Solutions Designer/Systems Engineer

Solutions Designer/Systems Engineer

Kelly IT Resources has a contract opportunity with a client in Philadelphia who is looking for a Solution Designer/Systems Engineer. Someone who comes from a Systems Engineer background who can work cross-functionally across departments, and understands the complexities of a telecom/multi-offering organization. Please review the description below and if this is a good fit, please apply now...

The Solution Designer will be responsible for interfacing with Company business units to understand their needs, working with various architecture and development teams to create a solution to the business need utilizing Company's application and services infrastructure, and then working with impacted development and testing team(s) to ensure successful delivery of the proposed solution. Projects will include working with business needs for Company's Video, High Speed Data, Digital Voice and other emerging technologies. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and a background in architecture and business/system analysis. Proven experience in requirements gathering techniques, use case definition, architecture diagramming, sequence diagrams, test planning/execution and system requirement analysis.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS OF POSITION INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING : *

• Collaborate with business units requesting systems changes to clarify and document business requirements and business process flows
• Works with the business to identify ROI of proposed changes/enhancements to systems
• Partner with Architecture and Development teams to identify feasible solutions and Services that meet the business need
• Document requirements, use cases, architecture diagrams, and sequence diagrams
• Conduct user interviews, JAD sessions, and other forums to define and capture requirements and design of the solution
• Collaborate with application development and test teams to ensure that use cases and system requirements are understood and actionable
• Utilize requirements management tools to maintain traceability between requirements, design elements, and development work
• Present solutions to executive leadership, business requesters, architects, development and testing teams
• Make informed decisions and choices based upon priority, business necessity and bottom line impacts
• Assess work effort, provide timelines for completion of work and deliver within set expectations
• Creates regular status reports
• Creating and Delivering Solutions
• Solves complex problems; takes a new strategic and/or tactical perspective on existing solutions
• Is creative in approaching issues and opportunities
• Proven ability to successfully handle multiple projects at one time and delegate tasks to available team members as necessary; drive successful outcome with minimal supervision
• Responds to demands created by diverse tasks, complicated assignments and/or fluctuating volume of assignments by putting in time and effort necessary to complete the work
• Ability to produce the desired result in accordance with specified standards and department metrics
• Completes work assignments accurately and without substantive errors
• Assures that all aspects of each work assignment are present and properly organized
• Assumes responsibility for quality assurance of their own work
• Owns the project and problem resolution

Working Relationships

• Make informed decisions and choices based upon priority, business necessity and bottom line impacts
• Proven ability to understand all aspects of the business need and key business drivers and translate into technical solutions that help anticipate and facilitate possible future business needs
• Identifies issues, assesses and communicates risks and mitigations; recognizes and engages escalation efforts as needed
• Proactively attempts to resolve issues before they become issues and/or escalations
• Ability to develop, maintain and strengthen partnerships with others
• Strong personal leadership skills: interpersonal communications, collaboration, and negotiation
• Must be able to use resolution skills to negotiate ""win-win"" solutions
  
• Contributes to the achievement of team goals; team player and team leader
• Encourages and coaches the exchange of ideas amongst all members of the team
• Explains difficult concepts, persuades, and negotiates with individuals with diverse backgrounds and business interests to adopt a point of view
• Keeps others fully informed using all available means demonstrating responsiveness and follow-through to customer needs

Minimum Qualifications