Senior Design Specialist - Wireless Core Team - IoT (Toronto, ON, CA, M5J 2V5)

What you’ll do

• Define and communicate a clear product vision and strategy for IoT services over the mobile core network.
• Develop and maintain a product roadmap aligned with business goals, customer needs, and emerging trends.
• Identify opportunities for enhancing IoT connectivity, latency optimization, and security across 4G, 5G, and future network evolutions.
• Guide the DevOps team in the implementation of network solutions by providing clear requirements, priorities, and acceptance criteria.
• Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring that priorities reflect business value, feasibility, customer impact and timeliness.
• Facilitate sprint planning and manage product delivery timelines in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Write descriptive user stories and acceptance criteria to guide the development teams.
• Prioritize features and improvements based on technical feasibility, regulatory compliance, and customer requirements.
• Collaborate with vendors, network architects, engineering teams, and operations to ensure timely and efficient delivery of network capabilities.
• Partner with commercial teams to understand market demands and tailor IoT connectivity solutions to customer needs.
• Drive the business value of IoT solutions by translating customer and market needs into high-impact network features.
• Build, maintain and leverage strong relationships with your stakeholders and maintain a collaborative model in order to ensure that you are collectively meeting the requirements of the business
• Liaise with regulatory bodies such as CRTC, and ensure compliance with industry standards, security, and privacy requirements.
• Work with other strategic leaders to define, implement, and track the financial goals of the IoT core domain.
• Provide technical leadership in the design and implementation of IoT-specific network slices, Quality of Service (QoS) management, and security policies.
• Guide the team on integrating NB-IoT, LTE-M, and 5G capabilities to enable seamless IoT connectivity.
• Ensure adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and maintain high availability of the IoT mobile core network.
• Gather and analyze customer feedback to continually enhance product features and performance.
• Monitor competitive landscape and emerging technologies to maintain a competitive edge in IoT service offerings.
• Define and track KPIs to measure the success of the IoT mobile core network solutions and demonstrate ROI.

What you bring

• 10+ years of progressive experience in mobile core (3G/4G/5G) architecture, design, implementation, and operations.
• Expertise in mobile core protocols such as Diameter, GTP, Radius, SIP, MQTT, and HTTP/2.
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies (NFV, SDN) and cloud-native deployments (Kubernetes, Docker, RedHat OpenShift).
• Understanding of Security controls (authentication, encryption, IDS/IPS) applicable in the mobile networks
• Familiarity with IoT-specific standards such as NB-IoT, LTE-M, and 5G network slicing.
• Experience with Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, and tools like GitLab.
• Exposure to analytics platforms such as Splunk, Netscout, BigQuery, Looker.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to bridge technical expertise with business strategy to drive product success.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a dynamic environment
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Telecommunications, Computer Science, or a related technical field.

Great-to-haves

• Masters in business administration (MBA)
• Agile Certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Product Owner)
• Experience with Public Cloud Native Services (AWS, GCP)
• Knowledge of Radio, Transport, Signaling, and Infrastructure product design, development, and testing.
• Familiarity with industrial IoT use cases and network slicing applications
• Programming experience in Python, Ansible, or API integration

Location: Any major Canadian city