Core network delivery engineer (lazio)

Location: Napoli, Milano, Ivrea and Torino

Role Purpose

Integrate Voice Core technologies and functions into Vodafone-managed networks, aligning with the domain’s strategy and goals. This role covers the full engineering lifecycle—requirements, design, testing, acceptance, integration, and deployment—ensuring in-service performance matches design intent. Focus areas include 2G/3G/4G and 5G core network functions linked to customer data repositories (HLR, HSS, CSDB, UDM), signalling network functions (STP, DRA, SCP), IP multimedia systems (TAS, CSCF, SBC, ENUM/DNS), and mobile switching centres (TSC, MSS, MGW). The role will define low-level designs, support engineering and development of the Voice Core Network, ensure quality, availability, and robustness, perform acceptance tests for new software and network elements, guarantee end-to-end integration—including interconnect with other operators—and promote harmonization across countries.

What you’ll do
- Detailed Planning and Integration: Oversee detailed planning, low-level design, configuration, and integration with mobile and fixed interconnected operators.
- Lifecycle Management: Manage the lifecycle of systems within the Voice Core domain.
- Hardware and Software Acceptance: Ensure hardware and software acceptance in the network, meeting business functional requirements and operational suitability.
- Integration Testing: Conduct integration testing of new technologies and services, collaborating with suppliers, Operations, Security, Regulatory, and other group functions.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Work with all stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of functionality and quality in projects, making decisions where Voice Core is the lead domain.
- Network and service performance targets: Ensure availability and performance targets are met, measured by internal and external drive trials, maintaining in‑service performance, timeliness, and quality of delivery.

Who you are
- Collaboration and Problem Solving: