Senior Telecom Network Consultant & Solution Architect

- MBA from a Tier 1 and Tier 2 school and Engineering from Tier 1 school or rich relevant industry experience

- Candidate should have 8-12 years' experience of working with consulting / services provider firms in the telecom networks domain

- Direct onsite experience (i.e., experience of facing client inside client offices in India or abroad) is mandatory. Please note we are looking for client facing soft skills

- Good working experience of digital, analytical, automation use cases in the network planning, operations, deployments areas

Specific Domain Knowledge:

- Delivery experience of Telecom networks process in either of network planning, architecture, network operations, deployments. Example: Service Delivery, Service Assurance, Field Force, Customer Complaint Handling, NOC / SOC, Infrastructure Roll Out

- Understanding or project delivery knowledge of OSS's digital transformation

- Good understanding of network generations, architecture and 3GPP/ETSI/O-RAN specifications

- Good understanding of IoT, SDN, NFV network architecture, key market players and telecom ecosystem

- Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and good communication skills

- Exposure to global clients is preferred

- Preferable working knowledge of RPA / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / R / Python

- CCNA, CCNP, CCSP, BPMN, eTOM, SID, TAM or similar is good to have. eTOM certification is highly desirable

- For Experienced candidates, experience of team Management - Coach and mentor team members in projects, on asset development, BDs and overall professional development

Deep expertise in Telecom Domain :

- Good understanding of Radio (2G/ 3G/4G/ 5G) Multi Edge Computing use cases, telecom cloud ecosystem, O-RAN, 5G, NFV (e.g., Open stack), SDN, SD-WAN, Telco Cloud technologies (e.g., Kubernetes), ONAP, Slicing Orchestrator, NOC, SOC, operating model design, process improvement, network assurance and network capex and opex management

- Solutioning experience in cloud area on Microsoft, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform

- Lead delivery of small to medium-size teams to deliver management consulting projects for global clients.

- Lead innovation transformation programs and process enablement for our clients

- Take responsibility within Comms & Media industry group or across the Products group, help build the practice, track metrics, and so on.

- Develop assets and methodologies, point-of-view, research, or white papers for use by the team and larger community.

- Support global sales team to identify and win potential opportunities within the practice. Help in drafting proposals as an expert for domain areas.

- Lead proposals, business development efforts and coordinate with other colleagues to create consensus-driven deliverables.

- Understand customer needs and translate them to business requirements, business process flows and functional requirements

- Experience to engage with stakeholders independently

- Execute a transformational change plan aligned with client's business strategy and context for change. Engage stakeholders in the change journey and build commitment for change.