Engineer 5, Product Development Engineering

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Job Summary

Job Summary This candidate will be responsible to design E2E solutions for Systems/Network integration domain supporting Product development engineering initiatives, building E2E systems/network integration solutions and support full product lifecycle implementations. This candidate will serve as key bridge and E2E network integration expert/liaison spanning core backbone, fiber/HFC network, network facing platforms and OSS/BSS applications. This resource will look at the Comcast Connectivity product services systems and network stack holistically and not only drive the systems to network integration efforts working alongside with new product/feature development but also drive the network facing platform feature enhancements such as network inventory representation, lifecycle management, network service fulfillment automation from activation thru assurance. The candidate will be responsible for functional and technical designs and architecture to address current and future needs of the business. The candidate will work closely with product owners, business analysts, other component and solution architects, vendors, and customers to define the current and future roadmap of Comcast Business Services products as well as establishing and enforcing best practices for the network integration domain. The candidate must demonstrate expertise and thought leadership in the systems/network integration and network orchestration domains.

Job Description

Core Responsibilities

• Architect and design extensible and maintain commercial E2E network solutions to cater the current and future needs of Commercial business needs.

• Design solutions leveraging the commercial integration framework to realize the specific needs of projects and programs.

• Experience in defining technology architectures to rollout products across enterprise technology stacks and platforms

• Define E2E solutions spanning entire product lifecycle.

• Provide Solution design for Comcast B4B Connectivity products integration with existing enterprise platforms and vendors to include new technology deployments (EVPN), network infrastructure enhancements (Next Gen CRAN architectures), and Vendor onboarding and integration (Nokia, Cisco, Ciena, etc…)

• Provide architecture level support for overall data structure and service modelling for Connectivity products leveraging TOSCA, YANG, XML, Velocity, Freemarker, JINJA2, YAML etc…

• Leverage Enterprise SOA principles to design solutions involving microservices, orchestration driven flows that integrate with multiple distributed applications and Comcast core network.

• Collaborate with business, requirements and architecture teams to analyze business and system requirements.

• Architect and develop prototypes for new concepts and technology roadmaps that would eventually be used by the development teams.

• Develop functional designs including Use Cases by interacting with Business Partners as well as end users.

• Create conceptual and concrete service, and data models for application and database interactions.

• Ability to analyze data (using SQL, OpenSQL, relational, big data structures) and derive key insights that drives product analytics and product observability

• Adopt agile methodology using tools like Rally Dev, JIRA

• Perform other technical duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field.

• Must have skills and experience

• 6+ yrs experience in Software Development, with 3+ yrs. experience as an architect/designer with a product engineering context.

• 3 + years experience using service Modeling tools like RSA, Visio, Enterprise Architect etc.

• 3+ years of experience in Telecom/Cable industry

• 2+ years of experience in Telecom's OSS/BSS/Network orchestration applications.

• 4+ yrs experience in Business Analysis and Requirement Analysis, as well as demonstrated ability to solve end customer problems.

• Full life-cycle development in an enterprise development environment

• Should have excellent communication, negotiation, decision making, and problem solving skills.

• Must be a team player.

• Must have "can do" /"will do" attitude

• Desired skills and experience

• Experience with Architect tools

• Understanding of Connectivity product offerings and technologies such as Ethernet, Broadband, Wavelength Services, MPLS, IPVPN is a plus

• Experience designing and developing applications using open-source frameworks, with a mix and match (best of breed) COTS products.

• Experience leveraging relational database or GraphQL, OpenSQL databases.

• Ability to create cost-estimates and software/system development Business Cases

• Experience with Voice / Data (Wavelength, Ethernet, SDWAN services) / Video / Wireless / Fiber Optic technologies

• Experience with CRM tools, Order management tools and network automation management tools

• Experience and/or exposure architecting Cloud based solutions

• Experience and/or exposure to architecture frameworks like TOGAF

• Understanding of AI frameworks and applying AI models to real world use cases is a plus

Disclaimer:

• This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.

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Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

10 Years +