Optical Systems Architect – Layer0

Develop innovative, competitive product architectures and requirements for packet-optical telecommunications products based on understanding of business requirements, use cases and applicable industry standards (like ITU, IEEE). Consider trade-off between cost, function, capacity and performance. The products to develop include optical network equipment, such as optical line systems, ROADMs, optical line interfaces/transponders/muxponders, OTN switches and other transport and switching network elements. · Work cooperatively with Product Line Management to define and clarify system & product concepts, features & requirements, including customer use cases and experience expectations.

· Translate the product requirements into system architectural specifications and requirements.

· Work closely with a team of architects and SW developers in establishing the SW architectural specifications.

· Participate in cross-functional feature teams to facilitate & build consensus on product architecture and technical concepts for product implementation.

· Engage with SW development teams to provide architecture and domain know-how to the teams.

· Support SW development teams during feature implementation and validation, ensuring alignment of the implementation with the architecture.

· Documentation of product architecture, requirements and concepts in clear, concise and consistent specifications.

· Investigate new feature requests and customer requirements; propose feature solutions and assess feasibility.

· Work collaboratively with the product documentation team to describe product features and operational concepts in customer documentation.

· Excellent foundational systems knowledge with experience specifying architectural specifications across multi-disciplines.

· Ability to think big-picture and deliver high quality requirements/architecture specifications, geared towards building robust, reliable and the best user experience solutions for the end-to-end integrated system.

· Experience defining requirements in the areas of Fault Management, Performance Management, Configuration Management, Service Provisioning and Control Plane features of multi-layer networking products (especially for the L0 and L1 layers).

· Experience with Optical Networking Technologies and Standards including ROADM/WSS, OTN, Ethernet, SDN/GMPLS Control Plane.

· Familiarity with data models used for operating and monitoring optical networks including YANG modelling language, ONF TAPI, OpenROADM, and OpenConfig.

· Familiarity with the SONiC Optical Transport Network Working Group including the Optical Transport Abstraction Interface (OTAI).

· Experience in programming in Python or Matlab and solid troubleshooting skills.

· Experience designing and validating link-level control algorithms and optical performance monitoring to optimize end-to-end optical performance.

· Excellent communication and presentation skills.

· Highly motivated team player adept at cross-functional, cross-cultural and international teamwork.

Education & Experience Requirements:

· Advanced graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunication or equivalent education.

· Ph.D. + minimum 3+ years of relevant work experience

· M.Sc. + minimum 6+ years of relevant work experience in optical transport systems or related fields in telecommunications.