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Verizon Wireless Distinguished Engineer - Standards System Architect in Seattle, Washington
When you join Verizon You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely - even if they're daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life. What you'll be doing... As a Lead member of the Network Planning Technology Standards team, you will be responsible for supporting the Service and System Aspects (SA) network design from a Standards perspective - aka "the Core". Ensuring 4G, 5G and Next Gen network Standards are defined and satisfy feature requirements and performance objectives. You will also be responsible for technology analysis and driving Verizon priorities, strategic interests and objectives. You'll be analyzing and designing SA architecture layers (physical, signaling, protocol and above) that will optimize networks to support innovative applications. The System Architecture will deliver demanding ultra-low latency, massive MTC connections and high throughput performance requirements to meet customer experience. Therefore, you will be adept at developing relationships with external parties and influencing direction in industry bodies. Evaluating and authoring 3GPP technical contributions and driving Verizon positions and alignment with operators and vendors. Serving as 3GPP domain expert, this role will serve as an influential 3GPP Delegate in key workgroups while supporting cross-workgroup coordination with other delegates and SMEs to represent Verizon interests at the Plenary TSGs as well. VZ participant must have the technical competence, recognition and influence with external contacts to ensure agreements and prioritized technical contributions are ratified. Specific participation will include or influence: SA Plenary: Technical Steering Group which approves the work of all 6 SA sub-workgroups each quarter. SA1: Service requirements for the 5G system; SA2: System Architecture; SA3: Security and Privacy; SA4: Multimedia Codecs, systems and services; SA5: Management, orchestration & charging; SA6: Application Enablement & Critical Communications. Contributing on a Global Scale - The SA WGs have a large number of participants and works on the earliest Study Item engagements of all 3GPP Working Groups with these domain experts driving the technology discussions. The best ones have expertise on a handful of the topics, but there is significant depth of knowledge required to show technical competency to effectively collaborate with these diverse minds from around the globe. This means interacting with Global partners and competitors equally in a supplier led environment while navigating geo-political influences and competitive strategies and tactics. Supporting the development of a 3+ year technology strategic view on Core/RAN, including Network Slicing, Voice, IoT, V2X, MEC, strategic Vertical enablement (Drones/UAV), data and video. This includes effectively characterizing and summarizing the technical direction of industry activity to inform various stakeholders and leadership (formally and ad hoc). Demonstrating excellent working and technical relationships with Network Planning, Device Technology, Network Operations Teams, Data Performance, System Performance, and Engineering and Operations. Serving as a mentor and guide to other delegates and SMEs to increase technical competency and knowledge of navigating the Standards process. Independently managing complex technical projects, including forming any leading industry standard meeting and