Senior Solution Engineer - FTTx

Senior Solution Engineer - FTTx with a leading Telco client (consulting through FinXL). FinXL Professional Services is a leading IT consultancy that partners with clients to bridge the gap between business needs and technology capabilities. Since 2003, we've been delivering high-value ICT services across government, finance, telecommunications, and enterprise sectors. FinXL is seeking a Senior Solution Engineer - FTTx to join our consulting team and be deployed with a leading Telco client on a 12 months contract in North Sydney.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for detailed design development, testing, and production deployment of FTTx solutions; Ensure network design decisions appropriately consider scale rollout, OSS impacts, security, automation, and innovation; Manage delivery team-level commitments while proactively tracking risks, issues, and dependencies; Build constructive relationships with vendors and delivery partners to ensure high-quality outcomes; Offer engineering guidance to help internal and external teams navigate operational, lifecycle, capacity, and performance challenges

Requirements

Extensive engineering experience in Solution Engineering and Delivery within a large telecommunications provider or vendor environment; Deep technical expertise in FTTx Access Networks including GPON/XGSPON (OLT, ONT), VDSL2 (DSLAM, DPU), and Intent-Based Networking; Strong hands-on experience with FTTx EMS Applications, containerised/virtualised environments (AAC, ACS, AMS), and automation using Jenkins, Ansible, Python, or Shell Scripting; Proven ability to lead virtual technical teams to success and bring new engineering solutions to life; Experience delivering under the SAFe Agile Methodology leveraging JIRA and Confluence to plan and manage work; Confident making design decisions, supporting escalations, and moving seamlessly between high-level architectural thinking and detailed configuration work; Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and technical writing skills across both technical and non-technical audiences