SaaS Enterprise Lead Architect

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.

The team you’ll be part of

As Nokia's growth engine, we create value for communication service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to cloud-native software and as-a-service delivery models. Our inclusive team of dreamers, doers and disruptors push the limits from impossible to possible.

About Nokia CNS SaaS

While SaaS is on fire in the general marketplace, it’s just beginning to emerge in the telecommunications sector. SaaS is important to us, not only because the market demands it, but because it produces a predictable and steady revenue stream. Our mandate is to drive Nokia’s adoption of this lucrative business model, leading communications service providers (CSPs) to new opportunities and profit. SaaS will eventually encompass our industry and we need to be in front of this tectonic shift to capitalize on the first-mover advantage.
We lead the “Software-as-a-Service” revolution in the Communications and Media industry through disciplined execution and high integrity, building on Nokia’s heritage as the premier industry thought leader and trusted technology partner to Communications Service Providers and Enterprises.We create technology that helps the world act together by delivering innovative and contemporary “Software-as-a-Service” products, enabling Nokia customers to rapidly deliver new and profitable communications services to their respective markets.

Job Description

The Nokia CNS SaaS Delivery and Operations department is looking for a strong and motivated Lead Architect for the CNS SaaS Delivery and Operations Framework (SDOF).
The SaaS Delivery and Operations Framework is a set of features and capabilities that provide:

• Shared components optimized for SaaS delivery and operations on public Hyperscalers
• Operational SaaS capability that spans broader security and compliance requirements than product-level only
• CI/CD automation using Azure pipelines and recipes that integrate product service delivery with shared framework components
• Digital integration with order fulfillment, customer support, monitoring and incident management, KPI/SLA metric collection and reporting, and internal/external SaaS portals & APIs

The SDOF Lead Architect will be a strong leader for the technical model that the Framework is built on and the capabilities that support the Framework. Not only technical leadership but also evangelizing the SaaS Delivery & Operations Framework and its value to Nokia BUs.

What you will learn and contribute to

• Lead development team using Agile process
• Capture requirements, build user stories of SaaS, make assignments to the developers, track and monitor the process, report the status
• Manage solutions end-to-end life-cycle
• Architect the SaaS Delivery & Operations Framework overall, help to design architecture components and microservices
• Establish, design, oversee Devops/Gitops processes for development and deployment automation
• Manage and oversee public cloud accounts
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders across Nokia to assure alignment with corporate technical blueprints, standards, solutions, and strategies
• Actively learn and apply new technologies through iteration
• Collaborate with team members to determine and define best practices
• Ready to work with multi-nation, multi-region environments.

Your skills and experience

• Bachelor´s degree or equivalent experience required
• At least 10 years of Enterprise Technical Architecture experience
• Strong communication skills, including ability to create presentations or dashboards that contain enough detail to be consumed without accompanying narrative, yet brief enough not to confound or confuse the audience either
• Capable of working in a diverse, global environment
• Self-directed, can interpret and extrapolate requirements and priorities from shared contents or communications
• Experience or familiarity with DevOps technologies (examples: Azure DevOps, public cloud native services and components, GitHUB, Terraform/Terragrunt, etc)
• Experience or familiarity with Kubernetes and related technologies (Docker, helm, k8s API )

What we offer

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, 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

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Nokia is committed to building a skilled, diverse and inclusive workforce reflective of Canadian society. As a result, we promote employment equity and are an equal opportunity employer that attracts and hires talent regardless of age, race, creed, colour, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or any other legally protected grounds and will not discriminate on these bases.

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
• LGBT equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation

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.