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.

Analyzes business needs to help ensure Oracle solution meets the customer\xe2\x80\x99s objectives by combining industry best practices, product knowledge, and business acumen. Exercises judgment and business acumen in selecting methods and techniques to deliver functional and technical solutions on non-routine and very complex aspects of applications and technology installations. Provides direction and mentoring to project teams, and effectively influences customer leadership on key decisions. Supports the business development efforts by pursuing new opportunities and extensions. Collaborates with the consulting sales team by providing domain expertise. Resolves complex customer issues by recommending and implementing solutions. Demonstrates expertise in multiple business processes across two or more product families or ability to architect and design technology solutions encompassing multiple products and make decisions based on impact across the stack.

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.

As part of Oracle\'s employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).

Qualifications

Experience level

• 15+ yrs telecoms industry experience with various Operational Support Systems and network-facing IT knowledge, across fixed/wireline & mobile networks for both consumer and enterprise/business segments. Preferably including hands-on implementation experience with Oracle\xe2\x80\x99s Order & Service Management (OSM) & Unified Inventory (UIM) or Unified Assurance (Assure1) applications.
• 10+ yrs of solutions architecture, business requirements capture, IT demand & lifecycle management experience, including leadership role in customer-facing architecture and technical scoping activities, across the full engagement lifecycle, from pre-sales (project scoping/costing) and post-sales (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 pre-sales activities, including customer workshops & RFx responses.
• Maximize the use of standard Oracle application processes & capabilities.
• 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 business-differentiating 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 self-sufficiency 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 business-differentiating capabilities.
• To engage at C-level, 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.
• Project delivery experience across full lifecycle, including business & application architecture, design, implementation, testing, migration, project governance & change management.
• Team leadership combining onsite/remote project activities and acting as coach/mentor to more junior team members.
• Strong customer-facing domain skills - should be able to drive end-to-end BSS+OSS architecture and OSS solution-related 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 modern application integration paradigms, OpenAPI & REST architecture style.
• Understanding of Cloud Native tools, technologies and framework.

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