Principal Solution Architect

Come create the technology that helps the world act together

Nokia is committed to innovation and technology leadership across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. Your career here will have a positive impact on people's lives and will help us build the capabilities needed for a more productive, sustainable, and inclusive world.

We challenge ourselves to create an inclusive way of working where we are open to new ideas, empowered to take risks and fearless to bring our authentic selves to work.

The team you'll be part of

The Customer Experience organization provides a common interface to customers including account and relationship management, acting as the voice of the customer internally and creating demand across our business groups. While bringing deep understanding of local markets for our customer, the CX organization ensures strong alignment between sales and delivery teams.

As Nokia's growth engine, we create value for communication service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to cloud-native software and as-a-service delivery models. Our inclusive team of dreamers, doers and disruptors push the limits from impossible to possible.

You will be part of customer facing solution architecture team focusing on pre-sales engineering efforts.

What you will learn and how you will contribute

As part of our team, you will:

• Responsible for sales engineering functions in the enterprise account team.
• Support one or more account directors on winning new strategic DC Switching & Automation, IP/MPLS Networking, Cloud and SDN initiatives, and growing Nokia's IP Product portfolio into existing business.
• Partnering with enterprise sales team to drive orders by providing innovative solutions for large enterprise customers. You will be focused on obtaining customer requirements and translate them into customer specific solution designs and company offers.
• Lead prioritization of customer solutions and technical requirements and champion resolution and product gaps internally (towards product groups).
• You will position Nokia as a thought leader on key technological developments.
• Lead solution definitions both internally and externally, customer facing.
• Responsible for technical relationship towards our customers while being an integral part of the account team.

Your skills and experience

You must have:

• At least 15 years experience in solution architecture and/or technical sales
• Demonstrated expertise in DC Switching, NextGen core and edge IP Routing/MPLS technologies:
  
  • DC switching & Platform Automation (Ansible, Puppet, Python)
  • IPv4 and IPv6, BGP, OSPF, MPLS - RSVP, LDP, Segment Routing.
  • Metro Ethernet & MPLS services (IPVPNs, L2/L3 Pseudowires)
  • Multicast - PIM, IGMP, etc.
  • Branch CPE networking
• Proven experience with cloud computing and data center technologies:
  
  • SDWAN
  • VMWare (NSX and VMWare networking in general)
  • Containers and Kubernetes
  • Openstack & KVM or Hyper-V
  • AWS, Azure or other public clouds
  • Arista, Juniper or Cisco switching and automation platforms

It would be nice if you also had:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Data center network design (multi-tier zones, server load balancing, VXLAN, etc.)
• Demonstrated knowledge of SDN and NFV concepts and technologies
• Experience with content delivery / caching technologies a plus
• CCIE, JNCIE or equivalent vendor certification a plus

What we offer

We are a growing team with a global collaborative mindset. Our work across industrial segments offers invigorating insights beyond and inside the telecom industry.

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-being programs to support you mentally and physically, opportunities to join and get supported by employee resource groups, mentoring programs and highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employer

Nokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World's Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
• LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.

Nokia's employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect.

Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.