Software Architect

Job Description

Cerillion is a leading provider of billing, charging and customer management systems with more than 25 years’ experience delivering its solutions to the telecoms sector.

We are looking for a Software Architect/ Development Technical Lead to work as part of our India Development Team.

Work with us on ground-breaking new developments in the fields of telecoms, cable industry, finance, and other sectors. Be part of a tightly knit team that is changing the way that the world works. This team has already produced innovation.

This is an excellent opportunity for an individual who enjoys working in a latest technology driven & challenging environment. We encourage our staff to innovate both in terms of technology and process to deliver high quality solutions in a timely manner.

Key tasks include:

• Understanding customers’ business / R&D requirements
• Understanding current system functionality
• Taking on overall ownership and responsibility of the functional and technical solution for the project/product transformation
• Working closely with project and product teams and developers
• Being the single point of contact from the development team for the customer

Development and Testing

• Proposing architecture/high-level functional and technical solutions, designs and doing the development estimation
• Designing customizations to core BSS products like CRM, Mediation, Charging and Rating, Billing, Bill Printing, Credit Control, Provisioning, Self Service, Product Catalogue, etc
• Designing new R&D features to add to our product suite
• Designing data model changes
• Development and management of customizations to our products
• Conducting Code and Unit Test plan reviews
• Supporting Bug Fixing
• Training and mentoring developers for delivering quality customizations / issue resolution for a project/product
• Facilitating development dependencies throughout the development lifecycle
• Applying and governing agile methodology and outlined processes for development, testing and deployment

Release

• Supporting DevOps team by providing any additional build and release instructions, supporting agile testers and leading in issue resolution

Reporting

• Status reporting for assigned projects and R&D tasks
• Identifying risks and opportunities and proposing mitigation plans
• Providing Interim performance feedback of developers to their Team leads

Requirements:

• Background in computer science or software development is essential.
• 10 years’ software development experience with strong technical, analytical, interpersonal, problem solving, planning and communication skills. Prior Software Development Technical Leading experience in the Telecoms industry would be required.
• Education, qualifications & special training
• Educated to degree level (or equivalent)
• A willingness to travel internationally is essential.

Experience

• 12+ years in technical solution design and solution development for high user footprint software solutions based on internet related technologies
• Minimum of 5 years of development technical leading of medium to large scale projects
• Competencies/capabilities – technical/professional.
• Minimum technical skills required:
• Good technical skills with development experience in
• Java/ Spring boot, J2EE, OOP concepts
• Angular, JavaScript or any frontend technology, Bootstrap, HTML/CSS,
• Restful Web Services
• Containerization / Cloud with OpenShift, Kubernetes etc.
• Application Server like JBOSS/10gAS
• Excellent RDBMS concepts, SQL and PL/SQL knowledge
• Source control system, debugging tools (preferably GIT based), build tools
• Understanding software development life cycle, software design and development experience
• Product and process-oriented development experience.

Desirable

• JBOSS FUSE/Apache Camel
• DROOLS (JBOSS Rules)
• C, PRO*C on UNIX
• Business Intelligence Software (preferably SAP Business Objects)