What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chief Architect, Packet Core & AI position at Nokia?
Job Description
What you’ll do
Nice to have
What you’ll do
- Own and drive the Packet Core technical strategy, including target architecture and a multi-year modernization roadmap.
- Define architectural evolution required to enable network slicing and AI-enabled services, including the transition toward distributed UPF and edge-ready deployments.
- Identify any technology gaps and establish clear technical priorities, decision frameworks, and alignment across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- Accelerate AI/ML and agentic AI adoption for simplification and operational improvements (e.g., automation, optimization, anomaly detection, analytics-driven troubleshooting).
- Partner with broader network architecture efforts to ensure coherent end-to-end design across Radio Access Network (RAN), transport, edge, and data center domains as well as address services like ISAC, physical AI.
- Represent Packet Core architecture in senior technical forums; produce high-quality architecture artifacts and communicate trade-offs clearly.
- Extensive experience in telecom network architecture and Packet Core (EPC and/or 5G Core), including service-based architectures.
- Demonstrated ability to define strategy, create roadmaps, and drive alignment across multiple organizations.
- Strong systems engineering and architecture skills (performance, resiliency, scalability, security, and operability).
- Proven leadership in complex, cross-functional technical programs, and architecture decision-making at senior levels.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML applications for network automation, optimization, and operational simplification.
- Acts as mentor to product architects and provides technical leadership in several technical areas.
- Evaluates new technologies and sets a direction for future technology capability demands.
- Has ability to guide and create the end-to-end system design & development of a product.
- Researches, designs, plans, develops and / or evaluates new advanced network technologies by translating customer requirements or strategic business objectives into final product design.
- Work typically includes in-depth assessment of the customer's networked application needs, providing network modelling and simulation testing, consulting to further clarify needs, and engineering high-speed technology network transports to deliver application functionality.
- Designs, defines and implements integrated hardware / software systems requirements for customers and / or prepares studies and analyses existing systems.
- Determines system specifications, input / output processes and working parameters for hardware / software compatibility.
- Coordinates design of subsystems and integration of total system.
- Identifies, analyses and resolves programme support deficiencies.
- Develops and recommends corrective actions.
- Significantly influences strategic decisions in the professional area through expertise, in turn impacting the performance of the sub-function to create competitive advantage.
- Solves highly complex problems and develops original and innovative solutions with broad impact on the business.
- Monitors and guides professional developments and the strategy for a business-relevant organisational unit.
- Is an acknowledged and externally visible authority and strategic expert, typically within a key business function.
- Often leads projects with significant risk and complexity and develops project strategy.
Nice to have
- Experience with cloud-native network functions (CNFs), Kubernetes-based deployments, and distributed/edge cloud architectures.
- Hands-on experience with observability and operations tooling for carrier-grade systems.
- Standards participation, patents, publications, or other recognized thought leadership in mobile core networking and automation.