Motorola Solutions

Manager of Regional MCN Deployments NSA Team - Network Practice Office (NPO)

Motorola Solutions • $140K — $155K *
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Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, IT, Network Engineering, or related field; or equivalent experience in mission-critical engineering team management.
  • 5-7 years of leadership experience in technical environments, preferably in network solutions.
  • Strong expertise in network design, mobile backhaul, and security best practices.
  • Proven ability to lead autonomous teams and drive accountability.
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills with a track record of effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a regional team of Network Solutions Architects (NSAs).
  • Oversee deployment of ASTRO P25 LMR networks and complex LAN/WAN designs.
  • Manage escalation and troubleshooting of network and mobile backhaul issues.
  • Ensure high-quality design guidance for customers' transport network solutions.
  • Collaborate on bid strategies and present technical designs to stakeholders.
  • Maintain and document standard reference designs for network architectures.
  • Conduct audits to ensure security standards are met for public safety networks.

Benefits

  • Incentive Bonus Plans
  • Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
  • 401K with Company Match
  • 10 Paid Holidays
  • Generous Paid Time Off Packages
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Paid Parental & Family Leave
  • and more!
Full Job Description
NOTE: This candidate will preferrably reside in PST or CST Time Zones.

The Manager of Regional MCN Deployments NSA Team - Network Practice Office (NPO) provides leadership, strategic direction, and technical oversight to a team of regional Network Solutions Architects (NSAs). This role acts as a key leadership liaison, collaborating on design standards and best practices alongside other regional leads, the Network Practice Office (NPO), and other North American IP Network Subject Matter Experts.

The Manager must be highly self-motivated, possess the ability to lead autonomously, drive team accountability, and ensure the regional team continuously updates their skill sets to align with evolving technologies and mission-critical standards.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Team Leadership & Development: Lead, mentor, and manage a regional team of NSAs. Establish and execute training regimens for territory-level engineers to ensure the team acquires higher-level skills in network design, mobile backhaul, and security.
  • Deployment Oversight: Oversee the design and integration of ASTRO P25 LMR networks with customer enterprise applications across the region. Ensure the successful deployment of complex, unique LAN/WAN designs using MSI and third-party vendor equipment.
  • Escalation & Troubleshooting Management: Direct and support the team in assisting post-sale engineering groups with troubleshooting complex network and mobile backhaul issues.
  • Regional Design Guidance: Ensure the team provides high-quality design guidance on customers' transport network solutions to support services for P25-LMR, LTE, Smart Public Safety, and enterprise applications. Oversee the delivery of design specifications for layer-1 and layer-2 transport media, including fiber and microwave.
  • Project Strategy & Presentation: Collaborate and assist with regional bid strategies and project deployments. Additionally, as required review and present technically compelling system designs to high-level customer stakeholders and pre/post-sale engineering leadership.
  • Operational Excellence: Ensure standard reference designs, including high-level and detailed network diagrams, are rigorously documented.
  • Security & Standards Compliance: Oversee network infrastructure audits and ensure team adherence to testing best practices so that backhaul networks meet mission-critical Public Safety standards.
  • Strategic Vendor Evaluation: Partner with other SMEs to evaluate third-party vendor equipment and make strategic recommendations on future mobile backhaul technology investments.


