5G Open RAN Expert at Accenture

Job Description

We’re on the hunt for strategic, curious, and unique individuals – people like you.

People are ready to take on a future filled with new ideas, technologies, and innovation. Be inspired to make the most of who you are. Be supported; learn new skills, innovative ways of working, and how to approach real-world problems. 

Welcome to Accenture

At the heart of every great change is a great human. If you have ideas, ingenuity, and a passion for making a difference, come and be a part of our team.

We bring together leaders in strategy, industry experts, enterprise function practitioners, business intelligence professionals, cloud migration and management specialists, designers, data scientists, and many other skills to co-create each client’s unique path to change.

Take advantage of our global network of over 100 innovation hubs around the world, where we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets, and next-generation technology to each business challenge. We work with 91 of the Fortune Global 100. As of 2020, we've made 18 consecutive appearances on the list of Fortune's "World's Most Admired Companies".

What you will do

• Create technical concepts and best practices to enable our clients implement intelligent 5G, Open RAN, and LTE networks
• Prototype your proposals with practical hands-on in 5G Labs
• Present your solutions to technology-savvy clients, and promote to global scale with technical impulses for umlaut experts and pre-sales
• Work in emerging technologies, e.g. energy-efficient networks, RAN intelligent controllers, ORAN integration & interoperability, network slicing, telco cloud & orchestration
• Regularly research the market and standards to influence umlaut innovation capabilities, e.g. 3GPP releases, 6G.
• Represent umlaut within standards developing organizations such as NGMN, ORAN Alliance or TIP
• Be part of a technological innovation team, cross-functional in expertise

Qualifications

• Brings at least 4 years of working experience in engineering, design, optimization, or similar position preferably with a network operator or vendor
• Hands-on experience on NR and LTE for traditional and new vendors, e.g. Ericsson, Mavenir, Altiostar, Parallel Wireless, Nokia, Huawei
• Have practical experience with Open RAN architecture and functionalities, with the know-how of ORAN Alliance specifications
• Familiarity with testing tools, e.g. Spirent, Keysight, Viavi, Wireshark
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, e.g. Kubernetes, Dockers, OpenShift, AWS
• Strong knowledge of 3GPP Release 15+ RAN specifications, service requirements, and architecture in both SA and NSA modes
• Strong knowledge of RAN features, interfaces, KPIs, and automation
• You are strongly objective and quality oriented and have very good conceptual, organizational, and presentation skills