Network Architect

Description

Position: Solution Designer

Location: Mount Laurel NJ or Philadelphia PA

Job Summary:

This position will be responsible for Solution Design and architecture of lifecycle management of Commercial services integration and architecture framework for the client products. The integration domain will consist of multiple platforms and services related to Commercial Business and Operations Support Systems including Fulfillment Provisioning activation etc. Assurance and Support. The candidate will manage the integration architecture and design of complex web/cloud based hosted applications that interact with various processes data and services layers and ensure a clear and consistent architecture is developed for network service lifecycle management and network orchestration. The candidate will be responsible for functional and technical designs and architecture to address current and future needs of the business. The candidate will assume primary lead and liaison for all functional and technical matters related to the network orchestration and integration services platform. The candidate will work closely with product owners business analysts other component and solution architects vendors and customers to define the current and future roadmap of network orchestration and integration services platform as well as establishing and enforcing best practices for the network integration domain. The candidate must demonstrate expertise and thought leadership in the systems/network integration and network orchestration domains.

Major Duties

Architect and design extensible and maintain commercial network orchestration and integration framework to cater the current and future needs of Commercial business needs.

Design solutions leveraging the commercial integration framework to realize the specific needs of projects and programs.

Define E2E solutions spanning entire service lifecycle.

Provide Solution evaluation and design for Network Orchestration system identification and integration into the ecosystem

Provide Solution design for products Waves Ethernet Direct2Cloud connectivity etc. integration with existing systems and vendors to include new technology deployments network infrastructure enhancements and Vendor onboarding and integration

Provide Network Orchestration architecture and design for automation systems enhancements to introduce new product feature implementation support including network config management.

Provide architecture level support for overall data structure and service modelling

Leverage Enterprise SOA principles to design solutions involving microservices orchestration driven flows that integrate with multiple distributed applications and core network.

Collaborate with business requirements and architecture teams to analyze business and system requirements.

Architect and develop prototypes for new concepts and technology roadmaps that would eventually be used by the development teams.

Develop functional designs including Use Cases by interacting with Business Partners as well as end users.

Create conceptual and concrete service xml/json and data models for application and database interactions.

Adopt agile methodology using tools like Rally Dev.

Perform other technical duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field.

Must have skills and experience

7 yrs experience as an architect/designer with a product engineering context in Telecom/Cable Industry.

Full life-cycle development in an enterprise development environment

Should have excellent communication negotiation decision making and problem solving skills.

Must be a team player.

Must have can do /will do attitude

Desired skills and experience

Experience with Architect tools

Experience designing and developing applications.

Development using relational database or OpenSQL databases.

Ability to create cost-estimates and software/system development Business Cases

Experience with Voice / Data Wavelength Ethernet SDWAN services / Video / Wireless technology

Experience with CRM tools Order management tools and network automation and management tools

Experience and/or exposure architecting Cloud based solutions

Experience and/or exposure to architecture frameworks like TOGAF