Cognizant · 3 days ago
OSS/BSS Enterprise Architect
Irving, TX
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
16+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Strategic Planning: Developing and overseeing the long-term technology strategy to align with the company’s business goals and market trends.
Technology Leadership: Leading the adoption of new technologies and ensuring the integration of innovative solutions across the organization.
System Architecture: Designing and maintaining the overall system architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Working closely with various departments such as IT, network operations, and business units to ensure cohesive and efficient operations.
Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring that all systems and processes comply with industry regulations and standards.
Performance Optimization: Continuously monitoring and optimizing the performance of the network and IT infrastructure.
Risk Management: Identifying potential risks and developing mitigation strategies to ensure business continuity.
Vendor Management: Managing relationships with technology vendors and service providers to ensure the best solutions and services are procured.
Innovation and R&D: Leading research and development efforts to explore new technologies and solutions that can provide a competitive edge.
Customer Focus: Ensuring that all technology initiatives and solutions are designed to enhance the customer experience.
Qualification
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Required
16+ years in senior leadership role and managing complex solutioning experience, with broad technical experience.
Extensive experience working with telco businesses on Next-Gen Technologies.
Broad exposure in the areas of OSS / BSS areas including Billing, OM, CRM, Inventory, Provisioning, Activation and Assurance.
Exposure to Network area – 5G Wireless RAN and Core / Private 5G / Enterprise Wireline solutions (like SD-WAN, Routing, Security, UC).
Good understanding of prime networking vendors in the areas above including Nokia, Ericsson, Samsung, Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Juniper and others.
Good understanding of OSS/BSS application vendors like Microsoft, Salesforce, Amdocs, Netcracker and others.
Experience building telco domain-based solution offerings in any of the areas above is desired.
Good communication / analysis / problem solving and client facing skills are mandatory.
Preferred
Worked with industry bodies like MEF, TMF and others.
Certifications in public cloud – AWS / Azure / GCP / Oracle.
Certifications or exposure in data management (using tools like databricks, starburst and other tools).
GenAI related certifications/exposure.
Company
Cognizant
Cognizant is a professional services company that helps clients alter their business, operating, and technology models for the digital era.
10,001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$0.24MKey Investors
Summit Financial Wealth Advisors
2016-11-18Post Ipo Equity· $0.24M
1998-06-19IPO· nasdaq:CTSH
Leadership Team
Ravi Kumar S
Chief Executive Officer
Anil Cheriyan
CTO / EVP Strategy & Technology
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