Senior Technology Consultant (Telco, Media, Entertainment)

DESCRIPTION

Are you a seasoned technologist who would like to work in one of the world’s most well established but fastest growing technology and engineering businesses? Are you hungry to thrive in an entrepreneurial and very fast moving environment?

If so, then EPAM is looking to expand our technology consulting expertise with more subject matter experts aligned to the telecommunications, media and entertainment domain to meet the ever-expanding demand from our client base.

You will become part of and help shape a newly formed team, responsible for defining and performing specialised telecoms consultancy within EPAM and our client base in the region. As a multifaceted individual you may play multiple roles that include - client facing subject matter expert, senior technical consultant, enterprise architect, pre and post sales architect, systems integration, strategic thought leadership and industry representative.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Contribute towards the definition of the strategy for the telecommunications consulting team and broader telco and media business unit by:
• Regularly engaging with clients to understand new business opportunities that would naturally extend EPAM’s core capabilities or drive significant growth
• Regularly engaging with EPAM account leads to understand existing and future pain points across the client base
• Conducting industry research to assess the size of emerging trends and defining steps for EPAM to align the current competency or develop new skills
• Identify potential partners to align with EPAM and extend our capabilities
• Document our strategic intent, architectural trends and roadmap and regularly communicate to stakeholders
• Contribute to business development on existing and new accounts by:
• Supporting account teams in pre-sales activities including pitch meetings, RFP responses etc
• Directly generating new opportunities by analysing the European telecommunications market (or aligned verticals) and engaging technology or business leaders
• Continually raising the profile of EPAM by identifying and participating in relevant industry events and seeking accreditations or endorsements by influential industry bodies
• Work directly in a client(s) engagement on a part time basis or as required in capacity of one of the following:
• Technical Consultant: advising on digital transformation, legacy IT transformation, value application creation (e.g. IoT, 5G)
• Technical Consultant: advising on digital transformation, legacy IT transformation, value application creation (e.g. IoT, 5G)
• Enterprise Architect: as staff augmentation within a client or within an EPAM managed outcome to produce enterprise level architecture and service design across network or IT domains

REQUIREMENTS

• Fluent in English language with strong written, verbal, presentation & communication skills
• Strong experience in the Telco, Media, and Entertainment sector, resulting in a significant industry understanding
• Strong experience in strategy, architecture or design within the telecommunications industry
• Ability to communicate and work at all levels of an organisation from C-level presentations to technical working groups
• Familiar with relevant leading and emerging technologies and their associated value/impact of change
• Comfortable to promote technology consulting activities and best practices
• Experience with contributing towards technical pre-sales and defined business development activities
• Demonstrated understanding of business context on customer side by:
• Understanding and describing technology and business context
• Identifying gaps in technology, architecture and business process
• Proposing high-level recommendations to address the gaps
• Ability to develop and present technology roadmaps showing the sequence and dependencies of prioritised technology initiatives/programs linked to timeline
• Excellent understanding of how technology is adopted to enable business outcomes with the ability to formulate associated technology strategy
• Previous experience in business case creation to underpin technology transformation with associated drivers and expected benefits including: digital channel shift, legacy IT transformation and automated orchestration
• Awareness of or active participation in relevant industry bodies and forums
• Technical Skills & Experience:
• A subject matter expert on any given area of telecommunication IT oriented solutions required to accelerate digital transformation: CRM (e.g. salesforce), CPQ (e.g. Vlocity), cloud-native and serverless technologies (e.g. GCP, Azure, AWS) and modern web standards (e.g. REST, HTML5 and WebRTC) or a subject matter expert on any given area of telecommunications network orientated solutions required to drive product transformation: OSS/Orchestration (e.g. blueplanet), MEC, 5G, IoT
• An appreciation of telecommunications IT-oriented solutions around data science and decisioning (e.g. pega)
• Previous experience in developing or designing complex client-server systems, and a good understanding of both digital frontend and backend components and challenges
• Knowledge of microservices architecture, design patterns and associated technology stacks
• Good understanding of the DevOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and its relation to agile methodologies and incremental development
• Bachelor or MSc degree level in a relevant area e.g. computer engineering, software design/development, telecommunications, etc

WE OFFER

• Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
• Opportunity to work on leading edge platforms, working in a fast-paced, agile, software engineering culture
• Knowledge-sharing with colleagues from EPAM's global tech communities
• Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
• Regular performance feedback and salary reviews
• Opportunities for professional growth

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