Solutions Design Engineer - Georgia IT Inc.

Philadelphia, PA

About the Job

Job Title : Solutions Design Engineer
Location : Philadelphia, PA
Position Type : Contract
Rate : Market
Interview Process: Phone then onsite your company must cover expenses no Skype/webcam or phone-to-hire

Scope
The Solutions Design Engineer will be responsible for interfacing with company business units to understand their needs, working with various architecture and development teams to create a solution to the business/product need utilizing company application and services infrastructure, and then working with impacted infrastructure, development, and testing team(s) to ensure successful delivery of the proposed solution. Projects will include working with business needs for company voice products.

Responsibilities

Will conduct design and analysis of technical products and systems and performs engineering design evaluations. Recommends alterations to development and design to improve quality of products and/or procedures.
Collaborate with business units requesting systems changes to clarify and document business requirements and business process flows
Work with business to identify ROI of proposed changes/enhancements to systems
Partner with Architecture and Development teams to identify feasible solutions and Services that meet the business need
Document requirements, user stories, architecture diagrams, and sequence diagrams
Conduct user interviews, JAD sessions, and other forums to define and capture requirements and design of the solution
Collaborate with application development and test teams to ensure that use stories and system requirements are understood and actionable
Utilize requirements management tools to maintain traceability between requirements, design elements, and development work
Present solutions to business requesters, architects, development and testing teams
Assess work effort, provide timelines for completion of work and deliver within set expectations
Creates regular status reports

Required Skills/Experience

Minimum 3 years writing IT requirement with strong Client experience in a complex work environment
Minimum 5 years working in IT with SDLC
Proficiency in documenting Use Cases, Requirements, Activity Diagrams and Sequence Diagrams in a technical environment
Experience conducting JAD/RAD/AGILE /Waterfall scrum sessions
Understanding of SOA and experience writing requirements in a SOA environment
Strong analytical, critical thinking and problem solving skills
Advanced proficiency with use of Microsoft Office applications including, Word, MS Project, Excel and Visio and other tools that facilitate the requirements gathering and design phases of the SDLC
Ability to work and deliver under the pressure of deadlines and commitments to the customer
BA/BS or Associate degree in Computer Science or related field
solid SW Analysis and design, Systems Engineering type folks

Nice to Have

Experience in cable and/or telecommunications
Experience writing code as a software developer
Experience with OSS/BSS

Additional Detail

Prior Telecom and/or cable industry experience would be great but it's not a must have.
Prior Dev experience also highly desired as they will deal with both SW and Hardware related Solutions.
BA skills (heavy), dev skills, analytical skills and even architecture skills come into play here.

It will be very helpful if we get creative and drill down on the search, this is a "Solutions role. Person must be very analytical in their thinking and will be asked questions in the interview where they must provide a Solution and think outside the box.

Source : Georgia IT Inc.