Communications Industry Solutions Architect - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Oracle

Oracle

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

1 week ago

Posted by:

Ahmed Al-Mansouri

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Description

Communications Industry Solutions Architect G

Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages: English

Preferred Qualifications

Experience level:

10+ yrs of solutions architecture, business requirements capture, IT demand & lifecycle management experience, including leadership role in customerfacing architecture and technical scoping activities, across the full engagement lifecycle, from presales (project scoping/costing) and postsales (project delivery, customer enablement & live operation) roles. Experience including responsibility for combined BSS (CRM, billing) & OSS (order management) programme scoping & architecture deliverables.

Responsibilities:

Scoping & delivering large solution implementations for Communications Service Providers.
Practical understanding of industry standards & best practices along with a pragmatic approach to business, organisational & IT change management.
Should be able to manage customer expectations of project scope, stakeholder roles and responsibilities and the change management process.
As an Enterprise & Solutions Architect, you will engage with senior business and IT stakeholders, understand and capture their business needs and work with Oracle sales & delivery team colleagues to define matching solution deliverables.
Engage in presales activities, including customer workshops & RFx responses.
Provide Solution Architecture & Design governance & leadership across the full programme engagement lifecycle.
Lead solution scoping, architecture & design activities in combined BSS & OSS engagements
Should be able to build trust and consensus among the stakeholders.
Act as a strong advocate of the Oracle solution, while also championing the delivery of true businessdifferentiating capabilities.
Communicate effectively with the IT implementation teams (customer, Oracle, implementation partners), bringing a strong technology background.
Work in a distributed Consulting project team, will have to combine a high degree of selfsufficiency with the ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues and customers in countries across the globe.
Act as a strong advocate of the Oracle solution, while also championing the delivery of true businessdifferentiating capabilities.
To engage at Clevel, but also support and mentor less experienced members of the team.

Key Skills & Experience required:

A strong understanding of telecoms IT architecture, specifically service & network orchestration, inventory and assurance architecture (preferably Oracle OSM, UIM, Assurance), across multiple implementation projects & phases.
Strong knowledge of the network domain architecture & technologies such as MPLS, VPLS, VPN, VLL, Optical circuit, DSL, VoIP and use of protocols such as SNMP, TL1, CORBA.
Team leadership combining onsite/remote project activities and acting as coach/mentor to more junior team members.
Strong customerfacing domain skills should be able to drive endtoend BSS+OSS architecture and OSS solutionrelated workshops with the customer.
Strong understanding of telecoms fixed/wireline & mobile networks for both consumer and enterprise/business segments architecture and touchpoints with network and other IT systems.
Experience of industry models & standards, including TM Forum SID & ODA.
Experience of industry standard business processes, regional/local legal, regulatory & cultural best practices & constraints.
Experience of participating in business development activities.

Preferred Functional/Technical Skills:

Proficiency using Enterprise Architecture tools and methods to capture business requirements, designs, test case development, use case documentation.
Experience working in waterfall, Agile/Scrum or iterative model projects.
Previous technical background including programming & scripting skills (C, C++, Java, python) and experience working with RDBMS.
Understanding of Cloud Native tools, technologies and framework.

Detailed Description and Job Requirements

As a recognized authority and leading contributor within their practice, this senior-level consulting position provides consistent high quality and innovative solution leadership to a project team.

Leads the solution design and implementation aspects of engagement(s) ensuring high quality, integrated software solutions within constraints of time and budget.

8-10 years of experience relevant to this position including 4 years of consulting experience. Prior team leadership or management experience preferred. Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience preferred. Product or technical expertise relevant to practice focus. Ability to communicate effectively. Ability to build rapport with team members and clients. Strong influencing and negotiation skills. Ability to travel as needed.

Job:
Consulting

Travel:
Yes, 50 % of the Time

Location:
AE-AE,UAE-Dubai

Job Type:
Regular Empl