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You will be a subject matter expert who provides technical expertise on the Spectrum Strategy and RAN Capacity Planning. This position will focus on Verizon’s spectrum and capacity plans long term and provide guidance as a technical SME for Verizon RAN Planning.

• Serving as a subject matter expert and technical lead for Verizon RAN Planning.
• Completing detailed analysis and recommendations for Verizon’s RAN including 5G and 6G, Spectrum Management decisions, and regulatory framework decisions.
• Performing radio wave propagation, signal loss models, interference analysis, and the ability to perform detailed link budget calculations for various radio technologies and deployment scenarios.
• Interpreting and analyzing FCC rules, regulations, and public notices related to spectrum and engaging with regulatory bodies and understanding the policy-making process.
• Interfacing with internal teams such as device, network planning, territory, planning, and the field to develop and distribute guidance to national market teams.
• Forecasting device and network utilization trends and how those trends impacts RAN capacity.
• Conducting long-term spectrum planning analysis and with alignment to Verizon’s business objectives and customer experience.
• Staying abreast of key industry trends, such as the evolution of mobile technologies, the increasing demand for data, the growth of IoT and private networks, and new spectrum sharing techniques, is critical for proactive spectrum planning.
• Developing guidance on how to properly gauge network capacity year over year while accounting for technology improvements in the 3GPP specifications that requires one to understand the device makeup of the Verizon network, RF coverage and link budgets, Verizon’s capacity and triggering sector methodologies in VPI, and the customer experience.
• Conducting analytics and automation that will enable consistent, accurate, and actionable guidance/modeling to be provided to various business units across the company.
• Being able to conduct Geospatial analysis that will often be required as the solutions that are being evaluated regularly spanning large geographic areas and having attributes that are specific to certain locations.
• Analyzing major network infrastructure decisions for the company for Radio Access Planning.

This position can be located in any valid US based Verizon network location