Solution Architecture & Demands Lead

Family Description

Information Technology (IT) acts as an internal function the developing, running, and maintaining of the IT systems and platforms Nokia is running on. Develops and maintains applications to meet the business needs of the organization. Covers the performance and monitoring of day-to-day database and system activities as well as the provision of remote support to users regarding hardware and software problems.

Subfamily Description I

T Architecture (IAM) comprises the definition and management of enterprise architecture (including solution, security, process & information, and integration architecture), which aligns with and supports Nokia's business strategy, mode of operation, and business needs.

Impact

Impact is long-term through individual and team contributions. Scope is primarily within own subject area in a function/unit. Actions and errors impact on program, project or function. Provides measurable input into new products, processes, standards or operational plans in support of the organization's business strategies, with some impact on business unit/ function overall results.

Scope & Contribution

People Manager: Manage geographically distributed team across multiple time zones. Can analyze, develop and implement concepts and solutions as a subject matter expert. Increased awareness of and involvement outside of own subject area. Distills big picture. Makes decisions about and prioritizes team assignments. Managerial/Supervisory: Clear managerial responsibilities for people. Typically first level of solid line management. Interprets policies. Ensures existing plans are put into operation. Executes and/or oversees processes to meet customer needs. Responsible for analysis, design & development of policies, plans, programs.

Innovation

Carries out specialized activities/projects according to general direction. Influences others to support decisions. Work to develop new team members. Analyze situations or data that requires review of relevant factors. Solutions can often be checked and proved. Demonstrates success in multiple roles and is adaptable to manage complex changing business environments.

Communication

Communicates with parties within and outside of own job function and teams and typically has responsibilities for communicating with parties external to the organization, which may include customers or vendors. Works to influence others to accept job functions view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches. Has cross-cultural knowledge and global mindset Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the organization. May conduct briefings with senior leaders within the job function. May at times be required to negotiate regarding operational issues.

Knowledge & Experience

Management Experience / Achieved well-advanced skills of a specific professional discipline combining deep knowledge of theory and organizational practice or expertise. Recognized expert in their field (depth & breadth). Typically requires 5-8 years extensive relevant experience and/or a graduate / postgraduate equivalent degree.

• 5+ years of overall experience in Cloud architecture
• Experience leading or managing an Architecture Team
• Working with geographically distributed team across multiple time zones
• 3-5 years Infrastructure or Solution Architecture Experience designing and implementing cloud-based solution architectures for PaaS, IaaS or SaaS.
• Hands on experience with one of the three primary public clouds: AWS, GCP (preferred), or Azure.
• Experience designing and implementing the foundational elements in a cloud architecture
• Knowledge or experience designing and implementing automation solutions like Infrastructure as Code (IAC) solutions to build up and tear down infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, GCP Deployment Manager, or Azure DevOps
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.

Soft Skills

• Focused on quality and delivering results
• Take ownership and accountability
• Flexible in taking up different roles and tackling multiple technologies
• Work collaboratively on projects and help achieving company goals
• Strong analytic, organization, presentation, customer service and facilitation skills
• Ability to prioritize and execute on multiple concurrent initiatives with related or independent goals
• Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers
• Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
• Cost analysis and management
• Decision making/strategic thinking/negotiation skills
• Program management skills
• Leadership skills
• Talent management
• General management
• Problem solving skills
• Influencing others/working across boundaries
• Internal and External stakeholder management

As part of our team, the Solution Architecture & Demands Lead will oversee a team of Cloud Engineers, Solution Architects & Individual Contributors reporting to you and carry out the following:

• Managing the Solution Architecture Team
• Design efficient, secure, adaptable, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions (data, networking, application)
• Drive all technical design and execution activities for moving existing on-premise infrastructure, server workloads, data and applications to the cloud IaaS and PaaS architectures.
• Communicate and socialize design and architecture design decisions.
• Communicate with senior leaders regarding the architecture, discuss problems and recommend solutions and improvements.
• Interact and work with application and business team members to provide the optimal environment for applications to deliver business functionality.
• Introduce and develop Infrastructure automation in the environment including IAC, CI/CD pipelines, and automated configuration management.
• Migration of workloads from on-premise/datacenter to Cloud
• Drive self-service automation initiatives
• Drive Product roadmap for Azure, GCP and AWS
• Drive generative AI initiatives
• Anticipates internal and external business challenges based on working experience and / or regulatory issues and drives independently improvements that create competitive advantage.
• Provides guidance on projects solution design compliance with enterprise architecture and makes recommendations for alignment, quality and efficiency based on experience.
• May be assigned to a particular project or program to ensure technical / architectural integrity and consistency of the solution