NSP Automation Solutions Architect

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 documentingthe 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.