RODOD Architect

Location: KSA – Riyadh / Onsite

Contract Duration: 12 months renewable

Experience- 

• 14+ yrs telecoms industry experience with various Business Support Systems, Operation Support Systems and Telecom domain knowledge, and RODOD stack.
• 10+ yrs of business requirements capture, IT demand & lifecycle management experience
• Candidate should have working experience on Oracle RODOD (Rapid Offer Design & Order Delivery) solution.
• Should have good understanding of Lead to Cash process flows and how they are implemented in RODOD.
• Sound knowledge of Oracle Order To Activate cartridges for CRM, BRM OSM and it’s customization.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Defines required enhancements to applications to support business functions, working with development teams
• Reviews application and integration designs to ensure compliance with solution designs and technology blueprints
• 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 Solution 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.

Mandatory Skills:

• A strong understanding of telecoms IT architecture, specifically RODOD architecture preferably BSS/OSS understanding, across multiple implementation projects & phases.
• Project delivery experience across full lifecycle, including business & application architecture, design, implementation, testing, migration, project governance & change management.
• Must have end-to-end order flow visibility in different systems (CRM, BRM, AIA, OSM, UIM, ASAP etc.) for Telecom Enterprise (MPLS, IPLC, Broadband, VoIP etc.) and GSM Services (Prepaid/Postpaid etc) .
• 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).
• Understanding of Product catalog modelling, Siebel and RODOD workflows.
• 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.

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.