This is a senior leadership role responsible for defining, leading, and executing the strategy for Nokia's foundational cloud-native software platform across AN product portfolio. The role demands a visionary leader with deep expertise in cloud-native architectures, experience with open-source components, and lifecycle management. The leader will oversee a large, geographically dispersed team, fostering a culture of innovation, technical excellence, and agile delivery to ensure Nokia's platforms are robust, scalable, secure, and future-proof to support our evolving product portfolio and customer needs in a cloud-first world.
This role will be part of the new MI Autonomous Networks organization.
Strategic Leadership & Cloud-Native Vision:
Define and articulate the long-term technical vision and strategic roadmap for cloud-native software platform for Autonomous Networks aligning with overall objectives and emerging technology trends.
Drive architectural decisions and technology choices that ensure platform scalability, performance, security, and maintainability, specifically leveraging cloud-native principles and patterns (e.g., microservices, serverless, event-driven architectures).
Anticipate future technology needs in the cloud-native space and proactively guide platform evolution.
Open-Source & Kubernetes Ecosystem:
Champion the strategic adoption, contribution to, and effective utilization of open-source components and technologies within platform development.
Operationalize Kubernetes-based lifecycle management strategies for all platform components, ensuring efficient deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Drive best practices for integrating, securing, and maintaining open-source software within the product ecosystem.
Global Team Management & Development:
Lead, mentor, and develop a global organization of senior engineering managers, architects, and software developers.
Foster a high-performance, collaborative, and inclusive culture across diverse geographical locations, promoting continuous learning in cloud-native technologies.
Implement best practices for talent acquisition, retention, performance management, and career development within the platform software domain.
Engineering Excellence & Innovation:
Champion engineering best practices, including agile methodologies, DevOps, GitOps, continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) pipelines optimized for cloud-native deployments, and automated testing.
Drive innovation within platform development, exploring and integrating new cloud-native technologies (e.g., service mesh, observability tools, cloud-native security) to enhance platform capabilities.
Ensure the delivery of high-quality, reliable, and secure software platforms that meet stringent industry standards.
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:
Collaborate closely with product management, other business units, and customer-facing teams to understand requirements and ensure platform capabilities meet market demands for Autonomous Networks
Represent AN platform strategy internally and externally, engaging with key customers, partners, and industry forums on cloud-native and open-source topics.
Budget & Resource Management:
Oversee the annual budget planning and resource allocation for global platform software development initiatives, optimizing for cloud infrastructure and open-source tooling.
Risk Management & Compliance:
Identify and mitigate technical, operational, and security risks related to platform development and open-source dependencies.
Education:
Bachelors or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field is required.
Experience:
Minimum 15+ years of experience in software development, with at least 5 years in leadership roles managing large global engineering teams.
Proven track record of successfully leading the development and delivery of complex, large-scale cloud-native software platforms.
Leadership experience with Kubernetes for container orchestration and application lifecycle management.
Demonstrated expertise in leveraging, contributing to, and managing open-source components and ecosystems.
Deep understanding and practical experience with various software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, SAFe) and DevOps/GitOps practices tailored for cloud-native environments.
Technical Skills:
Deep understanding of modern cloud-native architecture principles, distributed systems & microservices.
Expert-level knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and containerization technologies.
Strong grasp of CI/CD tools and practices for cloud-native deployments (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Tekton).
Familiarity with open source technologies typically used in cloud native platforms (Eg: Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, etc).
Proficiency in multiple programming languages relevant to cloud-native development (e.g., Go, Python, Java).
Leadership & Soft Skills:
Exceptional strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities, with a proven capacity to translate cloud-native vision into actionable plans.
Outstanding communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, capable of influencing and engaging diverse audiences at all levels.
Demonstrated ability to build, inspire, and lead high-performing global teams in a matrixed organization.
Strong business acumen and ability to connect technical decisions to business outcomes.
High degree of adaptability, resilience, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
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