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.

**Main Responsibility Area**:

- Manages Pre-sales stakeholders for solution capabilities from multiple technologies
- Defines new & innovative solutions to define and package integrated solutions
- Development of junior team members to bring up technology level
- Demonstrates capability to produce pre-sales deliverables and feedback to the PLM for the improvements
- Uses the globally defined cost management tool
- Technical and Commercial Evaluation of Solutions
- Provide feedback on customer needs for sales package definition
- Represents own Line of Business as a member of pre-sales team
- Coaches junior Service Product Managers/Specialists
- Understands the financial impact of taken decisions and actions
- Creates, maintains and uses benchmarks
- Innovation and Automation implementation for improved efficiency
- Driving the required business reports and data analysis
- Responsible for Pre-sales services deliverables e.g. solution cost, design, document and standardization
- Technical SME across the areas of Cloud Native, Public / Private cloud, Containerized & Telco grade solution so as to link the technology aspects into the solutioning considerations
- Automation and Innovation Project lead
- Presales leadership for the Nokia Core Networks Services portfolio for Global customer base
- Support cross global business solutions definition wherever applicable
- Provide feedback on competitive solution strategy for end customer
- Own cross business group handovers for the lead/support solutions
- Manage Global stakeholders and lead technology areas by addressing challenges raised by team
- Proactive leading E2E solution in alignment with counterparts to ensure effectiveness and completeness

**Desired Skills**:

- Hand-on experience as a Telcom Solution architect and RFP answering.
- Excellent understanding of virtualization/containerization technologies
- Excellent understanding of EPC/IMS/UDM/5GCore technologies
- Hands-on Experience on AWS/VM Ware/Oracle Cloud solution
- Excellent Understanding of E2E solutions and services for turnkey projects.
- Excellent understanding Telecom Architecture/Standard like ETSI NFV, MANO & SDN
- Excellent Understanding of the presales/delivery lifecycle
- Excellent Team Player
- Excellent communication skills (oral & written)
- Excellent Interpersonal skills
- MS office skills in advanced level (Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
- Ability to think Out of the Box and from E2E perspective.
- Flexibility and willingness to accept any extra work to complete task on time
- Telecommunication product and solution knowledge
- Openness for new situation and changes
- Innovation to take up new ideas for process / tools improvement
- Openness for interfacing with interfaces external to the team
- Customer Business understanding
- Software Business Understanding
- Presentation skills
- Self-Driven

**Education Required**:
B. Tech (Electronics / Computer) or Equivalent

**Experience**:
12 to 20 Years relevant experience

**Job Grade**: 10

**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 ou