Project Technical Lead

Job Description

Job Description We are seeking a highly skilled professional to lead medium-complexity projects end-to-end—from presales through delivery to operations and CARE—managing integrated solutions across hardware, software, and third-party components, while collaborating with internal teams and customers to define requirements, drive technical execution, and ensure seamless project transitions and long-term support. How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn Own and manage end-to-end solution lifecycle for medium-complexity projects—from presales to delivery and operations, including hardware, software, and third-party components. Collaborate with domain owners and stakeholders to define project milestones, component readiness, and environment availability during the presales and planning phases. Gather customer objectives and technical requirements to craft suitable and scalable solution architectures. Create and validate Statements of Work (SOWs), ensuring clear scope definition and stakeholder alignment. Develop detailed technical delivery plans including entrance/exit criteria, interdependencies, risk analysis, and mitigation strategies. Lead design and analysis phases by driving creation of technical deliverables such as solution architecture, high-level design, integration, and validation plans. Guide technical project teams during implementation, resolve complex integration issues, and oversee testing and validation activities. Act as a technical escalation point throughout delivery and serve as a trusted advisor to customer technical leads. Plan and execute the technical handover to operations and CARE teams, ensuring readiness and successful project closure. Key Skills And Experience You have: Strong experience in solution architecture and technical delivery for telecom or IT projects. Proficiency in managing full lifecycle projects including sizing, BOM creation, and environment planning. Expertise in developing and reviewing technical documentation: SOWs, architecture diagrams, and integration plans. Solid consultative skills to engage with customers and gather business and technical requirements. Strong leadership in guiding project teams through design, implementation, and issue resolution. Familiarity with change management processes and technical risk identification/mitigation. It would be nice if you also had: Exposure to Nokia technologies and ecosystem, including CARE handover practices. Experience with project tools and methodologies like Agile, PMP frameworks, or ITIL processes. 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.