Senior Solution Architect

Job description / Role

Ooredoo Oman Family Member:

As the Senior Solution Architect you will be responsible of planning & designing innovative & customized technical solutions for business customers as per their requirements. Also to provide sales support activities related to design of telecom solutions.

Core Responsibilities:

- Plan & design telecom solutions which best suit the business customer requirements.
- Generate RFP technical responses, respond to tenders, prepare technical solution write-up, present solution.
- Attend sites surveys for complex and special projects
- Select the right technology & liaise with Network & Service Planning to develop the access network infrastructure.
- Assist in preparing high-level design documents for large-scale and complex projects
- Assist the product managers in defining new products & services
- Undertake feasibility analysis of network infrastructure availability, services availability and solution implementation as required by business
- Design technical solutions according to industry's best practice and develop techniques that will sustain continual service improvement
- Ensure the provided solutions are cost effective, scalable and future proof.
- Coordinate with the Network & Service Planning department in developing the low-level design.
- Identify and recommend new and viable telecom technologies and solutions for Ooredoo B2B technology profile
- Lead the User Acceptance Test (UAT) exercise
- Work with sales teams to identify, develop, qualify and complete with network infrastructure and services solutions
- Support the pre-sale activities when required & ensure technical competences are available.
- Provide sales support for activities related to design of various telecommunication solutions for business customers
- Lead the technical design team during business customer meetings.
- Work with Pre-Sales and Service Delivery for effective solution proposal and implementation.
- Support business product teams when launching new products during the concept development, and preliminary analysis.
- Lead the technical team during POC testing to ensure the deployed solutions are according to the design and agreed levels of standards
- Provide network consulting services on assessment and implementation for business customers based on requirements and technology capabilities
- Vendor management for new network solutions till full handover to Network & Service Planning department.
- Support the Program Management department in all the turnkey and large-scale projects during implementation.
- Lead the network design team in turnkey and large-scale projects.

Requirements

The Person:

You should have a minimum of 6 years of experience in access network design and architecture, must have significant knowledge of developing solutions architecture, experienced in complex telecommunication solutions & networking, experience in project management, In depth knowledge of pre-sales support, MS Office Proficiency and Fluent in written and spoken English and Arabic with a University Degree in Engineering preferably in Networking.

Skills Required:

- Solutions Design
- Pre-Sales Support
- Documentation Management
- Feasibility Analysis
- Project Management
- Good Knowledge of the Omani Market
- Communicating Effectively
- Results Focused
- Teamwork
- Customer Orientation
- Analytical thinking
- Planning & Organizing

Note: you will be required to attach the following:

- Resume / cv
- Passport-size photograph

About the Company

We are a leading international communications company delivering mobile, fixed, broadband internet, and corporate managed services tailored to the needs of consumers and businesses across markets in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia. As a community-focused company, we are guided by our vision of enriching peoples lives and our belief that we can stimulate human growth by leveraging communications to help people achieve their full potential.

Formerly known as Qtel Group, we have a customer base of 92.9 million and reported revenues of USD 9.3 billion in 2012.