Solutions Design Engineer

We are looking for individuals who are highly motivated, have the right technical experience, combined with the desire to be in front of customers.   This role is a critical component to the success of the Customer Solutions Delivery process and we are looking for the "best of the best".

This role is suitable for experienced Telecommunications Engineers / Solution Architects with experience selling to Telecom service providers worldwide.

Our product is the most widely deployed, dedicated Centralized Signalling and Routing Control platform in the market – helping carriers with the migration from TDM and legacy SS7/C7 networks to IP, IMS, VoLTE and IPX. 

Responsibilities              

The main responsibilities of the job are:

• Create High Level Designs (HLD) for off-the-shelf implementations.
• Conducting low level design workshops with customer architects to extract all key learning from the customer's requirements.
• Create Low Level Solution Design Documents for bespoke solutions which will include
• Architectural Diagrams
• Call Flow Diagrams
• Logic Flow Diagrams
• In-depth signaling analysis
• Act as the primary technical liaison for solutions between the customer and the company
• Participates in providing feedback to Product Management and Engineering regarding customer functional requirements.

Requirements  

The successful candidate will have the following personal attributes:

• Essential for this role is proven experience in dealing with deep technical concepts in the signaling plane with the following protocols:  SIP, DIAMETER, DNS/ENUM, MAP, INAP, CAMEL. Other signalling protocols would be beneficial but not essential.
• Must be able to understand telephony concepts from the Core, the Edge and the Provisioning side of the carrier’s architecture, including SS7/C7 concepts and IP networks.
• Deep knowledge of all the interworking functions within IMS must be proven.
• Motivated and essentially self sufficient
• Ability to draw out call flows and sequence diagrams and really expresses a mastery of knowing the protocol specifications.
• Excellent ability to document and express the learning from the customer's requirements into a Solutions Design Document that is used to build customer specific solutions
• The role requires in-depth technical experience and the ability to stay abreast of evolving technologies.
• Excellent presentation skills
• Ability to present technically deep concepts to a wide range of engineers, architects, and design teams
• Travel will be required:  between 10-30% based on location. 
• Fluent in English. Speaking a second (or more) language is a big benefit but not a requirement
• The ability to work well in a team, as well as independently.

Qualifications and Experience

• A thorough understanding of voice and data networking technologies is essential.
• Four-year Engineering degree in a related technical field preferred, ideally Telecommunications, Computer Science, Information Technology. (if no degree then based on experience)
• 5 years proven experience with the technology and presenting in front of customers
• Ideal experience coming from working at Carrier Core Network groups or large vendors that sell into the carrier core network team
• Proven technical skills – which must be in the areas of Telecom architecture, IP networking including SIP, Diameter and SS7.
• Having a deep set of technical contacts across the Tier 1 and Tier 2 carriers would be a big plus!!