Solution Specialist
Job Position Summary Description:
We’re seeking candidates with very solid technical background in intelligent networks and online charging systems, with the ability to ensure customer's success in system planning, integration and architecture in native and cloud environment. You will be expected to consult our customer on the best possible solution to address their business needs and then participate with a team of other experts in the entire lifecycle of the project for professional services of OCS from design to go-live and beyond.
Key Responsibilities / Functions:
Delivers product attached services with sound technical, business and professional standards while ensuring strong customer satisfaction and success in deployment of Nokia OCS (Surepay & Smart Plan Suite)
Provides technical design, integration expertise and support to customer implementations and deployments.
Helps ensure that Professional Services revenue is realized and that projects are completed on time and on budget.
Protects and enhances Company’s excellent service reputation.
Helps scope projects and write statements of work, acceptance test and method of procedures.
Schedules and delivers delivery on time with minimal defects.
Researches and follows up on technical issues related to projects; informs, communicates and trains associates.
Involvement in Nokia OCS (Surepay and Smart Plan Suite SPS) Field Trials, PoC and demos
Required Qualifications: (Education, Technical Skills/Knowledge)
Bachelor or Master degree in CSE/ECE/EEE/EI/IT
- 7+ years software consulting experience for customers including direct customer contact
- Knowledge and experience with the professional services project lifecycle (scoping, requirements, construction, QA/test)
- 5+ years of experience in at least five of the following domains Surepay (OCS), Smart Plan Suite (SPS), SS7, Sigtran, INAP, CAMEL, TCAP, Diameter, SOAP, CORBA, XML, SOAP, Linux, Oracle, Aerospike , PSQL , Shell scripting , Yaml, Ansible , Mistral workflows
- Experience in online charging concepts of online offline rating, charging , discounts , tariffs ,promotions, bundles and buckets.
- Experience in 3GPP diameter charging interfaces like Sy, Gy, Ro
- Experience in following domains 3GPP LTE GPRS, ETSI NFV MANO architectures
- Strong written and verbal communications skills
- Ability to learn and integrate new technologies in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to travel up to 50% internationally
- Ability to analyze technical problems around product installation/configuration/integration/test
- Hands-on system integration skills
- Experience in deployment in Cloud environment like VMware vCloud director , openstack or cloudband with certification would have added advantage
- Knowledge of Nokia Middlewares like MAS, MCAS, eSM, CSF would have added advantage
- Knowledge of DevOps methodology with tools like Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira and microservices architecture would have added advantage
- Knowledge of 5g architecture would be given preference
Nokia is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer including women, minorities, veterans, and individuals with disabilities
