5G Solution Architect
Nokia
IT
Mexico
Posted on Dec 16, 2025
As a 5G Solutions Architect, you'll serve as a trusted advisor, collaborating closely with customers to understand their unique needs and strategic goals. You'll gather and interpret critical stakeholder inputs, transforming them into clear, actionable requirements and innovative solutions. Leveraging Nokia’s comprehensive Core & Autonomous Networks portfolio—alongside third-party products when needed—you’ll design and specify robust, end-to-end architectures tailored to each customer. Your work will uphold the highest standards of solution architecture, ensuring technical integrity, scalability, and long-term value.
Advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.
Nokia is a global leader in connectivity for the AI era. With expertise across fixed, mobile and transport networks, powered by the innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we’re advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.
About the Business Group
In Cloud and Network Services, 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.
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Some of our benefits:
- Flexible and hybrid working schemes
- A minimum of 90 days of Maternity and Paternity Leave, with the option to return to work within a year following the birth or adoption of a child (based on eligibility)
- Life insurance to all employees to provide peace of mind and financial security
- Well-being programs to support your mental and physical health
- Opportunities to join and receive support from Nokia Employee Resource Groups (NERGs)
- Employee Growth Solutions to support your personalized career & skills development
- Diverse pool of Coaches & Mentors to whom you have easy access
- A learning environment which promotes personal growth and professional development - for your role and beyond
The Customer Solutions Team acts as trusted advisers partnering with the customers on their needs, by understanding and capturing the critical inputs of stakeholders and translating them into effective requirements and solutions.
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in building end to end architectures and designs for large telecom networks.
- Experience and expertise with cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, CNI, CSI, Service Mesh, Docker, and OpenStack.
- Comprehensive understanding of 5G and IMS Architecture from an end-to-end perspective.
- Knowledge of HTTP2 and the role of various 5G interfaces.
- Expertise in 5G Core components, including UDM/AUSF and SDL.
- Experience with implementation of Analytics & Assurance solutions in context of large telecom networks
- Good understanding of Data management principles across Data acquisition , governance, quality, Security and protection
- Good understanding of 5G RAN and its interaction with various 5G Core Network functions.
- Proactively identified potential security technical risks/issues.
- Served as a trusted advisor to product teams, program teams, and customers to implement security best practices.
- Good presentation skills and effective communicator in English language
It would be nice if you also had:
- Experience in Tier-1 and complex multivendor telecom core networks in IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Subscriber Data Management (SDM), IP Networking, and Cloud platforms.
- Experience in Red Hat OpenShift
- Understanding of Service Management & Orchestration, 5G Slicing ,etc
- A bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
- Designs customer-specific architectures within a defined area of expertise, aligning solutions with business needs and technical requirements.
- Identifies relevant Business Groups (BGs) and orchestrates cross-BG collaboration during the initial phases of solution development.
- Develops comprehensive end-to-end solutions, encompassing both high-level and low-level architectural design, tailored to customer needs and market positioning.
- Leads the development of full-scope solutions by coordinating across organizational boundaries to deliver cohesive, viable outcomes.
- Lead the technological evolution in customer’s ecosystem based on proposed solution.
- Ensures continuous alignment of solutions with evolving client requirements through rigorous validation and lifecycle governance.
- Drives the evolution of concepts and methodologies that influence the strategic trajectory of the team or business unit.
- Serves as a subject matter expert and thought leader, mentoring teams and acting as a key resource for best practices within the organization.
- Adopt & propagate usage of AI and Automation in service delivery of large-scale solutions.
- Frequently leads functional teams or projects of moderate complexity, overseeing resource planning, task allocation, and day-to-day team management.