Senior System Architect

Nokia; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,600,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Nokia in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Systems Architect to define and translate product and architectural requirements, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive architecture decisions for optical and telecom systems.

You will lead cross-disciplinary teams, document specifications, assess feasibility of feature requests, and ensure alignment with the architecture across HW/SW interfaces.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree required in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunication or equivalent.
• Experience with defining requirements and architecture for optical transport or multi-layer networking systems.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and clarify system and product concepts, features and requirements, including customer use cases and experience expectations.
• Translate product requirements into system architectural specifications and requirements.
• Collaborate with architects, ASIC designers, optical front-end designers and HW/SW teams to establish SW architectural specifications.
• Lead cross-functional feature teams to build consensus on product architecture and technical concepts.
• Document product architecture, requirements and concepts clearly and consistently in specifications.

Education

Advanced graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunication or equivalent education.

Job description

Nokia is a global leader in connectivity for the AI era, providing the critical network infrastructure the world relies on.

Every day, we’re powering our customers with advanced connectivity across fixed, mobile and transport networks, delivering the performance and security they need to meet the demands of an AI-enabled future

About the Role

Your responsibilities

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• Advanced graduate degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunication or equivalent education.


• Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience.


• Relevant work experience in optical transport systems or related fields in telecommunications.

Required Skills

• 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.