Customer Solutions Architect

The Customer Solutions Architect acts as a trusted advisor partnering with the customers on their needs. Understands and captures the critical inputs of stakeholders and translates them into effective requirements and solutions. Specifies and designs effective end-to-end solutions incl. customer-specific adaptations by using the Nokia portfolio of products, systems and / or services as well as 3rd party products where required. Applies solution architecture standards, processes, and principles to create and maintain a solution's (technical) integrity over time.

Customer Solution Architect will be the technical leader and guide towards various internal domain, as well as be the SPCO and Technical Lead front all the technical queries from customer for specific project.
- Build trusted professional relationship with Customer Network Head & Engg team, Planning
- Runs project meetings with technical depth and executes planned workshops
- Lead all technical discussions with Customer teams - soln. presentation, req. analysis, RCA, etc.
- Technical leader with E2E responsibility cutting across all domains, Lead R&D discussions
- Develops architecture & HLD for 4G/5G services, based primarily on K8s & RHOS platforms
- Performs technical risk evaluation and plans to mitigate risks of proposed design/solution
- Evaluates new technologies and sets a direction for customer solution evolution and roadmap
- Plan & Review migration strategy for solution refresh, for traffic migrations or for sub migrations

You have:

- At least 12 years of experience as Architect and Engineer in Telecommunication
- Deep understanding of 4G, 5G Packet Core and Voice network architecture and design including solid understanding of 3gpp specifications, Call flows, Use cases and integrations
- Practical hands-on experience designing and deploying 4G and 5G networks, atleast two 4G networks and one 5G network with end-2-end architecture, lead architect responsibility
- Solid understanding of IP protocols including BGP/eBGP, BFD, eVPN, VXLAN used in DC design
- Architectural know how on HW/SW based tech such as SR IOV, DPDK and accelerators
- End to end in-depth and practical knowledge on following:

- 4G and 5G Packet Core
- Signaling and SBA Architecture
- IMS and VoLTE/ VoNR Architecture
- Charging and Policy Management call flows and integrations
- Roaming and operator interworking

Security aspects including Defence-in-depth

I would be nice if you also had:

- Understanding of CNF onboarding, dependencies on Cloud infra
- Security and auxiliary services (VPN, FW, DHCP, DNS etc) in Kubernets and RHOS clouds

**Come create the technology that helps the world act together**

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**What we offer**

Nokia offers 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.

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- One of the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
- Gender-Equality Index by BloombergWorkplace Pride Global Benchmark

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