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CONS107 - Principal Consultant

Position located in: Apertio/Nokia Siemens Networks, Emersons Green, Bristol.

Frequent deployment to customers sites primarily in EMEA although NSN does have a global customer base.

Recruiting Requirement

Recently acquired by NSN, there are plans to rapidly expand our business, which has resulted in the need to recruit additional experienced Principal Consultants/ Service Designers.

Functional Experience

  • Design, plan and implement services in communications networks
  • Analyse and define customer requirements/new features.
  • Develop technical architecture, service designs, data schemas and data designs, technical solutions, message flows.
  • Write technical proposals, feasibility studies.
  • Liaise between software implementation team and customer technical team; provide techical support for the project delivery.
  • Define and develop test strategy, acceptance test concepts and procedures.
  • Support fault analysis and resolution.

Technical Knowledge

  • Directory Protocols (X.500, LDAP).
  • Any Enterprise DBMS.
  • GSM service delivery platforms: HLR, Intelligent Network (SCPs), SMSC, VMS
  • Unix systems/scripting
  • Data modelling
  • Network protocols

Role Experience

  • Providing lead technical role for delivering applications and solutions.
  • Working with customers and software development teams to understand project requirements and provide solutions to meet customer needs
  • Technical prime for project delivery.
  • Experience in software design and development may be useful.

Candidate Search Targets

Job titles

  • Principal Consultant
  • Service Designer
  • Solution Architect

Company experience

  • Directory Server suppliers (eg Sun, Nexor, DataConnection, Isode)
  • RDBMS suppliers (eq Oracle, TimesTen, MySQL).
  • Network equipment suppliers (eg Siemens, Nortel, Alcatel) or
  • Systems integrators (eg Logica, Orga, Atos).
  • Mobile operators (eg T-Mobile, Vodafone, o2)

Personal Skills

  • Able to communicate and present information clearly to both internal and external customers .
  • Motivated by, and committed to meeting challenging individual and team deadlines.
  • Comfortable working on-site with customer at a distance from core team.
  • Able to professionally represent Apertio to customers.
  • Able to cope to short periods of intense pressure.
  • Methodical and well-organised.
  • Sets high personal standards for quality of work

Benefits Package

  • Pay scale is competitive and consistent with roles and responsibility depending on skills and experience
  • NSN offers a competitive benefits package

Opportunities resulting from working with a growing company:

  • More responsibility
  • Learn new technologies
  • Being able to make difference to company and its customers
  • Travel

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