Description
Role: Solution Architect/Pre-sale Consultant
Location- Madrid, Spain
Rate: Neg
Duration: Long term contract
Start date: ASAP
Required:
At least 12+ years of IT experience.
At least 15+ years of experience in Telecom areas.
Lead Architect/Pre Sales exp preferred
Skills/technologies required:
Transformation IT Strategy, Consulting, Architecture & Solutioning.
Innovations & Emerging Trends in the Telecom world.
Strong experience in the BSS/OSS Telco domain. Conversant with Solutioning, Pre Sales cutting across areas like Infrastructure, Application support, business process management, Security, VAS, Network, BPO
Communication skills at CXO level as well as at conceptual levels, ie towards Architects, Business representatives and Steering Committee members.
Strong capability to research and develop new solutions to meet business requirements
Knowledge of various COTS product options for key Architectural domains (Best of the Breed/Tier 2 etc).
Awareness and appreciation of various TMF frameworks such as eTOM, TAM, SID etc.
Strong leadership skills, relationship building.
OSS/BSS Architecture Transformation and Transition experience.
Must have performed customer facing role at CXO level.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Lead on Solutioning and Pre-Sales for RFP/RFI responses.
Farming/Hunting existing accounts in the region to explore new opportunities.
Advise operators on how to improve their cycle time to launch products or resolve Customer Service Experience Issues.
Work with the account team and work out overall winning solution for the bids/pro-active propositions.
Develop strategies for services improvement, carve out the technicalities & roadmap for end to end delivery of B/OSS systems and change initiatives.
Advise operators on new growth areas such as Enterprise Mobility, M2M, Big Data Analytics, Real Time Business Intelligence and to save operational expenses through Shared services & Managed Services model
Lead, run and manage mega RFPs individually.
Conversant with the software processes and methodologies (Agile, scrum etc)
Proactive engage and suggest ideas/improvements around IT Simplification, impacts from digital technologies, Shared services etc.
Manage Consulting Engagements to develop strategies for services improvement, carve out the technicalities & roadmap for end to end delivery of B/OSS systems and change initiatives.