Additional Responsibilities:
  • Strategic Consultation Leadership: Serve as the regional liaison and internal consultant, ensuring the NSA team acts as premier subject matter experts across the region.
  • Design Standards & Collaboration: Direct regional collaboration with the Network Practice Office and IP Network SMEs to define, champion, and enforce unified design standards and engineering best practices.
  • Autonomy & Skill Alignment: Foster a highly motivated, self-driven team culture, ensuring regional NSAs operate effectively with autonomy while continuously aligning their skills with evolving technology and mission-critical standards.
  • ASTRO P25 Architecture Oversight: Guide and review the team's designs for ASTRO P25 LMR networks and the integration with customer enterprise applications.
  • Complex Problem Resolution: Oversee the escalation and resolution of highly complex customer and internal problems, validating unique LAN/WAN designs that leverage both MSI and third-party vendor equipment.
  • Post-Sale Escalation Management: Manage and direct the regional team in providing tier-3 troubleshooting support to post-sale engineering and service teams for critical network and mobile backhaul issues.
  • Transport Network Design Guidance: Ensure the NSA team delivers authoritative design guidance to local engineering groups regarding transport network solutions and services for P25-LMR, LTE, Smart Public Safety, and enterprise applications.
  • Physical & Data Link Layer Specifications: Supervise the delivery of technically sound supporting design specifications for layer-1 and layer-2 transport media, including fiber and microwave.
  • Executive Presentations & Technical Advocacy: Review, refine, and occasionally deliver high-impact technical presentation materials regarding complex system designs to customers, pre-sale, and post-sale engineering leadership.
  • Bid Strategy & Deployment Alignment: Partner with Sale, Presales Engineering, Postsale Engineering, and Project Management to allocate regional NSA resources for bid strategies and project deployments.
  • Automation Drive: Champion the adoption, development, and implementation of software tools across the team to automate network design and deployment tasks, increasing engineering efficiency.
  • Reference Design Documentation Management: Enforce strict quality control over both high-level and detailed network designs, ensuring they are documented according to the NPO standards.
  • Testing Best Practices & Tool Utilization: Ensure the team effectively utilizes when required advanced test equipment (such as LAN/WAN network and protocol analyzers) and establishes strict testing best practices so that mobile backhaul networks confidently meet mission-critical Public Safety standards.
  • Security Compliance Auditing: Oversee regional compliance to ensure all deployed systems strictly adhere to NPO baseline security standards, while championing continuous initiatives to elevate and enforce network security practices.
  • Training Program Development: Oversee the creation and rollout of a structured training regimen, empowering territory-level NSAs to acquire advanced skills in network design, mobile backhaul, and security.
  • Strategic Vendor Roadmap Evaluation: Coordinate the team's participation with core NPO team to critically evaluate third-party vendor equipment and deliver strategic, future-forward recommendations on mobile backhaul technology investments.
  • Travel: Ability to travel to support customer, team, and project needs within the Mid-West and Western Regions of the U.S. as needed, with limited notice. Occasional travel outside of the region may be required.
  • Leadership Experience: Experience managing, leading, or mentoring technical engineering teams within a mission-critical environment.


Additional Preferred Skills:
  • Technical Oversight Capability: Proven ability to guide teams in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and virtualized servers.
  • Minimum Preferred Certifications: Juniper Network Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA), Nokia Routing Specialist I (NRS I), or equivalent industry-recognized certifications.
  • Network Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, ISIS), MPLS design/deployment, and LAN switching protocols (G8032 ring protection).
  • Vendor & Media Knowledge: Familiarity with Juniper, Nokia, HP, and Fortinet equipment , as well as media types (Metro Ethernet, Frame-Relay, Ethernet, SONET) and physical layers (fiber, copper, microwave).
  • Architecture & Automation: Experience with Motorola ASTRO 25 architecture and scripting/programming for network automation preferred.
  • Tools: Proficiency with Microsoft Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Google applications. Experience overseeing the use of Network Management Applications (e.g., Solarwinds, JUNO-Space, Nokia NFMP, Provision) is a plus.
  • Interpersonal & Communication Skills: Exceptional written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills. Proven track record of working collaboratively and building strong relationships with colleagues, customers, and third-party service professionals.


Target Base Salary Range - $140,000 to $155,000 USD

Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.

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Basic Requirements
  • Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, or a related technical field; OR equivalent practical experience managing technical engineering teams within a mission-critical or public safety environment.
  • Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position.

Travel Requirements
25-50%
Relocation Provided
None
Position Type
Experienced
Referral Payment Plan
Yes

Our U.S. Benefits include:
  • Incentive Bonus Plans
  • Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
  • 401K with Company Match
  • 10 Paid Holidays
  • Generous Paid Time Off Packages
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Paid Parental & Family Leave
  • and more!


