Senior Manager - Fixed Network Planning and IP Core Architecture

About the role

The Senior Manager: Fixed Network Planning and IP Core Architecture is MTN Group's principal technical authority for Transport, Transmission and IP Architecture. Reporting to the General Manager: Transport and OSS Tools, the role covers fibre, optical transmission, IP/MPLS, international and submarine capacity, satellite connectivity, peering, transit and content interconnection. It is a Group Technology role focused on network resilience and broad network planning, producing technical recommendations, architecture frameworks, planning inputs and compliance assessments.

Key responsibilities

• Support the Group Transport and Transmission Strategy with technical inputs, analysis and recommendations across fibre, metro, aggregation, backbone, DWDM, IP transport, satellite and submarine domains, and turn OpCo business plans and capacity demand into technical roadmap proposals.
• Assess technology and market shifts and give technical implications for transport planning, capacity sourcing and network evolution.
• Develop reference architectures, design principles and technology standards for IP/MPLS, SR-MPLS/SRv6, IPv6, PCE, traffic engineering, QoS and convergence, and recommend open, disaggregated and automation-ready architectures.
• Assess emerging technologies such as fibre sensing, satellite evolution, open networking and IP core modernisation, and run or facilitate architecture reviews, technology assessments, proof-of-concept evaluations and supplier technical engagements.
• Support OpCo investment and architecture assessments, strengthen network resilience, and define Transport architecture requirements for software-defined, automation-ready and AI-enabled networks.
• Deliver quarterly technical progress reports and documented inputs for submarine, satellite, peering, transit, CDN, PNI and IXP decisions.

The role does not own Group strategy, approve roadmaps, make final investment or vendor decisions, own AI strategy or carry overall Group transport leadership accountability; final strategy, roadmap, investment, vendor and AI direction is approved by the General Manager and Group governance structures.