Architect - Packet Core

Rakuten Kobo Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Rakuten Symphony in Bengaluru, India seeks a PaCo and 5G SA architect to design and plan for 5G SA nodes such as SMF, AMF, MME, PCF, UPF, including network integration across multi-vendor platforms.

You will develop customer solution architectures, collaborate with stakeholders, apply architecture standards, and ensure the solution meets client requirements while guiding teams across regions. The role emphasizes innovative telecom platforms and cloud-native practices.

Qualifications

• Experience designing multi-vendor 5G SA architectures.
• Knowledge of 5G core, MEC, and network data/signaling flows.
• Understanding of system engineering and testing in wireless networks.

Responsibilities

• Develops customer solution architecture in dedicated area of competence.
• Captures stakeholder inputs and translates them into requirements and solutions.
• Applies standards to maintain solution integrity over time and ensure client requirements are met.
• Mentors staff and acts as a professional advisor within the team.
• Works across a mixed environment to improve products and services.

Skills

5G knowledge

SA/NR architectures

System engineering

Multi-vendor integration

OSS/BSS awareness

Job description

Job Description

PaCo and 5G SA architect to work on design and planning for 5G SA nodes e.g. SMF, AMF, MME, BSF, PCF, UPF etc.

PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develops customer solution architecture in dedicated area of competence.
• Keeps the knowledge of the dedicated customer architecture in dedicated technical area and regional requirements.
• Understands and captures the critical inputs of stakeholders and translates them into effective requirements and solutions.
• Applies solution architecture standards processes and principles, to create and maintain a solution's integrity over time, including verification that the solution meets the client’s requirements.
• Applies solution architecture standards processes and principles, to create and maintain a solution's integrity over time.
• Works effectively in a mixed environment and uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services.
• Has in-depth business knowledge and uses understanding of how relevant areas integrate to achieve objectives.
• Shares initial ideas for professional direction of own organisational unit.
• Acts as a professional advisor and mentor for staff / workteam / taskforces.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Create solution design, including architecture and overall solution integration using multi-vendor, cross-geo strategy.
• Blueprint solutions using cloud native 5G technologies by applying proven methods and methodologies.
• Possess experience with System Engineering, Design, and Testing, and have knowledge of wireless networks, 5G, access, SA, NR, core, MEC, NaaS/APIs, L1/L2/L3, fronthaul/backhaul concepts.
• Have experience with OSS/BSS and OAM services in 4G and 5G deployments.
• Possess knowledge of 5G/4G network elements and functionality, including architecture, concepts, and network flows for data, voice, messaging, signaling, etc.
• Have an excellent understanding of the application of 5G across industry-verticals (manufacturing, automotive, retail, etc.) to create value propositions for enterprises.
• Possess knowledge of the private wireless (5G) and IIoT ecosystem and integration points: monitoring, alarming, performance, inventory, etc.

Rakuten Symphony is reimagining telecom, changing supply chain norms and disrupting outmoded thinking that threatens the industry's pursuit of rapid innovation and growth.

Based on proven modern infrastructure practices, its open interface platforms make it possible to launch and operate advanced mobile services in a fraction of the time and cost of conventional approaches, with no compromise to network quality or security.

Rakuten Symphony has operations in Japan, the United States, Singapore, India, South Korea, Europe, and the Middle East Africa region.

For more information, visit: https://symphony.rakuten.com Building on the technology Rakuten used to launch Japan's newest mobile network, we are taking our mobile offering global.

To support our ambitions to provide an innovative cloud-native telco platform for our customers, Rakuten Symphony is looking to recruit and develop top talent from around the globe.

We are looking for individuals to join our team across all functional areas of our business - from sales to engineering, support functions to product development.

Let's build the future of mobile telecommunications together!