ROLE TITLE: Senior Software Engineer
REPORTING TO: Lead Engineer or Principal Engineer
LOCATION: Kansas, USA
ABOUT OPENET
Openet is a leading worldwide provider of event processing and transaction management solutions that enable service providers to maximize profitability, minimize deployment and management costs and ensure regulatory and partner requirements compliance. Our products - FusionWorks Mediation, FusionWorks Charging, and FusionWorks Real-Time Rating – and the solutions they enable, set the industry standard for availability, performance and scale in processing and management of network activity events and transactions in multi-service convergent environments
OVERVIEW:
The Professional Services division is responsible for delivering client mediation solutions - built on Openet’s mediation product set - to customers. This will involve analysis of the customers’ business requirements and implementing a solution to meet these needs in Openet’s rules based platform. The solution will typically be implemented in a combination of DSD, a tcl type scripting language, Shell scripts and in C/C++.
ROLE SUMMARY:
The role of a Senior Software Engineer in Professional Services at Openet requires solving a wide range of difficult problems in imaginative and practical ways. Peer/manager reviews exist at this level.
The Senior Software Engineer must be able to take ownership of specific complex tasks, and take them to completion. Some of the tasks involved are:
• Interfacing with Sales for new project requirements.
• Interfacing with customers for new project requirements.
• Creation and review of Functional Specifications using Proposal and requirement documentation as input.
• Ability to design and implement a complex module with minimal supervision or review.
• Review Design Specifications and code of Level I and II engineers.
• Create and review Test plans and Testing of large modules and systems.
• Installation and delivery of customer deliveries on a customer site, and dealing with customer issues.
• Mentoring and review of more junior engineers.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Work on multiple problems of diverse scope where refinement of design/requirements will be necessary & is expected to drive resolution of requirements. This involves taking requirements from multiple sources, like customers and equipment vendors, plus planning and delivering the resultant project tasks and deliverables on time and to budget.
• Produce functional and design specifications and test plans in the course of implementing solutions.
• Take a leadership role as assigned by the PM or Lead Engineer e.g.leading a team and taking responsibility for delivery of a sub-project or project.
• Leading a design activity and taking responsibility for design and development of a module or modules.
• Is proactive in a development team, contributes significantly to the success of the team and able to gain the co-operation of others.
• Is experienced in a variety of technologies, possibly focusing on a particular expertise.
• Continues to demonstrate an organised, systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to designing, problem solving, coding and defect fixing.
• Have excellent oral and written communication skills for effective dialogue with colleagues on a project team and superiors.
• Continues to develops an appreciation of the wider field of technology outside his/her own specialisation and has developed a good broad understanding of computer system architecture, telecommunications technologies, and telecommunications industry developments and trends.
• Able to bring these new technologies into use in Openet Telecom.
PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:
• Communication
• Interpersonal skills
• Professional, positive attitude
• Enquiring
• Analytical
• Creative
• Initiative
• Comprehension
• Planning
SKILLS:
ESSENTIAL
• Competent software development skills acquired in:
• A scripting language such as Shell, tcl, DCL and/or
• A programming language such as Visual Basic or C
• Software development in a UNIX environment
• Design and development track record
• Broad understanding of telecommunications
• Software Design & Development in industry
• Demonstrable analysis abilities
• Experience leading or mentoring a number of junior developers
USEFUL
• C++
• Java
• CORBA
• NT
• Telecom networking protocols (ISDN, X.25, SS7)
• In-depth understanding of telecom networks and technologies
• Development life cycle
• Telecommunications applications
How to apply:- Please send your CV to:
jobs@openet.com
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