Technical Manager

**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.

**The team you'll be part of**

Cloud and Network Services is a leading Nokia business group that offers Network solutions on Core, Business and Enterprise segments, as well as Cloud solutions and Cognitive Services. We are in the Market Services, the organization responsible to delivery, deployment and support all CNS Solutions, delivering high quality projects, on time and on budget and ensure deployed solutions meet customer needs. In the team, we are focused on the Core Network solutions including both voice and packet core, as well as Cloud solutions.

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

**What you will learn and contribute to**

The Technical Manager has overall responsibility for the technical success of the project. Supports the project manager by providing insight into technical planning and execution issues. Leads the technical team through the entire duration of the project. Acts as the primary technical communications contact for the customer.

The Technical Manager manage and control implementation of all project technical aspects (end-to-end) within contractual scope; manage technical solution documents (requirements, architecture etc.) following contract signature & during execution; manages technical aspects/activities within the project - including requirements, development, integration and testing; provide status & results to PM as arranged/requested; primary customer interface for management aspects related to the technical solution. Responsible for obtaining formal customer sign-off on requirements and technical acceptance of solution.
- Establish and manage an agreed configuration management plan, defining technical baselines and adherence to them. Assessment and control of technical activities.
- Lead the development of the Solution Validation Strategy.
- Identify and agree on the deliverables to be generated, defining the responsibility for each deliverable, monitoring and reporting on progress, and managing deliverable review and acceptance. Determine the quality activities required to support technical delivery.
- Define the document review and acceptance process.
- Plan and manage implementations of approved changes to the technical baseline.
- Technical Risk Identification and mitigation: Proactively seek to identify and address technical risks. Conduct preliminary risk assessments on the project and all suppliers; ensuring a constant focus on risk identification and potential impact assessment; identifying and executing mitigation strategies to limit impact; support on reporting of risk exposure (cost, schedule, other); escalating, as appropriate.
- Technical support, manage, review 3rd party suppliers and vendors - ensuring that all parties involved in the solution development (project team, the customer, 3rd party suppliers, subsystem design team) crearly understood their technical scope/objective. Continually monitor and assess vendor’s performance.

**Your skills and experience**

Bachelor’s degree in engineering (Telecommunications, Computer, Computer Science, Electronics or related) with experience in telecommunication area.

The Technical Manager must master the Core Network for Mobile Telecommunications area including IMS Core for VoX (VoLTE, VoWiFi, VoNR, IMS for Fixed), Subscriber Data Management (SDM/UDC), CS Core (MSS and MGW), Telco Cloud and Public Cloud (CNF and VNF) and also should master IP Connectivity.

You have:

- Technical Management process skills
- Business understanding and development
- Customer Focus
- Leadership & Management
- Spanish speaker(mandatory)
- Fluency in English

It would be nice if you also have:

- PMP Certification
- Scrum Certification

**What we offer**

Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous learning opportunities, well-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 Ethisph