Technical Consultant

Responsibilities

• Closely cooperate with the Technical Leader and with on-site and off-site Development Teams
• Liaise closely with the customer. Provide technical solutions and workarounds and advise the customer during all project stages
• Support the customer during various stages of User Acceptance Tests, migration and then production use
• Support Business Analysts in identifying & documenting customer requirements
• Write external and internal designs. Cooperate with other Technical Consultants in writing external and internal designs
• Apply analytical skills to identify and solve problems
• Write code and complete the programming, testing and debugging of an application
• Participate in software installations, software support and data migrations
• Participate in code reviews
• Maintain Release and Installation Notes

Requirements

• Master in Computer Science and/or Telecommunication
• Good technical knowledge in software development methodologies, design, and implementation
• Good level of technical and product knowledge of telecommunication technologies will be an advantage
• Proven track record of working in customer driven projects
• Experience with highly available, telecom grade multi-tier systems will be an advantage
• Minimum 3 years experience in a Software Development and a Customer facing tasks
• Analytical problem solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to use initiative and proactive approach
• Ability to work under pressure and on a number of issues at the same time
• Good communication and team work skills
• Experience in working in international and multi-location teams
• Good interpersonal skills
• Experience in writing external and internal designs
• Excellent programming skills including high quality of coding structure and best practices
• Good knowledge and experience with a Unix environment, SQL databases (Oracle preferable). Tuxedo experience is desirable.
• Very good verbal and written knowledge of English
• Willingness to be occasionally on-call outside of normal business hours supporting the customer and the development teams.
• Willingness to undertake short term travel which may arise on occasion
• Willingness to work at a customer site for extended periods of time