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**

Nokia Enterprise Solutions BU (ENSO BU) is focused on delivering high-performance networking and digital automation solutions to Enterprise verticals that need a mission and business critical networking foundation to drive digitalization to achieve growth in productivity and to deliver innovative services to their customers and employees. Customers in Transportation, Energy and Public Sector, Manufacturing companies can benefit from these high-performance mission critical networking and digital automation solutions as they move towards Industry 4.0. Nokia has established a global customer & partner base in these segments over the last decade and is now looking to further accelerate the growth of its business.

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.

**What you will learn and contribute to**
- In-depth expertise in Packet Core Portfolio-CMU, CMM, CMG, PCRF, and HSS for LTE/VoLTE solution, acts as a source of expertise for colleagues
- Design and leads the identification and specification of complex solutions in a complex customer environment
- Take ownership and accountability of customer-specific deliveries and provide technical support and guidance during solution design for new requirements, problem resolution for critical/complex issues
- Develop detailed customer solution design & architecture and perform technical risk evaluation for an overall technical solution
- Lead the technical implementation during the delivery phase
- Present offered solution design/architecture to customer and verify/adapt it during the realization phase
- Manages all the Technical management activities defined in Customer contract with small /medium business volume and average complexity and risk probability, in terms of quality, risk, and time from delivery approach preparation through deployment, customer acceptance, and care phase.
- Liaise with different stakeholders well as with Product Managers, to align customer requirements with available generic solutions, Nokia products, and 3rd party products
- Create and maintain end-to-end architecture artifacts including but not limited to, High-Level design, interface design document, process design document, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams, and data models across the ecosystem.
- Deliver clear and comprehensive technical documentation.
- Develops the full scope of the solution, working across organizations to achieve workable solutions
- Design & support Development of workflows/streams, installation, & solution testing.
- Deployment and vertical integration of Cloud Packet Core nodes (CMM/CMG/NRD) and also SDM/PCRF deployment experience will be added Advantage
- Horizontal integration of Cloud Packet Core nodes with other network elements (e.g. Radio, PCRF, SDM) and solutions(VoLTE, VoWiFi).
- Deliver VoLTE & Cloud Packet Core HLDs and LLDs
- High interaction with the customer’s key stakeholders and Nokia project team.
- Estimate services effort, hardware estimations and see through the delivery of a solution.
- Act as a trusted advisor partnering with the customer on its strategy positioning & end-to-end architecture on multiple domains.

**Your skills and experience**
- Strong understanding of 3gpp call flows, protocol stacks and good hands-on experience in Evolved Packet Core solutions from one or more vendors (MME, SGSN, SPGW, TWAG, ePDG). It will be an added advantage to have experience & competency to handle Nokia Cloud Core Nokia Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and Cloud Packet Core (CPC) solutions like FNS, FNG, CMM, CMG etc
- Competence in PCRF Solution and integration, SDM Basics for VoLTE and LTE will be added Advantage
- Hands-on experience on Packet core and VoLTE projects including engineering and design responsibilities
- Knowledge and experience on the 3G/4G/5G, VoLTE and VoWiFi Technologies.
- Strong knowledge of 4G/5G architecture, Cloud Infrastructure, and Cloud-Native architecture
- Knowledge of all or part of the set of protocols for IP/MPLS: IGP, BGP, RSVP, LDP, etc
- Experience of deployment in Cloud environments like VMware, CBIS, CMM, OpenStack, and Cloud Infrastructure - Compute, Network, Storage & Back-up. Certification will have added advantage.
- Knowledge in domains like SS7