R&D Lead

Job Description
We are seeking R&D Lead who can drive and oversee the development of advanced features, ensuring efficiency, scalability, and reliability. Provide technical guidance, support teams, and contribute to system architecture using cloud-native approaches.

Manage feature implementation, enhance code quality, and optimize system performance. Analyze requirements, collaborate with stakeholders, and ensure compliance with industry standards. Mentor engineers, foster best practices, and shape strategic decisions to tackle complex technical challenges.

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

• Drive the development of high-complexity features, ensuring performance, scalability, and quality.
• Design and develop system components using cloud-native principles, ensuring security, scalability, and efficiency.
• Analyze requirements, engage with stakeholders, and deliver architectural solutions that align with industry standards.
• Provide technical guidance to software engineers, promote best practices, and communicate competence development needs.

Key Skills And Experience
You have:

• 15+ years in telecom-grade product development with expertise in designing and architecting solutions.
• Expert in Core Java or C++ with strong analytical, debugging, and multi-threaded system programming skills for real-time, high-performance, fault-tolerant systems.
• Practical experience with Cloud Native, Microservices, Containers (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift), Virtualization (VMware, OpenStack), and orchestration tools (Helm, Envoy, Consul, Redis, gRPC).
• Deep knowledge of 4G/5G, Signaling, 3GPP standards, and protocols like PCRF, Diameter, and HTTP/2.
• Proficient in Linux Containers, Namespaces, CGroups, component lifecycle management, and large-scale production environments.

It would be nice if you also had:

• Experience with cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, RedHat OCP, and working with open-source PaaS environments.
• Strong innovation mindset, ability to scale solutions, lead teams, drive collaboration, and ensure resource optimization.
• Ability to handle ambiguity, work under stress, prioritize customer needs, and engage key stakeholders for business success.

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.

Additional Information
US/Canada Nokia Offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes but is not limited to:

• Corporate Retirement Savings Plan
• Health and dental benefits
• Short-term disability, and long-term disability
• Life insurance, and AD&D – Company paid 2x base pay
• Optional or Supplemental life and AD&D insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Paid time off for holidays and Vacation
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Tuition Assistance Plan
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Assistance Program/Work Life Resource Program

The above benefits exclude students.
Disclaimer for US/Canada
Nokia Maintains broad annual base salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience and market conditions, and with consideration to internal peer equity.(Check the salary ranges in the job info section for this role)

All North America job posts will post for a minimum of 7 calendar days and up to 180 days or until candidate/s identified.
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.