Senior Lead Engineering Manager - Telecom

Job description

About the Role: the employer is seeking a Senior Lead Engineering Manager specializing in Telecom to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Responsibilities include providing technical leadership for end-to-end conceptualization, design, selection, integration, commissioning, and troubleshooting of telecom networks. Developing engineering designs for telecom systems in substations and power transmission, including overhead lines and underground cables. Selecting fiber characteristics, multiplexers, and interface cards for protection relays, meters, Substation Automation Systems, and communication systems. Designing telecom systems for conventional and inverter-based generation plants, selecting Ethernet switches and time‑synchronization elements. Understanding project requirements to develop detailed Telecom Network Architectures. Applying knowledge of OEM telecom products (multiplexers, Ethernet switches, fiber optics, GPS/GNSS) and their limitations. Performing traffic engineering for low‑latency, low‑jitter networks suitable for PPC/EMS control loops. Determining equipment ratings based on Telecom Budget calculations, familiar with products from the employer, GE, Siemens, Huawei, and ZTE. Defining requirements and creating detailed specifications. Supporting Factory Acceptance Tests and guiding field commissioning, including cold and hot commissioning of telecom systems. Supporting field testing such as telecom power autonomy, blackout recovery, fiber link certification, backbone redundancy failover, PTP/NTP stability, time synchronization, cyber‑security checks, and protocol transmission verification

Requirements

• Proficient in technical leadership for telecom network design and integration
• Knowledge of engineering design for substations and power transmission systems
• Expertise in selecting fiber characteristics, multiplexers, and interface cards
• Experience designing telecom systems for conventional and inverter‑based generation plants
• Familiarity with OEM telecom products such as the employer, GE, Siemens, Huawei, ZTE
• Experience in traffic engineering for low‑latency networks
• Knowledge of communication protocols Modbus TCP/IP, IEC 101, IEC 104, IEC 61850, GOOSE
• Experience with GPS/GNSS systems and standards IRIG‑B, PTP, IEEE 1588
• Proficient in cyber‑security compliance checks for telecom
• Experience supporting Factory Acceptance Tests and field commissioning
• Diagnostic skills using Wireshark, packet capture, and network monitoring tools
• Experience with data formats including Comtrade.

Skills