Principal Consultant

• Ensure that External Designs comply with Global Delivery Center (GDC) quality standards before proceeding with Internal Design activities.
• Liaise with external designers and participate with design walkthroughs; discuss/explain functional requirements and dissect into logical functional sections.
• Convert external designs into internal design specifications (pseudo code, edit rules, decision logic, etc.) that will be used by developers to program the system; varying the level of specification based on the skills of the proposed programming team to ensure that the idea is clearly understood by the Developer.
• Reviewing system requirements, designs, and assist the development team with application integrations.
• Develop/review detailed estimates for design and development phases based on functional requirements.
• Work with the Project Manager to create a budget and project plan for the internal design, development, testing, and support effort.
• Perform quality and functional reviews during the design and development phases.
• Provide regular status reports to the Project Manager.
• Career Level - IC3.

Qualifications

• University degree in Engineering in IT, Computer Science, or any of its equivalents. Beach / BE / BS / MS preferred.
• At least 8 years enterprise software design development experience, preferably in a multi-national organization.
• Working Knowledge of Oracle Utilities Products of Customer Care and Billing (CCB), Meter Data management (MDM), Mobile Workforce Management (MWM), Work and Asset management (WAM), Integration Stack, Network Management (NMS) or Outage management (OMS).
• At least 5 years work experience in functional/technical designing using Oracle Utilities Application Framework (OUAF).
• At least 5 years work experience in java or groovy or OUAF configuration tool design and development.
• Technical capability in the areas of Java, J2EE, XML, SOA technologies, Oracle Database, SQL, Oracle XAI and experience with Building Custom Solutions using the tool stack is a plus.
• Experience in detail level estimation of effort for development and testing of design solutions.
• Ability to present technical information to fellow technical professionals as well as non-technical peers.
• Understanding of Utilities domain business processes is a plus.
• Experience in Application Design and Development Methodology.
• Knowledge in any Customer Management and Billing System a plus.
• Experience in Object-oriented Design a plus.
• Strong written and spoken English communication skills.