Technical Project Manager

Job Description

As a Technical Project Manager, you will manage all technical activities outlined in the customer contract, ensuring quality execution while mitigating risks and adhering to timelines. Your role will span the entire project lifecycle, from defining the delivery approach to deployment, customer acceptance, and the care phase.

With your expertise in telecom networks and familiarity with 5G, Packet Core, IMS, and IP networks, you will bring experience in at least one of the domains, like Fulfillment, Assurance, Inventory, OSS, Firewall, DNS, Security products, or evaluation.

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

• Act as the technical contact and primary escalation point for medium- and large-sized projects.
• Work with project management and technical teams to ensure smooth execution and operational continuity.
• Manage all technical activities outlined in the customer contract, ensuring quality, mitigating risks, and adhering to timelines.
• Drive technical execution and assist in phase activities, including Core Network Implementation, System Acceptance, and Fault & Escalation Management.
• Conduct technical risk evaluation, propose mitigation strategies, and implement preventive actions.
• Oversee technical resource management, including workload validation, expertise allocation, and onboarding.
• Identify and drive technical opportunities to expand customer contracts like network expansions and feature enhancements.
  
  

Key Skills And Experience

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering/technology, or equivalent, with 10+ years of hands-on experience in project delivery.
• Proven experience in driving virtual teams and driving project activities to completion.
• Strong ability to create, track, and manage technical work breakdown structures.
• Ability to coordinate with global teams and deliver solutions that meet customer business requirements.
• Familiarity with Telecom networks, including 5G, Packet Core, IMS, and IP networks, with experience in at least one domain, such as Fulfillment, Assurance, Inventory, OSS, Firewall, DNS, Security products, or Analytics.
  
  

It would be nice if you also had:

• Skilled in managing tight project timelines, ensuring efficiency, and successful execution.
• Experience in technical management, ensuring alignment with project goals and customer needs.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence and consult customers on areas of expertise.
  
  

About Us

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

What we offer

Nokia offers 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 Ethisphere
• Gender-Equality Index by Bloomberg
• Workplace Pride Global Benchmark
  
  

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.

About The Team

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.