Customer Solutions Architect

This role involves developing customer-specific architecture and designing end-to-end solutions to meet customer needs. It requires coordinating cross-functional teams, capturing and managing requirements, and ensuring the integrity of the solution over time. The role also includes contributing to strategic decisions, solving complex problems, and leading teams or projects. Acting as a professional leader, this position ensures effective collaboration across organizations to deliver workable solutions and provides expert guidance within the organization.

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

• Design and develop customer-specific end-to-end solutions, applying high- and low-level architecture practices to meet business and technical needs.
• Capture and manage functional and non-functional requirements using industry standards and best practices.
• Coordinate cross-business group (BG) activities to ensure cohesive solution development during early project phases.
• Translate stakeholder inputs into well-defined, actionable technical requirements and architecture.
• Apply architecture principles and standards to ensure solution consistency, scalability, and long-term maintainability.
• Collaborate across functions and teams to define, validate, and deliver complete solution scope. Contribute to strategic decision-making and influence the technical direction of the organization.
• Solve complex problems using advanced analytical methods and in-depth domain expertise.
• Lead functional teams or task forces, providing technical guidance and best practices as a recognized expert within the organization.
  

Key Skills And Experience

You have:

• Strong experience in customer-specific solution architecture and end-to-end design.
• Expertise in requirement gathering, functional analysis, and system design methodologies.
• Ability to coordinate and align multiple business groups towards a unified solution.
• Advanced understanding of architectural standards, frameworks, and governance.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities in complex technical domains.
• Proven leadership experience in guiding project teams or technical task forces.
  

It would be nice if you also had:

• Familiarity with current trends in cloud, edge computing, and telecom architecture.
• Knowledge of tools and methodologies for enterprise architecture modeling (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate).
  

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.