Job Description

As an NSP Automation Solutions Architect, you will collaborate with sales, business development, and project teams to understand customer needs and translate them into automation solutions. You will engage in customer workshops, document requirements, and design solutions based on the NSP Automation framework. Hands-on validation of solutions, including lab setup and research, will be a key aspect of your role. You will also support project delivery teams, provide technical guidance, and contribute to commercial proposals. Your expertise in IP/Optical networking, OSS, SDN, and software development will drive successful automation strategies and business outcomes.

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

• Engage with Sales Engineers, Business Development, regional account teams and Project Managers to understand the overall project intent, goals and scope.
• Conduct needs analysis workshops with customers to gain in-depth details of business needs, specific use cases and expected project outcomes. Document established understanding of the project goals and requirements; and share the understanding between customer and project teams.
• Be a hands-on professional validating the requirements in labs, or researching network equipment to understand their features, functions and capabilities.
• Analyze business, technical requirements to design and automation solution based on NSP Automation framework documenting the results either in a solution proposal or high-level design documents.
• Validate the solution with the design and testing teams.
• Keep regular contact with product teams and suggest strategies, initiatives, and remedies for existing use cases, new products or product features.
• Work with technical and commercial teams to outline project solution (solution architecture), suggest product components and service offerings to deliver on the project – strive to propose and design a viable solution that will yield a return on investment for the business unit.
  
  

Key Skills And Experience

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree with 10 to 15 years of relevant work experience.
• Experience assisting sales, accounts, and commercial teams in drafting the statement of work or solution proposals for a commercial offer of the proposed solution.
• Ability to provide direction, assistance, and answer questions to customers and Nokia project delivery teams, ensuring project scope is maintained and the solution is implemented.
• Experience serving as a liaison for cross-business unit customer projects.
• Experience conducting customer needs and requirements gathering workshops and interviews.
• A comprehensive understanding and experience with IP/Optical networking, OSS, and SDN technologies and business, enabling you to lead technical and business discussions with internal and customer experts.
  
  

It would be nice if you also had:

• Nokia Service Router Certification Level II+ or Cisco CCNA certification.
• Proven ability to transform customer needs and requirements into successful solution offerings and software specifications.
• Software development experience in an agile environment.
  
  

About Us

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

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.

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
  
  

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.

About The Team

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.