Nokia
Website:
nokia.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/nokia
Seniority: Not Applicable
Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting and Telecommunications
Job details:
Job Description
The Technology Leader will work closely with customers, project delivery teams, product line management, pre-sales organizations, business development teams, and global customer engineering organizations to drive successful delivery of Optical Transport, Cloud Infrastructure, and Subsea networking solutions.
The role is responsible for leading and scaling a high-performance Remote Delivery Engineering organization focused on optical transport networks, subsea connectivity solutions, and cloud-integrated network infrastructures. The individual will provide technical leadership across architecture, design, validation, deployment, optimization, and lifecycle management of customer networks while ensuring delivery excellence and superior customer experience.
The candidate will lead a team of highly skilled engineers covering solution architecture, technical delivery, network design, interoperability validation, automation, customer acceptance, and technical consultancy across Nokia's Optical Networks portfolio, subsea transport solutions, and cloud-native infrastructure environments
How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn
- Lead end-to-end remote delivery of Optical Transport, DWDM, OTN, ROADM, Metro, Long-Haul, and Subsea network solutions.
- Own architecture, design, deployment, migration, and lifecycle management of optical and transport networks.
- Provide technical leadership for cloud-integrated network infrastructures (cINF) supporting network modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
- Lead customer engagements from solution definition through deployment and operational acceptance.
- Build, mentor, and develop globally distributed engineering teams.
- Partner with Sales, Pre-Sales, Product Management, and Customer stakeholders to drive strategic growth opportunities.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to executive and senior customer stakeholders.
- Drive adoption of network automation, SDN-based transport architectures, cloud-native operational models, and AI-driven network assurance.
- Support deployment and optimization of subsea transport networks, landing station connectivity, and terrestrial extension architectures.
- Ensure first-time-right delivery with high-quality engineering outputs and technical governance.
- Establish best practices, reusable delivery frameworks, engineering standards, and solution blueprints.
- Drive risk management, technical escalation management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Align customer solutions with Nokia product roadmaps and future technology evolution.
Key Skills And Experience
Optical Networks
- DWDM, CWDM, OTN, ROADM, Optical Switching
- Metro, Regional, Long-Haul, and Ultra Long-Haul Transport Networks
- Optical planning, design, performance engineering, and network optimization
- Carrier-grade transport architectures and resiliency frameworks
- Nokia Optical product portfolio (1830 PSS and related transport solutions)
Subsea Networks
- Subsea cable systems and transport technologies
- Landing station architecture and terrestrial integration
- Capacity planning and service provisioning across subsea infrastructures
- Multi-domain optical network operations and service assurance
Cloud Infrastructure (cINF)
- Cloud Infrastructure platforms supporting telecom workloads
- Kubernetes, OpenStack, VMware, and cloud-native environments
- Infrastructure virtualization and containerized deployments
- Network cloud integration and automation frameworks
Automation & Software Defined Networking
- SDN-controlled transport networks
- Network automation and orchestration frameworks
- Python, Ansible, APIs, and model-driven networking
- Telemetry, analytics, and closed-loop assurance
Leadership & Customer Skills
- Strong customer engagement and executive relationship management.
- Proven ability to influence customer technology strategy and investment decisions.
- Demonstrated leadership in managing large, geographically distributed engineering organizations.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills.
- Strong commercial acumen with ability to support business growth and opportunity development.
- Strategic thinker with excellent problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
Experience
- 20+ years of experience in Telecommunications, Optical Networking, Transport Networks, or Network Infrastructure domains.
- 10+ years leading engineering, architecture, or delivery organizations.
- Proven experience in large-scale Optical Transport, Cloud Infrastructure, and Subsea network deployments.
- Experience managing global customer engagements and remote delivery organizations.
- Strong understanding of service provider, hyperscaler, enterprise, and subsea operator environments.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science, or related discipline.
- Industry certifications in Optical Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, IP Networking, or equivalent technologies preferred.
- Demonstrated expertise in Optical Transport, cINF, Subsea, and Network Automation technologies.
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