Head of Transport Network Planning

Overview

Location : Islamabad

Last Date TO Apply : 9 October 2025

The Head of Transport Network Planning is responsible for the end-to-end planning, design, and evolution of Jazz’s entire transport network — covering optical (DWDM / OTN), IP / MPLS, microwave, IPRAN, FTTS, and passive fiber infrastructure. This leadership role ensures the transport network is future-ready, resilient, cost-efficient, and scalable to meet the growing needs of nationwide customers, enterprise clients, hyperscalers, and digital platforms. The position combines strategic vision with hands-on technical expertise, driving both long-term architecture and day-to-day planning activities.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, design, and capacity management of the entire transport domain : optical, IP / MPLS, microwave, and access / backhaul.
• Prepare and review high-level and low-level designs (HLD / LLD) across transport layers.
• Evaluate vendor-proposed technical solutions, ensuring compliance with standards and cost efficiency.
• Deliver detailed implementation and migration plans for transport upgrades, expansions, and new builds.
• Develop strategies for integration across optical, IP, and microwave domains to support mobile and fixed broadband growth.
• Oversee IPRAN and FTTH / FTTS planning, including GPON / XGS-PON architectures and last-mile delivery.
• Conduct capacity planning, link budget analysis, and resiliency design across multiple technologies.
• Prepare and evaluate RFPs for multi-technology transport platforms and related services.
• Maintain comprehensive network documentation (capacity dashboards, inventories, restoration maps, SOPs / MOPs).
• Engage continuously with operations, ensuring optimized performance and seamless service delivery.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (core, IT, cloud, vendors, international carriers, regulators).
• Lead projects including nationwide transport expansions, metro ring upgrades, FTTH rollouts, 5G backhaul, and submarine landing integration.
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing transport planning team.

Qualifications

Benefits

Why Join Jazz? As one of the leading employers in the country, Jazz epitomizes the philosophy that each Jazz employee is passionately living a better every day inspired and enabled by visionary leadership, a unique professional culture, a flourishing lifestyle, and continuous learning and development. Our core values include qualities essential for a positive organizational culture - truthfully guiding entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets, harnessing professional and interpersonal collaboration, and fostering across-the-board customer obsession. As one of the largest private sector organizations in Pakistan, our objective is to continue to change the lives of our 70+ million customers for the better. This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be part of something transformative, someone who can play a critical role in driving our success. Together, we can empower millions more with the tools necessary to progress in an increasingly digital economy.

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