Solution Architect

Job Description

Job Title : Solution Architect
Job Type : Contractual

Experience : 10+ Years
Duties and Responsibilities:

· Able to serve as the subject matter expert for the architectures of:
o Next Generation Telecom BSS Products
o Technology trends and selection
o Competitive approaches
· Own product architecture, API specifications, & domain data modeling of various product components
· Work closely with customers to understand their requirements and propose Mavenir’s product-based solutions to meet customer expectations
· Translate customer requirements, key product use scenarios, and use cases to detailed functional specifications that can be delivered by development teams
· Collaborate with Product Management, System Engineering managers, other product architects, Sales Solution Architects and Development team leads to evolve the product architecture, resolve key dependencies, mitigate risk, and ensure features are successfully brought through the feature lifecycle with sufficient quality while addressing business requirements and care for Mavenir Digital Enablement product design values of simplicity and performance.
· Own the documentation of the product architecture for both internal and external consumption
· Build Mavenir's knowledge and skills for the product and domain.

· Respond to customer RFPs, RFQs and RFIs
· Support the global business development, sales and account teams with knowledge on BSS systems, best-practices and attend meetings with customers
· Find new business opportunities based on expanding existing customer solutions as well as creating new ones.
 

Skills and Qualifications:

Basic:

· 10+ years of experience in building high volume transactional software product.
· Ability to communicate effectively, both written and verbal, with customers as well as technical and non-technical cross-functional teams.
· Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant industry experience required.

Preferred:

· 10+ years of experience working in software design and/or integration within Telecom BSS product domain.
· Experience in specific Telecom domains such as Billing, Charging, Mediation and Product Catalog.
· Display a high degree of willingness and ability to understand a new business domain, a new product, the product's business, and technical underpinnings.
· Proficiencies should include demonstrated ability to effectively engage with Engineering, Sales, Professional Services and Support.
· Proven experience in building and driving execution on large complex projects and ability to show assertiveness and influence in pushing through thoughts and opinions backed by facts and evidence.
· Experience in working closely with customers and understanding the customer needs
· Strong customer-first approach with ability to balance business needs versus customer requirements to deliver an optimized experience.
· Product design experience for cloud-scale enterprise software deployed globally and run 24x7 as a service.
· A foundation in Software Engineering is helpful especially developer experience and should be comfortable with a general-purpose programming language (JavaScript, Python, Java, etc).
· An intense interest in innovation and new solutions within the identity industry and ability to comprehend their likely impact.