Solution Architect

**Job ID**:192424
**Required Travel**: Minimal
**Managerial - No**
**Location**:India
- Pune (Amdocs Site)**

**Who are we?**:
Amdocs helps those who build the future to make it amazing. With our market-leading portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our customers’ innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers. Our approximately 30,000 employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers’ migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $4.89 billion in fiscal 2023.

**In one sentence**:
We are seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect to join our OSS Professional Services team. This individual will be responsible for driving Proof of Concepts (POCs) and projects involving OSS Network Orchestration across various Telecom Networks - Fixed Line, Wireless, SDWAN, SDN-based networks, VNFs, CNFs and 5G Networks.

**What will your job look like?**:

- Present the product functionality in detail to project stakeholders and partner teams and be able to explain how the product is able to address both technical and business problems.
- Conduct product demonstrations at Project Milestones, gather feedback and work as customer point of contact for delivery of features.
- Provide input to Services Estimation and associated Statement of Work (SOW), understanding how the product can be configured through supporting services.
- Be a technical resource for product questions and assist in the documentation of product capability for partners and others.
- Provide product improvement and roadmap feedback to Product Management.
- Serve as Solution architect focal for a Project to gather the network automation requirements, craft solutions, create HLD and LLD and translate the requirements to user stories In JIRA.
- Serve as Product owner throughout the Development lifecycle of the project.
- Responsible for building Interfaces and defining Integration IDD with external systems - Assurance, SDN, Transport orchestrator and EMS.
- Lead POCs and projects involving network automation.

**All you need is...**:

- Minimum 5-8 years in a pre-sales or project delivery role within the OSS platform industry.
- Over 8 years’ experience of telecommunication networking technologies including; WAN’s, LANs, Wireless, VNFs, CNFs and network infrastructure technologies
- Excellent interpersonal verbal and written communications skills
- The ability to provide compelling live product demonstrations
- Experience scoping and managing customer product evaluations
- Proven organizational and problem-solving skills, including the ability to meet a business requirement with a technical solution, even in stressful customer situations.
- Experience in designing and Implementing Architectures using Telecom Standards for OSS - TMF, 3GPP etc
- Knowledge of at least one cloud technology vendor - AWS, Azure, GCP etc
- Experience in the creation of Solution Requirement documents as part of an OSS deployment project.
- Experience working as Solution Architect/Product owner for large Scrum teams in a Project.
- Ability to work independently as this is an individual contributor role.
- Must have OSS experience with either a Software or a Network background.

**Good to Have Skills**:

- Experience with Python, Jinja, and Ansible for driving automation.
- Well versed with Router, Switches Yang model onboarding and driving YIN templates and testing for same.
- Strong knowledge of at least VNF/CNF Virtualization technologies
- Strong knowledge in 5G Slicing and expertise in any of the Domain - RAN,Core and Transport.

**Why you will love this job**:

- You will be challenged with crafting high-level design while setting technical standards.
- You will have the opportunity to work with the industry most sophisticated technologies
- Evolve yourself in the future and lead all aspects of a suite of products, develop a high-level design that connects several (heterogeneous) sub-systems, which together make up a whole system.
- We are a dynamic, multi-cultural organization that constantly innovates and empowers our employees to grow. Our people our passionate, daring, and phenomenal teammates that stand by each other with a dedication to creating a diverse, inclusive workplace
- We offer a wide range of stellar benefits including health, dental, vision, and life insurance as well as paid time off, sick time, and parental leave

**Amdocs is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce