AT&T Principal-Technical Architect
SUMMARY This position is a highly technical leadership position with responsibility for leading small teams in new and immerging technologies and application of existing technologies to new areas of use. Work direction is based on input received from AT&T leadership and the AT&T IT Innovation Board. The work activities are experimental in nature and intended to provide as much information as possible. Work direction changes as learning increases and the outcome of experiments is typically uncertain. In some cases activities will be completed through delivery of a product for use within AT&T. The position also includes ongoing product support and enhancements. The ideal candidate will thrive in a constantly changing environment, have excellent communication and presentation skills, experience as a mentor and an unquenchable desire to learn.
To be successful, you must be proficient at the techniques that go into the formulation of framework and runtime architectures,
including:
GOAL DRIVEN
•Demonstrate ability to drive abstract, course-grained ideas and approaches into concrete, fine-grained solutions.
•Demonstrate ability to be given an abstract goal, develop a plan to achieve said goal, develop measures to demonstrate success, and execute the plan.
•Demonstrate ability to work as an individual contributor (self-starter and learner)
•Demonstrate ability to learn/adapt to new technologies, IT approaches, and become a champion of these technologies and approaches with minimal formal training.
HAVING EXCELLENT TEAMING AND COMMUNICATION
•Must have strong communication skills (both written and verbal) for internal team discuss as well as for external team communication with clients.
•Must be able to organize, lead, and participate in dedicated teams to address system architecture pain points for our customers' applications.
•Must have the ability to work within virtual initiative teams.
•Demonstrates ability to mediate opposing viewpoints and negotiate equitable solutions to ensure successful and stable outcomes.
•Must have ability to participate in team oncall/callout Tier 3 support rotations.
PROMOTING AN INNOVATIVE CULTURE
•Demonstrates a willingness to create/promote a culture that drives innovation for clients, customers, and IT
•Demonstrates a willingness to build a results-driven collaborative culture that embraces an increasingly mobile workforce.
•Demonstrates a willingness to identify and act upon opportunities to help achieve continuous implementation of new and innovative ideas.
•Demonstrates an understanding that will help our organization achieve optimal application of technology as part of a continuous innovation culture and drive our organization's financial/resource value model through ROIC created by our customer's innovations.
•Demonstrates an ability to simplify work activities through the application of technology while improving consistency of product quality, lowering total cost of ownership and reducing time to market.
•Demonstrates ability to use practical skills and experience across many application and infrastructure (operational) products, technologies, and services.
PROMOTING EXCELLENT CUSTOMER SERVICE
•Must be able to analyze a customer's business and IT challenges and design a comprehensive solution that integrates smoothly into the customer's environment.
•Must demonstrate a clear understanding of ""self-service"" capabilities with relation to IT products.
•Must demonstrate ability to be responsible to carefully check for reliability, availability, and scalability
PROMOTING ORGANIZATIONAL EFFI CIENCIES AND IMPROVEMENTS
•Understand and work with project management, change management, operations management and financial analysis are integral parts of most assignments
•Lead architectural engagements in promoting the cause of technology, and of specific technologies, in order to achieve buy-in from the enterprise's management and IT communities, seeking to create new opportunities and business relationships
•Develop business cases to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of proceeding with proposed or demonstrated innovative solutions.
Qualifications: REQUIREMENTS: 5 years of experience in technical leadership and mentoring
Strong development experience in Java, J2EE, Eclipse
o Required: 5 years of experience
Messaging - Strong knowledge of using JMS based messaging - with WebSphere MQ, SonicMQ, TIBCO or other messaging broker technologies
o Required: 3 years of experience using these message technologies, using Request/Reply and Asynchronous messaging and Quality of Service
Strong knowledge of using XML/webservice based technologies - must have created schema definition (XSD), WSDL, SOAP, ReST
o Must have the ability to create XSD and WSDL from scratch, without use of client/server side tooling
o Required: 5 years of experience using XSD, WSDL
Strong knowledge and concepts of XML binding languages - Castor, JAXB, XMLBeans or other such XML binding languages
o Required: 3 years of experience
No visa sponsorship is available for these positions
ADDITIONAL DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS: Java/JEE Certification
Strong knowledge of database oriented technologies (SQL, stored procedures, triggers, indexes)
o Object Relational Mapping - Hibernate, TOPLink, JPA or related technologies
o Object/Data Cacheing solutions - Tangosol, Oracle-Coherence, IBM-ExtremeScale, JCache, ActiveSpaces, Cassandra or related technologies
Hands on experience in Solutions for Availability
o Experience working with software or hardware load balancing solutions, clustering, or related load balancer technologies
o Experience with High Availability for Data Replication - such as Oracle DataGuard, GoldenGate, Oracle Streams or related data replication technologies
Hands on experience using Development platforms
o Experience with Eclipse, JDeveloper, JBuilder, NetBeans, IBM-RAD or related technologies
o Experience with Unit Test Framework (such as JUnit)
o Experience with Profiler Framework (such as JProfiler)
o Experience with source code controls (like SVN, CVS) and scripted build languages - Maven, Ant
Hands on experience using User Interface Skillsets
o Experience with Flex, AJAX, Portal, DOJO and related UI technologies
Hands on experience using OS Scripting Languages
o Experience with Unix Shell Scripts, Perl, PHP, Jython, Python or related technologies
The largest communications company in the United States. And the world. We are the industry leaders in providing wireless service, high speed internet access, local and long distance voice, and directory publishing and advertising services across the US. We are also developing our business to include next-generation television services with our new AT&T U-VerseSM TV.
Join our incredibly diverse company of more than 250,000 people and help drive the innovation that keeps AT&T at the leading edge of technology and service. Expect big things from the company that created the communications industry.