About Motorola Solutions

Motorola provides products, technologies, and services for mobile, wireline digital communication, information, and entertainment applications. Its product portfolio includes smartphones operating on the Android operating system, feature phones, media tablet devices, wireless accessories, and more. Its range of smartphone products includes the Moto X first generation, Moto X second generation, Moto G first generation, Moto G second generation, and more. It is also the manufacturer of Moto 360, a smartwatch that provides services such as notifications, updates, and other related features. It also provides monitors, cordless phones, applications, and accessories such as cases, wireless headsets, wireless speakers, and more. In addition, it provides multimedia content, including video, voice, messaging, and cloud-based and Internet-based applications and services to multiple screens such as mobile devices, televisions, media tablets, and personal computers. Its Medios service platform enables service providers to deliver content on devices. Motorola is based in Chicago, Illinois. It primarily sells its products in the United States, China, Brazil, and Singapore. Motorola currently operates as a subsidiary of Google Inc.

Motorola Solutions Careers

Join the dynamic team at Motorola Solutions today and be part of a company renowned for its relentless innovation, leadership in technology, and a commitment to professional excellence. As a global leader in communications and electronics, Motorola Solutions offers unparalleled job opportunities designed to empower your career growth and development. Work You’ll Do At Motorola Solutions, you will collaborate with a diverse team of experts who are at the forefront of technological innovation and public safety solutions. Our work impacts lives, ensuring safety and security for communities around the world. You will be part of a culture that values diversity, equity, and inclusion, and where every team member’s contribution is valued. Lead in Innovation and Technology Motorola Solutions is not just about radios and hardware; we are at the cutting edge of software solutions, AI, and data analytics. By joining our team, you will work on groundbreaking projects that redefine how public safety communicates in the digital age. Your work will help develop smart solutions that keep people safe and businesses thriving. Grow Your Career With Motorola Solutions, your career trajectory is boundless. We offer a variety of professional development and leadership training programs to help you hone your skills and advance within the company. From internships to full-time positions, Motorola Solutions is committed to nurturing talent and fostering an environment where innovation thrives. Benefits and Culture Our employees enjoy a competitive package of benefits that supports their life and well-being. These include health, vision, and dental insurance, employee assistance programs, and flexible working arrangements. At Motorola Solutions, we believe in maintaining a work-life balance that fosters both personal and professional growth. Join Our Team Explore the numerous employment opportunities at Motorola Solutions. Whether you are a seasoned professional or a recent graduate, we have positions ranging from engineering to marketing, sales to project management. We are hiring individuals who are passionate, curious, and ready to drive change. Networking and Professional Development Motorola Solutions values networking and connections within the industry. We encourage our employees to engage in various professional groups and forums to enhance their networking skills and industry knowledge. This engagement is pivotal in fostering a collaborative environment and sparking innovation within our teams. Internship Programs Our internship programs offer a robust introduction to the world of public safety solutions and communications technology. Interns at Motorola Solutions gain hands-on experience, working alongside seasoned professionals and participating in projects that make real-world impacts. Stay Connected Join the Motorola Solutions career community to stay updated on new job openings, company news, and industry developments. Tailor your job search with our career tools and get tips on crafting the perfect resume and acing your interview. Search Motorola Solutions Jobs Ready to start your journey with Motorola Solutions? Search open positions that match your skills and interests. We are looking for individuals who are driven, creative, and ready to make a difference. Keep Up to Date Stay ahead with career tips, insider perspectives, and industry-leading insights you can put to use today—all from the people who work here. Job Alert Emails Personalize your subscription to receive job alerts, latest news, and insider tips tailored to your preferences. Discover the exciting and rewarding career opportunities that await at Motorola Solutions.
Learn more about Motorola Solutions
Size
18,700 employees
Market Cap
$42.7 billion
Industry
Telecommunications & Hardware
Net Income
$949 million
Founded
1928
5 Year Trend
+6.2%
Revenue
$7.4 billion
NASDAQ
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* Ladders Estimates

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