About the Client

Our client assists mobile operators in turning the mobile Internet into a desired destination for consumers while ensuring long-term viability for the operators themselves.

Our client is a tier-one provider of mobile internet solutions which optimize the delivery of data, web, multimedia, and advertising services to consumers on feature phones, smartphones and laptops. Today, their solutions are installed in the wireless networks of 87 carriers, which serve over one billion mobile subscribers in 53 countries!

Job Description

The architect will have significant responsibility and impact in the technical direction of the company’s product line. The candidate will work closely with product management, development leads, the executive team, and with key customers to set product direction within the collaborative and customer-centric product development process. The architect will participate in all stages of product development, from conceptual designs to customer deployment. The candidate must have demonstrated thought leadership within the development organization as well as with customers and partners.

Responsibilities

• Drive the innovation process to bring new ideas from concept to reality with demonstrations and working prototypes
• Provide architectural design and technical leadership for key features and products.
• Work closely with Product Managers, key customers, and the engineering leaders to develop innovative solutions to customer problems.
• Provide leadership and design oversight to the development teams on the implementation and refinement of new features.
• Support sales and product management during the early stages of new product adoption.

Experience

• 10+ year’s product development experience of high-performance and high-availability systems
• 3+ years experience in an architect role.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Understanding of wireless telecom networks including 3GPP and 3GPP2 network architectures in general, and LTE and EPC in particular
• Experience designing and building carrier grade core networking equipment
• Knowledge of networking protocols such as MPLS, RIP, OSPF, BGP, etc.
• Experience with high availability protocols such as CARP, VRRP, HSRP, trunking
• Experience with traffic management, QoS, shaping, and DPI technology
• Understanding of Internet protocols like HTTP, FTP, IMAP, POP, and SMTP.
• Familiarity of Internet technologies including application switching, optimization, caching, content distribution, etc.

Education

• M.S./PhD in Computer Engineering or equivalent.