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Job Description:

This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.

AT&T will not hire any applicants who require employer sponsorship now or in the future.

Join AT&T and help shape the future of communications and technology that connect the world. We value innovators who seek to explore the unknown and challenge the status quo. Bring your bold ideas and fearless spirit to redefine connectivity and transform how people share stories and experiences. At AT&T, you won’t just imagine the future—you’ll build it.

What you’ll do:

• Strategic planning and big-picture thinking, including technology development and advancement across cloud, hardware, software, XaaS, IoT, AI/ML, automation, and more.
• Serve as a technological expert, working closely with business unit stakeholders to provide sourcing and cost analysis support, ensuring solutions align with technology strategies. This includes:
  • Understanding offerings and costs, evaluating alternatives, and comparing solutions to existing company technologies.
  • Negotiating security controls through Supplier Information Security Requirements (SISR) to mitigate technology risks and ensure compliance with ASPR.
  • Analyzing software SKUs to ensure each sourcing event contains a complete solution, and asking probing questions about each SKU to avoid over-proposal.
• Review architecture to determine if public-cloud or private-cloud hosting is appropriate and ensure contracts include the correct cloud terms.
• Translate network architectures, technology evolution, and deployment models into cost elements and contractual terms that align with business value.
• Understand technology cost drivers to align pricing models with realized business value.
• Transform technical requirements into contractual obligations to hold suppliers accountable for successful implementation.
• Demonstrate fluency in operating systems, cores, containers, sockets, and network technologies such as OpenROADM, network disaggregation, Open RAN, and Virtual RAN to negotiate relevant terms for asset management and compliance.
• Lead business process, cost management, and governance to ensure a single version of truth for enterprise spend data, optimization, compliance, and automation where applicable.
• Manage risk, solve problems, and apply knowledge of laws, intellectual property, and technical regulations regarding data and privacy to inform decisions and ensure business unit stakeholders are aware of considerations.
• Work seamlessly within and across companies, cultures, functions, and geographies to drive change and action.
• Apply best practices from within and across industries, translating learnings into actionable strategies for AT&T.
• Demonstrate project management skills to oversee small to large projects that may involve cross-functional teams.

What you'll need

• 5-7 years of experience in the similar role
• Sourcing expertise to support the adoption and rationalization of technologies, requiring technical knowledge in emerging areas such as third-party/hybrid/on-premise cloud, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) software, Radio Access Networks, next-generation Business Support Systems, automation, transformational SaaS and PaaS, disaggregated network solutions, data warehouse and analytics, and direct chip supplier relationships.
• Ability to support a technical client organization and cross-functional technical programs/projects to advance AT&T technology.
• Technical sourcing managers will assist client organizations in setting strategies to support business processes and post-contract sourcing operations for strategic and broad supplier relationships.
• Bachelors degree preferred

Our Lead Technical Sourcing Management, earns between $118,800-$178,200 USD Annual Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.  

Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage  
• 401(k) plan  
• Tuition reimbursement program  
• Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)  
• Paid Parental Leave  
• Paid Caregiver Leave  
• Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected  
• Adoption Reimbursement  
• Disability Benefits (short term and long term)  
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance  
• Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal  
• Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)  
• Extensive employee wellness programs  
• Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories,
• AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone.

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It is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.