Senior Solutions 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 mission of the Network Infrastructure (NI) Business Group is to be the most trusted partner for the world's most critical network infrastructure. NI will respond to the ever-increasing demand for networks with higher capacity, greater reliability, faster speeds, and lower costs.

Nuage Networks from Nokia fully virtualizes and automates any Datacenter, SD-WAN network infrastructure, transforming it into a reflexive environment that instantaneously establishes the network services required to deliver cloud applications across thousands of tenants in a policy-driven manner. In a field rife with upstart vendors offering the SDN flavor of the month, Nuage Networks has the pedigree to serve the needs of the world's biggest clouds.

The pandemic has highlighted how important telecoms networks are to society. Nokia's Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.

What you will learn and contribute to

• The Nuage Networks Business Group has the requirement to hire a Senior Solutions Architect for Nuage Cloud Managed SASE Platform.
• The successful candidate for this position will work closely & collaboratively with fast-paced cross-functional teams to develop detailed feature and solution requirements for a new innovate product and solution initiative.
• An ideal candidate for this position would excel in fulfilling the following key responsibilities:
• Define and prioritize product and solution requirements based on customer input, product portfolio strategy, market trends, competitive intelligence and knowledge of applicable technologies
• Write detailed Solution and Product Requirement Documents
• Create Proof of Concept (POC) documents/templates based on product feature and customer requirement
• Reviewing product and solution requirements with internal teams to refine feature and solution capabilities to achieve maximum customer satisfaction and competitive differentiation while minimizing development effort to speed customer delivery
• Meet with customers, partners, and analysts to evangelize the product, to monitor the marketplace, and to remain at the forefront of product features and technology. Help develop key accounts and key customers references to support the product and strategically important capabilities.
• Develop business cases for complex or significant proposals
• Respond to Customer RFI/RFP technical Statement of Compliance for complex or significant proposals
• Create product BOQ/BOM for customer proposals
• Contributing to the creation of sales/marketing plans and collateral: user documentation, competitive analysis, demos, presentations, whitepapers, case studies, value proposition, etc

Your skills and experience

Required Qualifications:

• Advanced knowledge of SDN, SD-WAN, virtualization technologies relating to NFV, SASE, Security technologies
• Thorough knowledge of Triple-play architecture and Internet technologies such as Fixed Access Network architecture, BNG, FTTX, GPON
• Thorough knowledge of mobile technologies such as LTE/5G architecture, Mobile Packet Core such as S/PGW, UPF
• Thorough knowledge of IP/MPLS architecture and MPLS applications
• Proven track record as a Senior Solution Architect with a minimum 10 years+ experience in the networking industry
• Experience with deploying/architecting customer premise equipment (CPE) as part of an IPSEC and/or IP/MPLS service offerings
• Enterprise / Service Provider network design/operations experience will be considered as a bonus
• Fluency in Linux Operating System with demonstrable scripting capabilities in Perl/python/PHP/Java considered as bonus
• Excellent communications skills are essential.
• Superior writing skills are essential. Must be able to write clear and concise white papers and articles that effectively influence executives as well as technical decision makers within large enterprises and cloud service provider IT & networking organizations.
• Innovative thinking and experience that brings different points of view to augment the team.
• Resilience in a high-pressure (but very stimulating) start-up working environment, with a creative, entrepreneurial, and can-do attitude.

Desired Qualifications: (Education, Technical Skills/Knowledge)

• BA/BS in Engineering, Computer Science or closely related field.
• Advanced technical or business degree appreciated, but not required.

What we offer

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.