Optics Technical Project Manager

Job Description

Come create the technology that helps the world act togetherNokia 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 ofThe pandemic has highlighted how important telecoms networks are to society. Nokia?s Network Infrastructure group is at the heart of a revolution to bring more and faster network capacity to people worldwide through our ambition, innovation, and technical expertise.Our Networks Infrastructure (NI) business group includes IP, Optics and Network Automation technologies and related services sold to our communication service provider customers as well as adjacent markets including webscale companies and enterprises. Our comprehensive solutions enable our customers to build and operate automated, secure, and high-performance networks at massive scale ? helping to interconnect people and things from any broadband access modality to ? and among - edge clouds, central clouds, the Internet, and other services and data centers.As MEA Optics team as part of the Customer Engineering organization in the Network Infrastructure Business Center, we introduce the latest network technologies to our customers. This is done in the form of lab/field testing, demos, workshops, dry run, proof of concept sessions and network integration services.What you will learn and contribute to Your skills and experience Working as team member to develop, design and implement technical support systems or to complete specialty functions; The Technical Project Manager (TPM) supports end to end technical delivery management of NI (Network infrastructure) integration/deployment projects/activities, from offer preparation through deployment activities up to customer acceptance. TPM is responsible for high quality and on-time delivery of all technical deliverables of the Customer Project. TPM serves as key point of contact representing Customer Engineering to the customer and internal groups. Supports all technical aspects of the project and delivers high customer satisfaction of NI products and solutions. TPM works closely with all technical resources (Pre-Sales, Network Designer, Consulting engineers and Integration/implementation engineers) for technical deliverables. Must manage the details of overall deployment project schedules, quality, and deliverables. High project management skills and technical aptitude required. Involves extensive interaction with Pre-Sales, TAC/ TEC/Support Organization, Project/Program Management, Product Line Managers, R&D, Services, and other members of cross-functional teams focused on the support and delivery of customer programs. High interaction across business groups and delivery co-ordination with Global Services/other BGs.Are you passionate about solving problems?As part of our team, you will:

• Serves as a member of the NI Customer Engineering TPM team, assigned to customer NI projects as required for on-time, quality delivery of technical deployment projects.
• Supports end to end delivery management of integration/deployment technical deliverables for NI Customer Engineering. Owns communication, scheduling, resource management, change management, risk mitigation, escalations, and all other areas of integration/deployment technical delivery.
• Identifies the Company?s internal owners of customer?s service and/or quality issues.
• Builds, leads and facilitates teams to address quality issues.
• Facilitates development and deployment of corrective actions to address customer?s issues.
• Drives customer issues with company product, architected solution and or service quality to resolution by tracking, reporting and escalating. Communicates solutions, identifies solution components and owner action item commitments and sets resolution timelines.
• Proper and regular communication during customer Escalation and crisis management
• Identifies roadblocks to customer satisfaction and quality issue resolution. Reports roadblocks to Program Management and the resolution team members.
• Work to optimize the technical solution and identify change orders/up-scopes through change management process.
• Provides overviews of current customer service issues and status of resolution to upper management/stakeholders on short notice ? Accountable for timely and accurate communication on all aspects of the technical deployment project.
• Validates the workload involved and expertise needed related to technical tasks. Ensures resource management related to technical tasks regarding allocation, induction, release and expertise needed.
• Prepares/Contributing and Supporting the PM to provide a comprehensive deployment status report for project stakeholders on a regular (weekly) schedule.

Your skills and experience You have:

• ABachelors in Engineering or Computer Science (Electrical or Computer Engineering preferred) and 10+ years of network integration, technical support with optical network technologies.
• Technical knowledge/expertise in the following:
  • Fiber Types (multimode and single-mode (Dispersion Unshifted, Dispersion Shifted and Non Zero Dispersion Shifted)) and Signal Impairments in Fiber (Loss, Dispersion and Mixing)
  • Modulation / Demodulation (OOK, PSK and QAM)
  • Signal Structures and Hierarchies (Ethernet, Fiber Channel, SONET, SDH and OTN)
  • Fixed/Reconfigurable/Tunable/Colourless, Directionless & Contention less OADMs, In-line Optical Amplifiers, Pre- and Post-Amplifier nodal configurations, dimensioning and optimization.
  • OTN, DWDM and SDH networks reliability and resiliency analysis, planning and design ( O-SNCP,E-SNCP, 1+1 OCh/OMSP) protection based schemes, Electrical GMPLS + Optical GMPLS restoration based schemes).

It would be nice if you also had:

• Technical khowledge/experience in the following:
  • DWDM (1626LM, 1696MS) and SDH (1660SM, 1662SMC, 1646SMC, 1678MCC)

What we offerNokiaoffers 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 programsand highly diverse teams with an inclusive culture where people thrive and are empowered.

• Office at a central location
• on job training
• Frequent team events

Nokia is committed to inclusion and is an equal opportunity employerNokia has received the following recognitions for its commitment to inclusion & equality:

• One of the World?s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
• LGBT+ equality & best place to work by HRC Foundation

At Nokia, we act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people.Nokia?s 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.Join us and be part of a company where you will feel included and empowered to succeed.

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