Solutions Architect – Telecoms

Job Responsibilities

• Have a high level of focus on CI/CD, containerization technologies and have a DevOps mindset
• Take business requirements from product management and deliver user stories, technical engineering requirements and software system designs
• Work with stakeholders to identify the underlying business problems and deliver an agreed set of coherent user stories that solves the problem
• Identify and quantify missing non-functional requirements (availability, scalability, performance, operability, serviceability)
• Preparing and communicating designs that meet non-functional requirements efficiently
• Define architectural direction and make key technical decisions for the product
• Researching, prototyping and selecting new technologies and designs
• Work with development teams on designs to ensure a common understanding of customer requirements
• Assist in budgeting and planning process with technical development strategy, high level designs and estimates
• Leading (hands on) development of new products and features
• Contribute to and review customer deployment and solution architectures, review proposals and designs for feasibility
• Provide technical support to Product Management and Technical Sales
• Assist other parts of the business (product management, sales, services) with customer facing meetings related to new products and technology changes
• Design solutions to implement 3GPP and other telecommunications standards and protocols

Experience Required

• You will have proven capability in functional programming, reactive design patterns and programming frameworks
• You will have worked in an lead developer role previously
• An in-depth understanding of test frameworks for writing unit, integration, systems and performance tests is a must
• Design experience in multi-threaded Java systems, implementation experience as well as the ability to understand and troubleshoot complex asynchronous parallel flows
• Demonstrable knowledge of design patterns associated with a microservices architecture is crucial
• Experience in Telecoms solution architecture and in particular in core network components such as Policy & Charging Control would be an added bonus
• Excellent communication, both oral and written to communicative technical concepts and designs

Essential and Desirable Skills

• Previous experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams
• Strong hands on technical skills – Java , REST
• Development frameworks such as OSGi, Vert.x, Spring Boot,
• Asynchronous technologies and design patterns – RxJava and Lambda expressions
• Python and Javascript programming experience
• Familiar with cloud native technologies and building DevOps pipelines – Kubernetes, Jenkins, Spinnaker, Harbor, Nexus Sonatype, Helm, etc
• Experience with performance profiling tools, such as Yourkit and Flight Recorder.
• Had knowledge of persistence models such as RDBMS and NoSQL  and technologies such as Elasticsearch, Rocks DB, Cassandra.
• Had knowledge of security protocols such as (TLS, OAUTH2, OpenId Connect, JWT)
• Scalable and high-performance system design.
• Design methodologies (domain driven design), microservice design, REST API design
• Telecommunications standards and related protocols (3GPP standards, Diameter, SBI, LDAP, TCP)
• Big data technologies would be an added advantage

Educational Requirements

• Relevant Computer Science, Engineering or Information Technology or equivalent degree

Working Hours & Benefits

• 37.5 hours per week
• Flexible work hours
• Bonuses up to 12%
• Pension Scheme- 5% employee and 5% employer contribution
• Life Assurance- 4 x salary
• Permanent Health Insurance- which kicks in after 26 weeks
• Healthcare Scheme- Laya Healthcare- Simply Connect Plus plan which covers yourself
• Annual Leave- 21 days rising to 26
• Fruit Mornings & Wednesday Breakfast mornings
• Annual Tax Saver Travel Ticket
• Cycle to Work scheme