Description
Responsibilities:
- Understand technical requirements of a contracted SDP solution and engage customer to have overall agreement on the proposed solution.
- Owns the technical solution during the project phase.
- Do a feasibility study of the solution with customer meetings and matching customer requirements with contracted solution.
- Leading or supporting role in customer meetings and workshops to agree on the Requirement Specification, Solution Design, Detailed Design and Implementation Proposal, interfacing with internal product units and 3PP providers as well as producing the Project Design documentation.
- During the Solution Development, the Solution Architect is supposed to have a leading role in the Customer Adaptation and Product Customization definition process, in the interface and functionality agreements with 3PP and the setting up of local coding capabilities to enable a developed solution according to Customers Specification ready for Integration and Testing.
- Support the Project Managers by drilling down the solution into activities and providing effort estimates to make project budget.
- Responsible for assigning activities & review delivery progress with the Solution Integrators.
- Interface and communicate with customer about project technical deliverables till acceptance and handover to ELS.
- Act as Solution Life Cycle Manager of implemented solution.
- Proactive competence development of self in new solution areas in the domain & certifications.
- Ready to learn, transfer competence from other competent resources and take forward the solution in project phase.
- Ensure strict delivery as per contracted scope with proper change management.
Required expertise and experience:
- 8 - 12 years of experience with Architect skills for FUSE ESB development, integration and life cycle management.
- Experience in defining solutions for large scale, multi-tier, and Real Time systems.
- Hands on design and development experience in ESB and SOA technologies like FUSE ESB, Apache Camel, Active MQ, Apache Service Mix, Apache CXF.
- Hands on design and development experience in Java/J2EE technologies like Core Java, Web Services, JSP, Servlet, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, EJB, JMS and JMX.
- Hands on experience in application integration, deployment in Java/J2EE, FUSE, UNIX/Solaris, Linux, Oracle, MySQL, BEA Application Server IT environment.
- Experience in writing use case documents using UML, Rational Rose etc.
- Experience with SOA Architecture.
- Experience in defining solutions based on Ericsson as well as 3'rd party products.
- Experience or knowledge about hardware dimensioning, network architectures and IP planning.
- Excellent knowledge and skills in Communication
- Good knowledge and skills in Cultural Awareness
- Good knowledge and skills in Teamwork & Processes
Good to have (Optional):
- Experience in SDP delivery projects involving ParlayX standards, Service Creation environment, Native telecom protocols, and Charging/Billing Systems.
- Experience & Knowledge in Portal based solutions.
- Experience & Knowledge in Content Management systems.
- Able to lead initiatives and should possess a good knowledge of integration with provisioning & billing, SMSC, Streaming Server, WAP, MMSC, Parlay Gateway, Prepaid, AAA, Location server, OSS, MSC and other value added enablers like DRM, Transcoding. Single Sign-on.
- GSM knowledge and understand the e-TOM model for operators to work with their business logic.