Lead Telecommunications Engineer

Why UKG

At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.

We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.

About The Role

The Lead Telecom Engineer is responsible for providing advanced technical and operational support around Telecommunications and Contact Center environment. Daily responsibilities include customer interaction, design, documentation, system admin, report analysis, implementation, and troubleshooting infrastructure and integrations.

Responsibilities

• Responsibilities include support of Telecom related needs and leads the design of Telephony architecture, integration, and installation, including hardware, software, access methods, and protocols used.
• Participates in various telephony projects intended to continually improve/upgrade the telecommunications infrastructure.
• Design/Management of inbound/outbound call routing traffic to the NICE CXone-inContact Call Center.
• Design/Management of monitoring platforms to capture telecom infrastructure health and performance to ensure network stability.
• Communicates and coordinates telecom downtime and service windows with Shared Services Teams.
• Coordinates third-party maintenance for telecom hardware, software, and telecommunications services.
• Maintains corporate compliance/risk with established standards and practices.
• Prepares and maintains telecom infrastructure documentation of topology, device/system configurations and dial plan.
• Maintain and update voice portals for carriers including call routes for DIDs, and Toll-Free Numbers.

About You

Required Qualifications:

• 4-6+ years’ experience with telecommunications network design, architecture, and support in UCaaS/CCaaS environments.
• 4-6+ years of hands-on telephony experience in support of enterprise PBX/UCaaS systems with the ability to troubleshoot, analyze and remediate common issues including support of SBC’s, SIP, VoIP telephones, etc.
• Well-rounded in the administration of Contact Center application technologies (CCaaS) with experience in IVR/IVA Speech Recognition, Scripting, Virtual AI Agents (Self-Service), Call Routing, Workforce Management, and Call/Screen Recording.
• Experience with Contact Centers (on-prem and cloud-based), including integration with Salesforce/ServiceNow (CTI), WFM/WFO, APIs and reporting tools.
• Ability to participate in On-Call rotation.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience working with SIP/RTP/WebRTC protocols
• Experience with formal change management.
• Bachelor's Degree in IT Related program or relevant experience.
• RingCentral and NICE CXone-inContact product experience and/or relevant experience in key competitor offerings.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies, such as Kanban or SCRUM.
• Demonstrated ability to implement, drive and track projects.
• Previous experience inspecting network traffic from a voice perspective.

Company Overview

UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.

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The pay range for this position is $102,300.00 to $147,050.00. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation. Learn more about UKG’s benefits and rewards at