Job Description

The Domain Architects Architect acts as a trusted advisor partnering with the customers on their needs. Understands and captures the critical inputs of stakeholders and translates them into effective requirements and solutions. Specifies and designs effective end-to-end solutions incl.

customer-specific adaptations by using the Nokia portfolio of products, systems and / or services as well as 3rd party products where required.

Applies solution architecture standards, processes, and principles to create and maintain a solution's (technical) integrity over time. The Domain Architect leads end-to-end solution architecture for customer programs within the Telecom domain. This role defines, designs, and governs complex architectures across Cloud Native Solutions and emerging 5G/6G technologies—ensuring technical integrity, customer value, scalability, and lifecycle sustainability

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

Architecture & Solution Design

Develop customer-specific end-to-end architecture across Cloud, Core, RAN, and Telco workloads (5G SA/NSA, 6G readiness).
Deliver High-Level Design (HLD) and Low-Level Design (LLD) with clear traceability to requirements.
Translate functional and non-functional requirements into scalable, secure, and performant architectures.
Ensure architectural alignment with industry standards (3GPP, ETSI, TM Forum, CNCF).
Govern architecture integrity throughout project lifecycle, ensuring compliance, consistency, and extensibility.

Cloud & DevOps Leadership

Design customer-specific cloud architectures on NCP, OCP, NCOM, and public cloud platforms (AWS, GCP/GKE).
Provide hands-on expertise in Cloud Native, Kubernetes, CaaS, microservices, and container orchestration.
Collaborate with cloud integrators on deployment, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
Lead DevOps initiatives using CI/CD, GitOps, automation pipelines; experience with Terraform, Crossplane, CloudFormation highly valued.

Customer Engagement & Requirements Management

Capture, validate, and manage customer requirements, ensuring alignment across Business Groups.
Drive stakeholder workshops, architecture reviews, and technical discussions.
Influence customer technical strategy and participate in key solution selling and pre-sales engagements.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Coordinate cross-BG/BU architecture components to build cohesive, interoperable solutions.
Collaborate with Network Planning, R&D, Product Line, and Delivery teams for solution feasibility and efficiency.
Provide architectural guidance across multi-disciplinary engineering teams.

Thought Leadership & Strategic Contribution

Contribute to technology strategy, solution blueprints, and reference architectures.

Lead initiatives on emerging trends such as 5G Core evolution, 6G systems, Network Slicing, O-RAN, Edge Computing, and Cloud Native Telco.

Act as senior technical mentor; coach engineering and integration teams on best practices.
Solve complex architectural challenges through advanced analytical and domain expertise.

Key Skills And Experience

Technical Expertise

Strong background in Telecom Cloud, 5G SA/NSA Core, Telco CNFs/VNFs, and Cloud Native architecture.
Expertise in Kubernetes, CaaS platforms, service mesh, and observability frameworks.
Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automation tools, and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Crossplane/CloudFormation).
Solid understanding of Telco protocols (SBI, Diameter, GTP, SCTP), Network Slicing, and Edge/MEC.
Cloud implementation experience in AWS, GCP/GKE, or similar platforms.

Professional & Leadership Skills

Strong techno-managerial experience in complex architecture delivery programs.
Ability to lead multi-functional technical teams and manage architecture governance.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Excellent communication and customer-facing capabilities.

Drive innovation-led architecture thinking, introducing modern design patterns, automation frameworks, and cloud-native accelerators to reduce delivery overhead and improve long-term maintainability.

Identify architecture reuse opportunities (blueprints, modules, CI/CD templates, IaC patterns) to minimize rework, reduce cycle time, and improve overall engineering efficiency.

Evaluate emerging technologies—such as AI-driven orchestration, autonomous networks, 5G/6G advanced features, and edge intelligence—to enhance solution competitiveness and customer value.

Develop forward-looking technology roadmaps that support customer business evolution while optimizing cost-to-serve and maximizing ROI.
Implement architecture governance practices to ensure early defect detection, dependency minimization, and alignment across BUs/BGs—drastically reducing late-stage redesigns.
Introduce metrics-driven decision-making (architecture KPIs, TCO tracking, cloud efficiency metrics) to optimize architecture choices and financial sustainability.
Promote a culture of experimentation and prototyping (PoCs, innovation sprints) to validate concepts early and avoid downstream effort wastage.

Partner with Product Management and Customer teams to identify new value streams, upsell/cross-sell opportunities, and scalable solution components that enhance recurring revenue.

Apply strategic risk assessment and scenario analysis to guide technology investments that yield measurable business benefits for both customer and organization.

Strategic Contribution, Innovation & Continuous Optimization

Solves complex problems based on sophisticated analytical thought and complex judgment.
Contributes to development of concepts to determine professional direction of own organisational unit.

Acts as a professional leader for staff / workteam / taskforces, often the most senior specialist in a team, who serves as best practice resource within own organisational unit and / or is recognised as an expert within the same professional area in the business.

Often leads functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk and complexity, handles day-to-day staff management issues, including resource management and allocation of work.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field (Master's preferred).
4+ years in solution architecture and cloud-native design (Telco experience highly preferred).
Certifications in Cloud (AWS, GCP) , Architecture frameworks (TOGAF) ,
Certification in Kubernetes ( like CKA) , Ansible , Terraform are Mandatory.

Preferred to have People who can speak both English and Japanese fluently

About Us

About Nokia

Join us in creating the technology that helps the world act together.

We are a B2B technology innovation leader, pioneering networks that sense, think and act, putting the world's people, machines and devices in sync to create a more sustainable, productive and accessible future.

Learn more about life at Nokia .

About The Business Group

In Cloud and Network Services, 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.

Our recruitment process

We act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.

Our 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.

If you're interested in this role but don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply.

Unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences enrich our teams, and you may be just the right candidate for this or another opportunity.

The length of the recruitment process may vary depending on the specific role's requirements. We strive to ensure a smooth and inclusive experience for all candidates. Discover more about the recruitment process at Nokia .
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