Customer Architect

NOKIA
$121,030-$224,770 Plus eligible for incentives/variable pay.
United States, Texas, Dallas
3201 Olympus Boulevard (Show on map)
Nov 17, 2025
As a Customer 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 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. 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. 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. Frequently leads functional teams or projects of moderate complexity, overseeing resource planning, task allocation, and day-to-day team management. You Have: Minimum of 5 years of experience in building security architectures and designs for large telecom networks. Experience with cloud-native technologies, including Kubernetes (K8s), Helm, CNI, CSI, Service Mesh, Docker, and OpenStack. Assessed security vulnerabilities across the solution and designed and enforced mitigation strategies and solutions. Understanding of network protocols (IPSec, SSL/TLS), frameworks (NIST, CIS, etc.), cryptography/encryption techniques, SIEM tools, endpoint security, and security best practices (DFSEC, DevSecOps, etc.). Proactively identified potential security risks/issues. Served as a trusted advisor to product teams, program teams, and customers to implement security best practices. 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 A bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related discipline. About Nokia Join us in creating the technology that helps the world act together. We are a B2B technology innovation leader, pioneering networks that sense, think and act, putting the world's people, machines and devices in sync to create a more sustainable, productive and accessible future. Learn more about life at Nokia. 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. Our recruitment process We act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Our employment decisions are made regardless of race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. We are committed to a culture of inclusion built upon our core value of respect. If you're interested in this role but don't meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences enrich our teams, and you may be just the right candidate for this or another opportunity. The length of the recruitment process may vary depending on the specific role's requirements. We strive to ensure a smooth and inclusive experience for all candidates. Discover more about the recruitment process at Nokia.