Staff System Architect
Nokia · Posted Oct 28
Mobile and fixed network infrastructure, IP routing, cloud, and telecommunications technology services
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About the role
Nokia's Network Infrastructure group and Optical Networks division build optical networking products, now combined with Infinera to address the AI-driven data center era. The Optical Architecture group defines coherent optical pluggable products, including packet-optical architectures based on industry standards such as OIF, ITU and IEEE. This role leads the design and architecture of novel coherent optical pluggables, translating product requirements into system and software architectural specifications in collaboration with ASIC, hardware and software teams.
What you will do
- Work cooperatively with Product Line Management to define and clarify system & product concepts, features & requirements, including customer use cases and experience expectations.
- Translate the product requirements into system architectural specifications and requirements.
- Work closely with a team of architects and ASIC designers, optical front-end designers as well as HW/SW developers in establishing the SW architectural specifications.
- Lead the cross-functional feature teams to facilitate & build consensus on product architecture and technical concepts for product implementation.
- Engage with SW development teams to provide architecture know-how to the teams and maintain alignment of the implementation with the architecture.
- Documentation of product architecture, requirements and concepts in clear, concise and consistent specifications.
- Investigate new feature requests and customer requirements; propose feature solutions and assess feasibility.
- Work collaboratively with the product documentation team to describe product features and operational concepts in customer documentation.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Broad systems knowledge garnered by years of experience specifying and/or leading architectural specifications across multi-disciplines
- Ability to think big-picture and deliver high quality requirements/architecture specifications, geared towards building robust, reliable and the best user experience solutions for the end-to-end integrated system
- Experience defining requirements in the areas of Fault Management, Performance Management, Configuration Management, Service Provisioning and Control Plane features of multi-layer networking products (especially for the L0 and L1 layers)
- Experience with Optical Networking Technologies and Standards including OTN, Ethernet, Encription capability such as MACSEC
- Familiarity with CMIS, C-CMIS, OIF specification.
- Experience designing and validating link-level control algorithms and optical performance monitoring to optimize end-to-end optical performance.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Usage of modern AI tool such as Cursor, AI-SDLC
- Highly motivated team player adept at cross-functional, cross-cultural and international teamwork
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Nokia
Nokia Corporation is a multinational telecommunications, information technology, and network equipment provider that delivers critical infrastructure solutions across mobile, fixed, and cloud networks. Known for its historical roots and ongoing global presence in connectivity, the company enables advanced network automation, AI-optimized data center infrastructure, and 5G/6G technology for communications service providers and enterprises worldwide.
- Industry
- Telecommunications
- Company size
- 78005 employees
- Founded
- 1865-05-12
- Location
- Espoo, Finland
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Technology and AI Officer
President of Network Infrastructure
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