasting and skills in data visualization platforms e.g. GCP Looker, Splunk etc
• Experience with SQL databases, understanding of NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, Splunk)
• Experience with Python and familiarity with common data analysis libraries

Must-Have Skills 
1. Advanced Data Science and Analytics: The job requires transforming capacity planning processes using modern data science techniques, developing predictive models, and creating data visualizations. This skill is crucial for analyzing large datasets, forecasting, and providing insights.
2. Wireless Network Expertise (5G/LTE): With a focus on RAN capacity planning for 5G and LTE technologies, a deep understanding of wireless networks is essential. This includes knowledge of network performance, capacity planning, and optimization techniques specific to 5G and LTE.
3. Programming and Database Skills: Proficiency in Python, SQL, and familiarity with data analysis libraries. These skills are necessary for data manipulation, analysis, and working with various database systems.

Nice-to-Have Skills
1. Business and project leadership skills
2. Data visualization (e.g. GCP looker, Splunk)
3. Cross-functional collaboration skills