Location: Thames valley, but the role may involve travel and periods of on-site work at UK and International customers.
The Organisation
Our Client has built an industry leading team to design and deliver leading edge OSS/BSS and IP network solutions for major telecommunications Service Providers and ISPs.
The Client is based in the UK and is positioned to provide services in the UK and internationally. The telecoms team has broad experience in the telecommunications sector supported by industry standard accreditations where appropriate. The Client has built a culture of delivering results with an ongoing commitment to quality; the aim is to ensure that solutions are recognised for both technical excellence and value.
Role Description
Interact with the customer to define and provide systems that enhance the customer’s competitive position. The solution architect plans, designs and supports the delivery of OSS/BSS based solutions OSS/BSS providing capacity, functionality, end-user services and the ability to improve and grow a customers business.
Provide technical leadership on IT projects, throughout the project life cycle. Architect and Design IT solutions to meet client requirements and ensure these are successfully implemented.
Provide consultancy on the future direction of Business, Operations and Enterprise solutions to existing and future customers.
Ensure that the integrity of the overall architecture is maintained through the use of appropriate controls and recommend architecture and design strategies in order to maximize revenue and minimize cost for a client.
Main Responsibilities
Work collaboratively with Customers, Project Managers, Solution Designers, Business Analysts, Development teams, testing and operational functions to ensure that solutions are technically viable and appropriately budgeted.
Review the Business Requirements Specifications and use cases. Design end to end IT solutions for projects, potentially integrating multiple systems ensuring that designs adhere to agreed design standards and methods.
Provide technical leadership on projects, managing subject matter experts and solution designers to ensure coherency of the end to end design whilst ensuring that technical dependencies are identified and managed throughout the project lifecycle.
Ensure that requirement compliancy to design is tracked through the project lifecycle through to deployment.
Manage the solution design throughout the project lifecycle through to deployment, ensuring that any defects are identified and resolved throughout the process.
Should technical changes be required ensure that proposed technical changes are assessed appropriately to ensure the impact and cost is fully understood.
Technical Skills (Essential)
10 to15 + years experience of performing an architecture and/or solution design role in a Telco organization.
10 to 15 + years experience working on OSS/BSS Implementations
10 + years experience providing end to end technical leadership for OSS/BSS projects.
Technical skills (Desirable)
7 + years experience of working within a large-scale Telecom/IT environment, ideally an operator/supplier of fixed and/or mobile equipment.
Awareness/Appreciation of Telecom fixed/mobile Operator Systems specifically Service Assurance, Trouble ticketing, Work Force Management, Network Planning and Design Systems, Inventory, and network Fault and performance management solutions.
Awareness/Appreciation of Telecom fixed/Mobile Operator networks including Optical, Radio and wireless.
Experience of working on distributed IT solutions.
Experience of business Transformation projects
Other Skills
Excellent written and oral communications
Ability to capture and analyze complex and high level requirements and develop appropriate solution options and strategies
Able to estimate the level of effort required to develop potential solutions
Self managing, with a flexible and positive attitude to challenging requirements
Able to integrate with and build excellent customer relationships
Able to work to tight deadlines and manage critical project scope
Qualifications
Experience is most important in addition ideally the candidate should be educated to degree level in Telecoms, IT, Computer Science or other similar subject.
