Customer Solutions Design Specialist

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About the role

The Customer Solutions Design Specialist independently executes a range of workstreams in the creation of end-to-end technical designs, ensuring that business requirements are successful translated into deliverable solutions, which meet customer needs whilst considering the impact of those solutions on all technical and business areas.

What you’ll be doing

1. Captures detailed customer technical requirements and translation to detailed solution design in accordance with design methodologies.
2. Manages and recommends on the technical direction and helps determine the optimum solution design for customers.
3. Manages the review and validation processes for both new developments and in-life products and services, ensuring full integration across all aspects, considering the broad impact of solutions on the product roadmap.
4. Drives the improvement of design and delivery capabilities for end-to-end technical solutions.
5. Manages customer solution design engagement and statement of work creation, including any 3rd party deliverables.
6. Facilitates the development of strong customer relationships at the senior level through providing specialist service design expertise, and influencing the customer's service strategy and operational decisions.
7. Drives consistency in architecture and technical processes, with the aim of reducing costs and increasing productivity.
8. Undertakes customer migration planning and implementation.
9. Coordinates impact assessments and design documentation updates.
10. Resolves complex solution and service issues, leads root cause analysis, troubleshooting and escalation.
11. Pursues the identification of potential risks and the implementation of controls and mitigations, ensuring compliance with relevant industry and company policies.
12. Ensures the delivery of thought leadership in complex bids and agreeing strategic approach as part of customer solution design.
13. Mentors other customer solution designers, helping to improve the team's abilities by acting as a technical resource.
14. Champions, continuously develops and shares with team knowledge on emerging trends and changes in customer solution design.

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Our Package

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.