R&D Architect Amadora

R&D Architect
Amadora
Amadora, Lisboa, Portugal

Job Description

The R&D Architect will lead the architecture of Nokia's Open
Telemetry solution, leveraging
- edge
- native technologies on Kubernetes across public cloud and
- premises environments. This role is centered on new reusable software assets, translating
- level business requirements into backlog items and detailed specs for agile teams, while supporting product management,
- sales, and technical teams. As an expert in system integration, you’ll define requirements that consider interactions across components, products, and systems to meet strategic goals.

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

We are looking for a highly skilled R&D Architect to provide direction, contribute to software component development, and manage stakeholders effectively to deliver designs that meet industry standards. As part of the team, you will:

• Provide direction and set expectations for creating new designs and prototypes
• Participate and contribute in complex software development projects
• Manage stakeholders and deliver designs that meet industry standards
• Research, design, plan, develop, and evaluate new advanced network technologies
• Assess customer networked application needs, conduct network modeling and simulation testing, and engineer
  - speed technology network transports
• Determine system specifications, input/output processes, and hardware/software compatibility
• Work together with other architects, contributing to common initiatives and leading new ones
  
  

Key Skills And Experience

You have:

• Kubernetes: You deeply understand container technology and Kubernetes, including building API extensions to manage complex applications.
• Distributed Systems: You have 15+ years of experience architecting and scaling resilient,
  - performance distributed systems, ideally in observability or
  - driven products.
• Requirements Engineering: You can define and refine both functional and
  - functional requirements to ensure clear product goals.
• Backend Development: You are skilled in Golang for building scalable, efficient backends for
  - scale data processing.
• Cloud-Native & Dev
  Ops: You have a strong foundation in
  - native and Dev
  Ops practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure as code, system reliability, root cause analysis, and performance optimization.
• Cloud Engineering: You have strong cloud engineering skills with experience deploying in both
  - prem and public cloud environments.
  
  

It would be nice if you also had:

• Systems Thinking & Detail Orientation: You can see the big picture and pay attention to the details, ensuring complex systems are built with precision and reliability.
• Observability Tools: You are familiar with modern
  - source observability tools like Open
  Telemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Open
  Search, and Homer.
• Communication & Leadership: You are an excellent communicator, able to deliver presentations and detailed specifications. You are fluent in English and have a collaborative approach
• Frontend Expertise: You are proficient in frontend development using React and modern web application frameworks, with experience in SSR, web sockets, Webpack module federation, and Graph
  QL.
  
  

Please note: We understand that not everyone will have experience in all of these areas. If you have a strong foundation in most of the required skills and a passion for learning, we encourage you to apply.

About Us

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

What we offer

Nokia offers continuous learning opportunities,
- 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

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
  
  

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.

Additional Information

US/Canada Nokia Offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes but is not limited to:

• Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
• Health and dental benefits
• Short-term disability, and
  - term disability
• Life insurance, and AD&D – Company paid 2x base pay
• Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Assistance Plan
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program
  
  

The above benefits exclude students. Disclaimer for US/Canada

Nokia Maintains broad annual base salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience and market conditions, and with consideration to internal peer equity. (Check the salary ranges in the job info section for this role)

All North America job posts will post for a minimum of 7 calendar days and up to 180 days or until candidate/s identified.

About The Team

As Nokia's growth engine, we create value for communication service providers and enterprise customers by leading the transition to
- native software and
-
- service delivery models. Our inclusive team of dreamers, doers and disruptors push the limits from impossible to possible. #J-18808-Ljbffr