| Duties & Responsibilites : | Local Candidate Only
-The Solution Architect will be responsible for interfacing with business units to understand their needs, for interfacing with Ethernet service provisioning, service activation and service assurance teams to understand their needs, working with various architecture and development teams to create a E2E solution to the business need utilizing the organization's application and services infrastructure, and then working with impacted development and testing team(s) to ensure successful delivery of the proposed solution.
-Projects will include working with business needs for Metro/National Ethernet Services and other emerging technologies.
-The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and a background in architecture and business/system analysis. -Proven experience in requirements gathering techniques, use case definition, architecture diagramming, sequence diagrams, test planning/execution and system requirement analysis.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF POSITION INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING:
Collaborate with business units requesting systems changes to clarify and document business requirements and business process flows
- Partner with Architecture and Development teams to identify feasible solutions and Services that meet the business need
- Document requirements, use cases, architecture diagrams, and sequence diagrams
- Conduct user interviews, JAD sessions, and other forums to define and capture requirements and design of the solution
- Collaborate with application development and test teams to ensure that use cases and system requirements are understood and actionable
- Present solutions to business requesters, architects, development and testing teams
- Make informed decisions and choices based upon priority, business necessity and bottom line impacts
- Assess work effort, provide timelines for completion of work and deliver within set expectations
REQUIRED SKILLS:
OSS, BSS, Ethernet, CRM, Order Management
Minimum Qualifications:
- 15+ Years experience working within the Service Provider Space
- Prior experience surrounding Ethernet and IP Service (IE Private Line, Private LAN, Dedicated Internet, IPVLN)
- Prior experience supporting Retail Wholesale product offerings (Mobile Back Haul and Telecom)
- Design experience within the BSS domain Order Entry/Management, Provisioning Activation
- Inbound / Outbound ASR experience
- Industry leading edge expert knowledge and experiences in carrier Ethernet services end-to-end solutions and operation practices
- Highly skillful in OSS system architecture, designs, specifications, system testing and system users training and adoption in carrier Ethernet service provisioning, design, and configuration
- Deep knowledge and highly experiences in networks, devices, services modeling and automation in OSS systems
- Highly skillful in Ethernet products and standard such as MEF and IEEE 802 Ethernet specifications, service oam 802.1ag/Y.1731/802.3ah
- Good knowledge of IP/MPLS/Ethernet network technologies protocols, implementations and OSS system automations
- Proficiency in documenting Use Cases, Requirements, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams in a technical environment
- Experience facilitating JAD sessions
- Understanding of SOA and experience writing requirements in a SOA environment
- Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Advanced proficiency with use of Microsoft Office applications including, Word, MS Project, Excel and Visio and other tools that facilitate the requirements gathering and design phases of the SDLC
- Ability to work and deliver under the pressure of deadlines and commitments to the customer
Additional Preferred Qualifications:
- BA/BS or Associate degree in Computer Science or related field
- Experience in cable and/or telecommunications
- Experience writing code as a software developer
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