Tata Consultancy Services

Senior Engineer / Architect Data Mediation (Telecom)

Tata Consultancy Services$150K — $180K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in system architecture and design
  • Proven experience with Nokia, Samsung, Ericsson, Cisco, or Ciena for data mediation
  • Strong skills in parsing and transforming binary telecom data formats
  • Proficiency in Java 17+ and Spring Boot for core service development
  • Experience with Kubernetes and OpenShift for containerized workloads
  • Expertise in Oracle database design and complex SQL tuning
  • Experience in site reliability engineering practices and observability solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the design of scalable mediation components for file ingestion and delivery.
  • Build and maintain mediation services using Java and Spring Boot.
  • Design and deploy container workloads on Kubernetes/OpenShift.
  • Optimize database schemas and write SQL for operational reporting.
  • Define service level objectives and lead incident response planning.
  • Develop observability and monitoring strategies for system reliability.
  • Mentor engineers and drive architectural decision-making across teams.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits package
  • Generous paid time off
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
  • Flexible work environment options
  • Professional development opportunities
Full Job Description
Must Have Technical/Functional Skills
• System Architecture & Design Lead the design of scalable, fault-tolerant mediation components including file ingestion, format conversion, SFTP distribution, event monitoring, and downstream delivery pipelines.
• Either of Nokia, Samsung, Ericsson, Cisco, Ciena dev experience in Data Mediation
• Binary Protocol & Telecom Data Expertise Parse, decode, and transform binary telecom data formats including ASN.1-encoded CDRs/UDRs, AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) records, and proprietary carrier formats at the byte-stream level.
• Java / Spring Boot Development Build and maintain core mediation services using Java 17+ and Spring Boot (Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Spring Kafka); contribute to shared starters and reusable platform libraries.
• Kubernetes / OpenShift Operations Design and deploy containerized workloads on OpenShift/Kubernetes; own Helm chart definitions, resource tuning, PVC strategies, horizontal scaling, and rolling upgrade policies.
• Oracle Database Design and optimize schemas for high-volume mediation metadata, reconciliation state, and audit trails; write and tune complex SQL for operational reporting.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Define and enforce SLOs/SLIs; lead incident response; drive post-mortems; implement error budgets and auto-remediation patterns into the platform.
• Advanced Observability & Monitoring Build deep observability into the platform: structured logging (Log back/ELK), distributed tracing (Open Telemetry/Jaeger), metrics (Micrometer/Prometheus/Grafana), and alerting strategies for carrier-grade availability.
• Performance & Reliability Engineering Profile and optimize JVM performance, Kafka consumer throughput, file I/O pipelines, and database query patterns; establish benchmarks and regression gates.
• Cross-Team Technical Leadership Drive architectural decisions, conduct design reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate with network, OSS/BSS, and downstream consumer teams.

Roles & Responsibilities
• Hands-on experience with ASN.1 decoding, AMA record parsing, binary CDR/UDR formats (3GPP, ANSI), and byte-stream manipulation
• Strong Kubernetes and OpenShift skills: Helm, resource policies, stateful workloads, network policies, operator patterns
• Proficient in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL: schema design, indexing strategies, partitioning, explain plans
• SRE mindset: SLO/SLI definition, on-call discipline, chaos engineering fundamentals, capacity planning • Experience building production-grade observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Open Telemetry, ELK/EFK, alerting pipelines
• Demonstrated ability to debug and resolve issues at the system level OS, JVM, network, file descriptor limits, GC pressure, thread contention
• Experience with Apache Kafka at scale: partition strategy, consumer group tuning, offset management, dead-letter handling
• Solid understanding ofSFTP, S3/object storage, file lifecycle management, and large-scale file distribution patterns

Salary Range: $150,000-$180,000 a year

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About Tata Consultancy Services

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is a subsidiary of Tata Group and operates in 149 locations across 46 countries. TCS is the largest Indian company by market capitalization and is ranked 11th on the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's biggest public companies. TCS is also the second-largest IT services company in the world by revenue and the largest employer of women in India. The company provides services in areas including IT, consulting, and business solutions.
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