Location: Bellevue, WA
No. of Positions: 1
Length of Contract: 6 months (to start)
W2 Rate (all inclusive): $29.2-$33.58/hr
Only Candidates who are authorized to work in the US will be considered for this position.
Key Requirements
- Work closely with Solutions Architect to understand customer requirements and specifications and translate those needs into verification and/or implementation deliverables in order to deliver a solution to meet customer expectations.
- Load software, configure, integrate, verify and troubleshoot solutions in a lab environment or customer site using client’s products, 3rd party and/or customized packages.
- Provide ongoing customer support throughout the implementation process on existing solutions.
- Drive business with the customer by finding new Service Layer opportunities based on expanding existing solutions as well as creating new ones.
- Attend and participate in customer meetings for specific solutions.
- Provide SME guidance to and/or lead other BSS resources.
REQUIRED COMPETENCE:
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or acceptable equivalent.
- 5-7+ years’ experience working in software design and/or integration within the Telecommunications or IT space is required.
- Good understanding of Real-time Charging and Intelligent Network solutions (Prepaid) for a wireless carrier including concepts such as call-flows and related protocols, provisioning, replenishments, billing and rating.
- Excellent knowledge of UNIX O/S (Solaris, Linux) and Databases (Oracle, MySQL, SyBase) is required.
- Proven track record of at least 2 years of experience working in a direct customer-facing role in a technical role is required.
- Strong team leadership skills are a must.
HIGHLY DESIRED COMPETENCE:
- Previous hands-on experience with Amdocs, BSCS or other Billing system is highly desired and an added advantage to this position.
- Experience from a large-scale Transformation project is beneficial. Ability to understand and transmit knowledge in Work Order Management, Billing – Charging integration projects.
- Experience in full lifecycle of software development and/or system integration in OSS/BSS, SMS, MMS, IMS, SDP and Mobile Packet Core domains.
- Experience with design and deployment of a Convergent Charging/Billing Solution is an added advantage.
- Excellent knowledge of IP networking and Internet technologies (TCP/IP, CIP/IP, DNS, HTTP, Radius, Diameter). Experience with IPv6 is highly desired.
- Strong knowledge of XML, SNMP, Corba, LDAP, SOAP protocols is a plus.
- Good knowledge of Programming languages such as Java, C/C++, Perl, Unix Shell scripting is an advantage.
- Datacom experience is a plus.
