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 Senior Software Engineer - Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Job Information
Posted by: Openet 
Hiring Entity type: Telecommunications 
Work Authorization: Existing work authorization required for Brazil
Position Type: Direct Hire, Full-Time 
Compensation: ******
Benefits: 401(k) -
Bonus Plan -
Dental Insurance -
Health Insurance -
Paid Sick Leave -
Paid Training -
Paid Vacation -
 
Relocation: No relocation assistance provided 
Position Functions: Computers - Programming Languages
Computers - Other
Computers - Software Engineer
 
Travel: 25 - 50% 
Accept candidates: in same country 
Languages: English - Fluent
Spanish - Conversational
Portuguese - Fluent
 
Minimum Education: Masters Degree 
Minimum Years Experience:
Resumes accepted in: English
Cover Letter: No cover letter requested
Virtual Interview Questions: No questions which require answers when applying for this job posting.
Job Code: / Latpro-1767344 
Date Posted: Jul-30-2008
State, Zip: São Paulo, 04578000

Description

Senior Software Engineer - Professional Services

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

Professional Services Group

The Professional Services Group is responsible for developing 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 (Proprietary), a tcl type scripting language, and in 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.
Applicants must be flexible to travel and be onsite when and where needed globally.
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 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.

- Implementing the solution with the best in class quality as high performance and stability are key factors of the delivery.

- 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

- Produce functional and design specifications and test plans in the course of implementing solutions.

- 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.


Requirements

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

QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering, and a minimum of 5 years industry experience

EXPERIENCE INDICATORS

Content of industry experience and ability to clearly describe technical content.
Experience of complex design and development.
Used to working under pressure (How tight were the schedules?)
Experience of leading a small team.
Delivery of complex products to multiple customers