Experience level

• 10+ yrs telecoms industry experience with various Business Support Systems, Operation Support Systems and financial domain knowledge, preferably working with Oracle’s Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) application.
• 10+ yrs of business requirements capture, IT demand & lifecycle management experience

    Responsabilities

• Scoping & delivering large solution implementations for Communications Service Providers.
• Practical understanding of industry standards & best practices along with a pragmatic approach to business & IT change management.
• Should be able to manage customer expectations of project scope, stakeholder roles and responsibilities and the change management process.
• As a Telco Architect you will engage with senior business and IT stakeholders, understand and capture their business needs and work with Oracle delivery team colleagues to define matching solution deliverables.
• Maximize the use of standard Oracle BRM application processes & capabilities.
• Should be able to build trust and consensus among the stakeholders
• Act as a strong advocate of the Oracle solution, while also championing the delivery of true business-differentiating capabilities.
• Need a technology background, to enable you to communicate effectively with the IT implementation teams (customer, Oracle, implementation partners).
• Work in a distributed Consulting project team, will have to combine a high degree of self-sufficiency with the ability to collaborate effectively with colleagues and customers in countries across the globe.
• Act as a strong advocate of the Oracle solution, while also championing the delivery of true business-differentiating capabilities.
• To engage at C-level, but also support and mentor less experienced members of the team.

Mandatory skills

• A strong understanding of telecoms IT architecture, specifically billing & charging architecture (preferably Oracle BRM, Elastic Charging), across multiple implementation projects & phases.
• Project delivery experience across full lifecycle, including business & application architecture, design, implementation, testing, migration, project governance & change management.
• Team leadership combining onsite/remote project activities and acting as coach/mentor to more junior team members.
• Strong customer-facing domain skills - should be able to drive billing/charging-related workshops with the customer.
• Strong understanding of telecoms prepaid/postpay/convergent billing & charging architecture and associated integrations (mediation, voucher management, G/L, A/R, taxation integrations).
• Strong understanding of Product catalog modelling, including rate plan configuration
• Experience of industry models & standards, including TM Forum ODA, 3GPP Charging Management specification, Diameter protocol, IFRS and other regulatory policies
• Experience of industry standard business processes, regional/local legal, regulatory & cultural best practices & constraints.
• Experience of participating in business development activities.
• In depth knowledge of BRM modules like Account Management, Pricing, Rating, Billing & Invoicing and Customer Management.
• Willingness to travel as needed.

Desirable Functional/Technical Skills

• Proficiency using Enterprise Architecture tools and methods to capture business requirements, designs, test case development, use case documentation.
• Experience working in waterfall, Agile/Scrum or iterative model projects and flexibility to work in a DevOps environment.
• Previous technical background including programming & scripting skills (C, C++, Java, python) and experience working with RDBMS.
• Understanding of modern application integration paradigms, REST architecture style
• Understanding of Cloud Native tools, technologies and framework.

An experienced consulting professional who has a broad understanding of solutions, industry best practices, multiple business processes or technology designs within a product/technology family. Operates independently to provide quality work products to an engagement. Performs varied and complex duties and tasks that need independent judgment, in order to implement Oracle products and technology to meet customer needs. Applies Oracle methodology, company procedures, and leading practices.

Operates independently to provide quality work products to an engagement. Performs varied and complex duties and tasks that need independent judgment, in order to implement Oracle products and technology to meet customer needs. Applies Oracle methodology, company procedures, and leading practices. Demonstrates expertise to deliver functional and technical solutions on moderately complex customer engagements. May lead the solution design and implementation aspects of engagement(s) ensuring high quality, integrated software solutions within constraints of time and budget. May act as the team lead on projects, providing coaching, guidance and feedback to develop skills of team members. Effectively consults with management of customer organizations. Participates in business development activities. Develops and leads detailed solutions for moderately complex projects.

6-8 years of experience relevant to this position including 3-4 years consulting experience preferred. Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience preferred. Product or technical expertise relevant to practice focus. Ability to communicate effectively. Ability to build rapport with team members and clients. Ability to travel as needed.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).