Position Overview & Specifications
Solution Architect
Our client is looking for a highly motivated, passionate and innovative technologist to join their team as a Solution Architect within their Telecoms practice. The successful candidate will be responsible for the end to end architecture and technical delivery of Big Data and analytics solutions delivered to mobile and fixed line telecoms clients, delivered using their best-in-class products
The company
They are a dynamic and exciting company that started up 5 years ago. They have some of the largest names in Telecoms as their clients and they continue to innovate with their products - not only to keep them ahead of their competition but to create industry best and technology direction, as well as thought leadership.
They specialise and are a leader in Big Data, Analytics, and Machine Learning, with award-winning solutions that transform their clients' operations.
The company continues to grow, and this role represents an excellent opportunity to join a successful and ambitious team that strives to over achieve.
About You
You will need to be a self starter, committed to delivering high quality solutions to their demanding customers, dealing with a range of technical and commercial stakeholders and a technology obsessive - keeping abreast of and evaluating relevant new technologies. It goes without saying that great interpersonal, written and oral communication skills are a must. The A willingness to take ownership of solutions, issues and see them through to conclusion is required.
The successful candidate will possess the following skills:
Essential
- Batchelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering or related/equivalent
- At least 10 years’ experience in a technical solution/architect role with exposure to telco and analytics, in both vendor/operator environments
- Solid knowledge and experience of ETL, Data Integration and Data Warehousing concepts
- Demonstrable experience of leading and delivering large complex projects covering a range of technologies, domains and functions
- Experience of developing and maintaining architectural and design documentation (HLD, LLD, etc)
- Extensive experience of requirements analysis and development of these into technical solutions
- Knowledge of telecoms signalling protocols covering mobile RAN, Packet/Voice Core
- Strong analytical capabilities
- Linux experience
- A creative and analytical approach to problem solving
- Ability to work in a pressurised, fast passed and agile environment
Highly desirable
- Knowledge of Telecoms Networks networks
- Solid knowledge of database systems and query tools
- KPI design and implementation
- Understanding of data science, machine learning and AI concepts
- Experience of delivering projects in on-Premise and Cloud environments
- Knowledge of containerisation technologies (eg Kubernetes, Docker)
- Knowledge of some or all of the following technologies – Hadoop, Kafka, MapReduce, Hive, Redis, MongoDB, Elastic
- Knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL architectures and platforms
- Experience of data visualisation tools (eg Kibana, Tableau)
- TCP/P and networking knowledge
- Development experience (eg Python, Spark, Java, R, SQL etc)