Job Description
This is a senior leadership role responsible for defining, leading, and executing the strategy for Nokia's foundational cloud-native software platform across AN product portfolio. The role demands a visionary leader with deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, experience with open-source components, and lifecycle management. The leader will oversee a large, geographically dispersed team, fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and agile delivery to ensure Nokia's platforms are robust, scalable, secure, and future-proof to support our evolving product portfolio and customer needs in a cloud-first world.
This role will be part of the new
MI Autonomous Networks organization.
How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn
Strategic Leadership & Cloud-Native Vision:
- Define and articulate the long-term technical vision and strategic roadmap for cloud-native software platform for Autonomous Networks aligning with overall objectives and emerging technology trends.
- Drive architectural decisions and technology choices that ensure platform scalability, performance, security, and maintainability, specifically leveraging cloud-native principles and patterns (e.g., microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures).
- Anticipate future technology needs in the cloud-native space and proactively guide platform evolution.
Open-Source & Kubernetes Ecosystem:
- Champion the strategic adoption, contribution to, and effective utilization of open-source components and technologies within platform development.
- Operationalize Kubernetes-based lifecycle management strategies for all platform components, ensuring efficient deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
- Drive best practices for integrating, securing, and maintaining open-source software within the product ecosystem.
Global Team Management & Development:
- Lead, mentor, and develop a global organization of senior engineering managers, architects, and software developers.
- Foster a high-performance, collaborative, and inclusive culture across diverse geographical locations, promoting continuous learning in cloud-native technologies.
- Implement best practices for talent acquisition, retention, performance management, and career development within the platform software domain.
Engineering Excellence & Innovation:
- Champion engineering best practices, including agile methodologies, DevOps, GitOps, continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) pipelines optimized for cloud-native deployments, and automated testing.
- Drive innovation within platform development, exploring and integrating new cloud-native technologies (e.g., service mesh, observability tools, cloud-native security) to enhance platform capabilities.
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality, reliable, and secure software platforms that meet stringent industry standards.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:
- Collaborate closely with product management, other business units, and customer-facing teams to understand requirements and ensure platform capabilities meet market demands for Autonomous Networks
- Represent AN platform strategy internally and externally, engaging with key customers, partners, and industry forums on cloud-native and open-source topics.
Budget & Resource Management:
- Oversee the annual budget planning and resource allocation for global platform software development initiatives, optimizing for cloud infrastructure and open-source tooling.
Risk Management & Compliance:
- Identify and mitigate technical, operational, and security risks related to platform development and open-source dependencies.
Key Skills And Experience
Education:
- Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field is required.
Experience:
- Minimum 15+ years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in leadership roles managing large global engineering teams.
- Proven track record of successfully leading the development and delivery of complex, large-scale cloud-native software platforms.
- Leadership experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and application lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated expertise in leveraging, contributing to, and managing open-source components and ecosystems.
- Deep understanding and practical experience with various software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, SAFe) and DevOps/GitOps practices tailored for cloud-native environments.
Technical Skills:
- Deep understanding of modern cloud-native architecture principles, distributed systems & microservices.
- Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization technologies.
- Strong grasp of CI/CD tools and practices for cloud-native deployments (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Tekton).
- Familiarity with open source technologies typically used in cloud native platforms (Eg: Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, etc).
- Proficiency in multiple programming languages relevant to cloud-native development (e.g., Go, Python, Java).
Leadership & Soft Skills:
- Exceptional strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with a proven capacity to translate cloud-native vision into actionable plans.
- Outstanding communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, capable of influencing and engaging diverse audiences at all levels.
- Demonstrated ability to build, inspire, and lead high-performing global teams in a matrixed organization.
- Strong business acumen and ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
- High degree of adaptability, resilience, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
