Job Description & How to Apply Below
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As the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Ciena is committed to a people-first approach. Our teams enjoy a culture focused on prioritizing a flexible work environment that empowers individual growth, well-being, and belonging. We’re a technology company that leads with our humanity—driving our business priorities alongside meaningful social, community, and societal impact.
The Technology Application Sales (TAS) Software Developer position has responsibility for implementing use cases and proof of concepts in support of the go to market and technical sales teams. Working closely with Solution Architects (SA), Technical Sales Leads (TSL) and Global Sales & Partner (GS&P) leads the candidate will translate pre-sales requests into technical supporting material; product demonstrations, solutions, and enablement scripts for colleagues to apply.
The successful candidate is a strong team member who communicates clearly and knows how to drive requirements to technical implementation and application support, with a passion for the delivering successful outcomes and desire to provide Blue Planet teams with top quality configured products and solutions.
The ideal candidate will have technical knowledge of the OSS domain with specific focus on one of the Blue Planet portfolio products, a thorough understanding of a broad range of telecommunications technologies, as well as good understanding of software development and system integration patterns.
The applicant needs to have experience in software configuration, deployment and testing according to product and solution patterns.
They will have experience working with architects and designers collaboratively to understand requirements around OSS software configuration and possess the ability to translate those requirements into software solutions across the Blue Planet Portfolio or similar applications.
Successful candidates can expect to participate in the following day to day activities and duties:
* Configuration and development of customizations as applicable to Blue Planet products.
* Creates demo and PoC supporting material; demo scripts, recordings and clickable demos to describe the product and use case implementation and benefits
* Interact with the client’s IT, Network Operations, Planning and Engineering teams in the process of delivering Proof of Concepts to account opportunity audiences to understand target business and system processes and to define outcomes using BP products
* Work closely with Blue Planet pre-sales and Go-To-Market teams to ensure alignment between sales messaging and solution being developed throughout the demo/PoC creation process
* Work independently and in a hands-on manner
* Facilitate and/or participate in knowledge transfer and enablement of the pre-sales teams to ensure TAS end users are well-informed and engaged and projects are delivered to (internal and external) customer satisfaction.
* Facilitate and participate in workshops and design session both internally and externally to drive towards an optimal solution for a desired requirement while maintain pragmatism and meeting sales objectives.
Key skills:
* Minimum of 5 years in the role of hands-on Software Developer in the telco OSS and/or BSS areas with experience in a selection of the following: +
** Backend programming/markup languages:
** Java/J2EE, Python +
** Backend development frameworks/libraries**: maven, Spring Data/Security/MVC +
** Backend testing frameworks/libraries:
** junit +
** DB:
** Neo4j (graph DB), Oracle DB, Postgre
SQL+Timescale
DB +
** Others technologies:
** Elastic Search, drools, Kafka…
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