SW Architect
Nokia · Posted Oct 9
Mobile and fixed network infrastructure, IP routing, cloud, and telecommunications technology services
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About the role
Nokia's Element Management System (EMS) team builds advanced network management solutions that help telecom operators manage and optimize complex mobile networks, transforming toward an AI-native, cloud-first organization through agentic AI, automation, and modern engineering practices across MantaRay NM. The role is a Software Architect defining architecture and providing hands-on technical leadership for scalable, secure, cloud-native, and AI-driven EMS solutions within Autonomous Networks. This architect will lead requirements analysis, system design, development, troubleshooting, and performance optimization, driving adoption of multi-agent pipelines, agent harnesses, AI-assisted SDLC, automated testing, CI/CD, and modern cloud-native technologies.
What you will do
- Lead software requirements analysis and translate business, customer, system, and network-element needs into scalable technical solutions and product architectures.
- Define and evolve EMS architecture and component design, including APIs, interfaces, microservices, data flows, containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, and cloud-native deployments.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across development, prototyping, code/design reviews, debugging, performance optimization, and complex root-cause analysis.
- Build and enhance multi-agent pipelines and agent harnesses with coordinated agent roles, iterative planning and execution loops, context, tools, skills, memory, orchestration, validation, recovery, observability, and human approval gates.
- Drive AI-enabled SDLC adoption across requirements, specification, design, coding, review, testing, troubleshooting, defect correction, documentation, and delivery; continuously improve agent prompts, workflows, test harnesses, and validation based on performance and failure patterns.
- Lead technology modernization and engineering collaboration, driving adoption of Java, Spring Boot, microservices, containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift, automated testing, and CI/CD while mentoring teams and collaborating with product, architecture, platform, verification, productization, and network-element stakeholders.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Bachelors' / Masters' Engineering degree with 10+years of experience in software architecture, requirements analysis, design, development, and troubleshooting of large-scale distributed systems, with expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, APIs, CI/CD, automated testing, and cloud-native architecture.
- Hands-on experience building multi-agent solutions, agent squads/swarms, and orchestrated pipelines with iterative execution, feedback loops, planning, validation, and execution controls.
- Understanding of agent harness engineering, including context management, tool integration, skills/rules, memory, planning, critic/reviewer patterns, observability, error handling, validation, and human-in-the-loop mechanisms.
- Experience integrating agentic workflows with source repositories, issue trackers, code reviews, build pipelines, test environments, knowledge bases, and engineering tools, while ensuring pipelines are repeatable, testable, idempotent, secure, traceable, and scalable.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience in Telecommunications OSS/EMS/NMS, network management, element management, or related telecom software domains.
- Knowledge of telecom and cloud technologies including SNMP, NETCONF/YANG, SFTP, 3GPP interfaces, REST APIs, OpenShift, Kafka, Helm, GitOps, and Kubernetes Operators.
- Experience with specification-driven development, RAG workflows, knowledge-base creation, automated defect triage and fixing, code migration, CI pipeline analysis, and lab-integrated testing.
- Understanding of Responsible AI practices, including security, data protection, human oversight, output validation, auditability, quality controls, and safe deployment of agentic systems.
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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