Associate Director - Digital Fabric

Job Description

Responsible for designing software architecture and (or) delivery & deployment of the solution, driving automation, and improving operational efficiencies. This is a tactical role which defines the direction of new solutions, processes, standards based upon business strategy or customer need, with a significant mid-term impact on business unit overall results.

Responsibilities

Understanding new requirements / charters and analysis

Leads discussions with cross functional teams and stake holders to evaluate feasibility, technical specifications, cost-benefit analysis, etc.

Define the software roadmap to meet business needs and operational aspects, secure and scalable.

Creating & delivering high quality features, preparing end to end high level and low-Level designs, developing individual sub systems.

Drives deployment of software architecture. Analyses test results post testing. Oversees go-live and guides troubleshooting.

Review and finalize implementation of design and architecture including infrastructure and deployment requirements.

Create internal user stories for development, testing and deployment across multiple sub-systems like OSS-BSS, IT Applications

Establish technology standards, cloud native architecture, SaaS based model for applications development, lead software quality assurance by reviewing process compliances, identifying pain points, and driving improvement initiatives.

Facilitating creation and prioritization of program-level feature and architectural backlogs

The role may be leading a team of software developers.

Desired Skill sets

Demonstrated experience and understanding in software solutions requirement analysis, creating roadmap, design, and software & platform architecture, cloud environment, business concepts and processes.

Hands on experience in debugging complex issues.

Extensive experience in software and application lifecycle Management

Industry domain knowledge of key technology and industry trends

Experience in working with Agile methodology.

Develop

APIs, microservices, or integration layers with OSS / BSS, orchestration, and

ITSM platforms.

Translate

domain requirements into AI / GenAI workflows (e.g., alarm storm reduction

assistant, energy optimization recommender ).

Work

with SMEs from Wireless, Transport, Cloud, and Core to contextualize GenAI

solutions for network challenges.

Contribute

to building the AI / GenAI Practice Team IP (prompt repositories, reusable GenAI

frameworks).

Evaluate

emerging GenAI models and tools for relevance to telecom (e.g., LLaMA, GPT).

Support

pre-sales, PoCs, and client workshops to showcase GenAI use cases in telecom

networks.

Proficiency

in Python (must-have), with experience in building APIs / microservices

(FastAPI / Flask / Django).

Experience

in fine-tuning / few-shot prompting for LLMs.

Strong

hands-on experience with GenAI frameworks : LangChain, LlamaIndex, HuggingFace

Transformers, RAG implementations.

Familiarity with MLOps / LLMOps pipelines (MLflow,

Kubeflow, or equivalent).

Skills Required

Implementation, Natural Language Processing, Agile