OSS/BSS Architect bei Excelacom

OSS/BSS Architect

Reston, VA

Who We Are:

Excelacom has a global presence in the consulting and technology solutions industry with a focus on Communications and Media providers. We collaborate with our clients to solve their complex business, technology and operational challenges through a combination of consulting expertise and telecom-focused solutions and products. Excelacom provides extensive experience in product development, IT consulting, telecom-focused software and managed services, as well as strategic management and thought leadership to steer our clients towards a successful business and technology transformation.

At Excelacom, we recognize that our most valuable asset is our people. We strive to create an environment where our employees can contribute their unique perspectives and grow individually and collectively. Our diverse and inclusive culture empowers our people to embrace their ideas and transform them into innovative solutions.

Who You Are:

At the Consultant-level, you will be expected to independently contribute ideas, recommendations, and solutions toward solving business challenges, construct key components of deliverables/presentations, and contribute to the development of Intellectual Capital (IC) and Marketing Collateral. You will serve as a team leader for individual work streams and acquire a comprehensive understanding of the firm’s expertise, product set, and capabilities. Most importantly, you will embrace our firm’s brand and core values.

Role and Responsibilities:

You may work on various projects throughout your career with Excelacom. The roles and responsibilities noted below pertain to the specific role listed above.

• Decompose key business problems to identify value areas and structure and implement complex technology solutions for the client.
• Create innovative and differentiated offerings, staying relevant and in sync with market demand and technology evolution.
• Deliver advisory services to Senior Management and above in support of technology-enabled business changes.
• Manage and Deliver technology projects including application development, integration, data migration, testing, etc. for IT organizations.
• Meet with client staff on a daily basis to understand key issues with how they operate today and identify opportunities for improvement in their operations and technology landscape.
• Leveraging Excelacom’s domestic and international assets and expertise to bring new ideas to clients.
• Supporting the development of improved capabilities in clients across business processes, people and technology.
• Developing business cases and implementation roadmaps to support investment decisions.
• Providing project management and change management support on large- or small-scale transformation projects.
• Identify and qualify additional business opportunities
• Prepare solutions and proposals and present to clients
• Define architecture and solution designs for business needs within the context of existing OSS/ BSS suite mostly but would need to identify approaches to gaps in existing OSS/ BSS applications.
• Conduct Impact analysis and feasibility study for various solution approaches and deliver recommendations to the Enterprise Architect and IT development teams.
• Recommend technology stack or review vendor solutions to ensure the fitment of solutions to business requirements.
• Elaboration and documentation of features and functional user stories according to schedule.
• Provide guidance to the development partner and conduct architectural conformance for delivered applications or software.
• Liaise with Product Management, Operations, IT, and other stakeholders to help formulate a solution
• Analyze business, functional, technical, and user interface requirements of the product release cycle and lead the design and development of OSS/BSS architecture.
• Collaborate with sales teams, product managers, and IT Architects to deliver high-level IT Architecture and roadmap for solutions and development projects.
• Conduct gap analysis between the target and current status in terms of product capabilities; business process measures and recommend innovative and effective ways of delivering or achieving the same.
• Participate in the IT Architecture team sessions for building and maintaining the architectural application runway.
• Understand and communicate overall IT architecture vision and other key business drivers for an application architecture to System Architects, developers and non-technical stakeholders.
• Identify and implement common application modeling, design, and coding practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science or related field
• Prior consulting experience –in an agile environment – with a leading strategy firm, consulting practice, or consulting technology firm
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Highly collaborative, team-oriented with strong stakeholder management skills
• Ability to lead project working groups and possesses strong facilitation and data gathering skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to interact with technical and non-technical personnel
• 5+ years of design and development in the OSS/BSS space around CPQ, Order Management, and provisioning for Enterprise portfolio
• Mobile experience
• Experience creating and documenting user stories
• Highly skillful in OSS system architecture, designs, specifications, system testing and system users training and adoption in carrier Ethernet service provisioning, design, and configuration.
• Deep knowledge and experienced in networks, devices, services modeling and automation with middleware knowledge in OSS systems
• Full Lifecycle Telecom/Mobile/Cable Billing System experience and experience with associated integrations to legacy Billing systems.
• Experience with full software-development lifecycle - understanding and appreciation of the inception, design, construction, deployment and management aspects of a solution.
• Should have experience in translating high-level business ask into solution architectures through required visual and documentation techniques.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Past success in generating new business with existing clients
• Good time management skills

Compensation and Benefits:

Our competitive salaries are just one component of Excelacom’s total compensation package for our regular full-time employees. Other rewards and benefits include: health, vision, and dental insurance, ancillary benefits, Life and AD&D insurance, 401k, and generous paid time off policies.

EEO Statement:

Excelacom, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.  Any decision affecting employment, compensation, promotion, or transfer will be based solely on personal qualifications and merit, regardless of sex, race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, disability, age, results of genetic testing, service in the military, pregnancy, childbirth or other related medical conditions or any other factor protected under applicable law. #LI-JH1