Responsibilities:

iconectiv is managing a series of data products and services related to national and international interconnection. The Senior System Engineer will organize and lead efforts to produce business and detailed system requirements for complex software solutions and act as the technical product owner to support Number Management sand Registry services globally. This will require the SE to design an overall solution and develop detailed functional requirements addressing the business processes, flows, and interface specifications. Enhancements are required based on regulator mandates, customer interactions, and marketability improvements.

 The Senior System Engineer will support the following functions as directed by the Sr. Director of Systems Engineering and Solution Architecture.  

• Interpret and convert business requirements and customer feedback into solution designs and detailed functional requirements (conveyed in the form of user stories) for consumption by the development team.
• Guide the software development, testing and verification of requirements through laboratory work as needed.
• Collaborate with cross-functional business and technical teams (including system engineers, developers, and testers) and key customer stakeholders to create highly effective, usable, intuitive, and consistent user interfaces.
• Create mockups, prototypes, proof of concepts, etc. during the development cycle for new features and capabilities.
• Function as the user advocate during the development process and offer suggestions from a user-centered perspective.
• Participate in demos  and support the QA testing efforts to ensure the user experience requirements are fulfilled.

 Requirements:

• Experience in writing engineering requirements for large-scale, highly available, fault-tolerant, real-time, and distributed systems
• Several years of experience in areas like systems engineering, integration, systems architecture, or information security.
• Ability to interpret and translate industry and customer business processes and requirements into detailed technical requirements, performing gap analysis and proposing solutions which can be easily understood by developers and testers.
• Ability to understand and define common architectural styles for APIs (REST/JSON/YAML, SOAP/XML, Webhooks, etc.)
• Broad scope of technical background, including such areas as databases, interface protocols, security, encryption, analytics
• Ability and desire to research modern technologies and provide direction to a team of developers and testers. 
• Experience with delivery and support as a system engineer and product owner in an agile environment adhering to agile best practices is required.
• Excellent verbal, written and communication skills is required with the ability to interact with end users/customers on a regular basis.
• Strong time management skills with a history of meeting commitments are required.
• B.S. in Computer Science discipline with 8+ years of experience or equivalent working experience
• U.S. Citizenship required
• **Hybrid employees must live within 75 miles of the iconectiv office in Bridgewater, New Jersey, which is the in-person office location where the employee will report when working in-person

 Additional Skills:

• Experience in designing billing modules and automated interfaces with ERP systems would be a plus but is not required.
• Experience with usability engineering is desired but is not required. 
• Telecommunication IT requirement process experience is desired.