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Description
Employer: Microsoft
Position: Architect
The Web has connected people in new and innovative ways and will contiue to evolve well into the future. The result is a masssive proliferation of content and new forms of communication, e.g., shared music, pictures, maps, digital libraries, and social networking. Software as a service is creating whole new business opportunites. The continued improvements in wireless broadband offers better high speed connectivity for rich, multimedia, mobile internet application experiences. 700 MHz Wireless spectra will enable open software and content download capability, without proprietary network bottlenecks and tariffs. Global mobile phone usage is expanding exponentially and opening massive new markets. The device formerly known as the cell phone is becoming a mobile personal assistant, where Telephony is just one of its features. Advent of technologies such as Cognitive Radios, Software Defined Radios, enable easy reconfiguration and consumption of bandwidth suitable to the needs of the service being consumed, while significantly lowering the cost of operations. These global trends foretell the need to move rapidly from merely delivering access to online web applications, to end-to-end mobile user experiences via services that are context sensitive and location aware. The biggest difference between today's online service and the mobile service of the future is the need to move from largely context-less mobile communications to context aware, integrated mobile communications. Relevance of information presented by a mobile service is critical. Information relevance is significantly improved by context sensitivity and location awareness.
Are you a sought after technical leader and a strategic thinker? Do you enjoy working on complex business problems such as those described above, solving architectural and implementation challenges, having siginficant commercial impact developing and fielding great mobile service solutions? Do you want to have an impact working cross-team and cross-market to deploy the next generation Mobile Services platform to serve the needs millions of Mobile users? Are you fascinated by the latest cool gadgets and devices? If so then the Mobile Voice Services Platform group has an opportunity for an experienced Services Architect to define the services and API model that generate awesome end-to-end experiences. The architecture and APIs must provide the basis for many types of services and offer the ability for service providers to differentiate and derive a significant level of business intelligence based on usage patterns and promotional offerings. Your ability to think creatively and outside the box around seamless mobility, service manageability, costs, deployment, and support will define your success. You will help create the nextgen mobile services platform, working on technologies such as location based services, context sensitive applications and scalable, optimized, seamless connectivity across different networks such as cell, wi-fi, wi-max, peer-peer.
Candidates for this role should have 10+ years combined experience in multiple disciplines. Cross group skills, depth knowledge of the mobile market as well as a creative base for next generation services is a must. Experience in computing disciplines such as distributed, large scale online services is a must, as is working knowledge and experience with concepts of pervasive computing, mobile computing, distributed computing ranging from C#, C++, IIS (.NET) and SQL required. Ability to present architectural concepts to internal and external audiences, engaging in active dialogue to drive important technical decisions and adoption is a must. Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related discipline required, Masters degree or higher preferred.
Come join a team that is growing to ramp up to helping Microsoft win in Mobile while adding tens of thousands of users a month; join WL Mobile today and find out just how much you can make a difference!
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