Customer Care Technical Lead

Job Description Job Description The Customer Care Technical Lead manages end-to-end technical activities across customer projects, ensuring network stability, risk mitigation, and smooth operational execution. This role demands advanced troubleshooting capabilities, leadership in escalated cases, and the ability to collaborate closely with customers, R&D, and cross-functional teams. You will provide expert guidance on upgrades, acceptance testing, fault management, and early-phase deployments while ensuring SLAs and quality standards are achieved. Additionally, you will support knowledge transfer initiatives, review technical documentation, and contribute to continuous improvement across processes and solutions. How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn - Lead and manage all technical activities across SDM domains (HLR/HSS/UDM/NDS/EIR), serving as the primary technical interface for customer projects and ensuring smooth execution, operational continuity, and network availability throughout delivery, acceptance, and care phases. - Guide project planning with the PEO, validate workload and resource needs, and oversee technical execution including core network implementation, system acceptance, multi-vendor integration, HW/SW upgrades, preventive care, and fault/ escalation management. - Perform technical risk analysis, implement mitigation actions, and identify opportunities for contract expansion such as network growth, new features, and software enhancements, while supporting solution reviews with Solution Managers. - Provide expert-level troubleshooting through system-level tracing, debugging, protocol analysis, defect reproduction, and close collaboration with R&D to ensure timely fixes and resolution of complex technical issues. - Lead RCA activities, ensure SLA compliance during escalations, support emergency processes for critical outages, and drive technical leadership in early product phases including releases, pilots, trials, and early deployments. - Act as a subject matter expert by creating and approving knowledge articles, delivering customer/internal technical training, performing cross-team knowledge transfer, reviewing technical documentation, and collaborating with customers and third-party partners to enhance supportability and maintainability. Key Skills And Experience Must have: - A Bachelor's/ Master's degree or equivalent with expertise in SDM domains (HLR/HSS/UDM/NDS/EIR) with proven experience leading end-to-end technical activities, escalations, and complex troubleshooting including tracing, debugging, and RCA. - Excellent customer-facing communication and leadership skills, acting as the primary technical interface while ensuring SLA compliance, network availability, and smooth project execution across deployment, acceptance, and care phases. - Good capability in project planning, technical risk analysis, resource coordination, and multi-vendor environment management, including HW/SW upgrades and preventive care. Good to have: - Experience working with PM@Nokia methodologies, BG/BL guidelines, and supporting early-phase product activities such as releases, trials, and pilots. - Ability to identify technical opportunities for contract expansion and collaborate with Solution Managers and R&D for solution validation and issue resolution. About Us Advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world. Nokia is a global leader in connectivity for the AI era. With expertise across fixed, mobile and transport networks, powered by the innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we're advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world. Learn more about life at Nokia . About The Business Group In Cloud and Network Services, 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. 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About The Team Some of our benefits: - Flexible and hybrid working schemes - A minimum of 90 days of Maternity and Paternity Leave, with the option to return to work within a year following the birth or adoption of a child (based on eligibility) - Life insurance to all employees to provide peace of mind and financial security - Well-being programs to support your mental and physical health - Opportunities to join and receive support from Nokia Employee Resource Groups (NERGs) - Employee Growth Solutions to support your personalized career & skills development - Diverse pool of Coaches & Mentors to whom you have easy access - A learning environment which promotes personal growth and professional development - for your role and beyond