Qualifications:
Hands-on and detailed oriented Project Manager with telecom background and 5 to 10 years of experience in customer delivery and SW development projects
Overall, we are looking for individuals with a “PM DNA” who take ownership and responsibility for their projects, work with minimal supervision, and able to represent Nokia in front of the customer.
Good communication skills including English fluency is a must.
The focus on this position is on managing project work, creating schedules, defining resource plan, tracking project costs, tracking deliverables, reporting status, reviewing statement of work, creating presentations, setting meetings, and leading the engineers, technical managers, and architects in the project team.
Tracking and scheduling activities in both non-production and production environments.
Knowledge of SW development lifecycle is a plus and well as managing the quality of the SW delivered by the R&D organizations. Other activities include managing Maintenance Windows, creating
Maintenance Window documentation, creating Power Point Deck for status reporting, and being the single point of escalation for project issues. Also desired good proficiency on MS-Office tools especially MS-Project.
Expert level technical knowledge is not a requirement but willingness to learn and keep up with new technology is a must.
We value a technical background and experience specially in telecommunications.
Projects may involve and require high level knowledge of Packet Core, VNF concepts, 5 G, Cloud migration, and AWS integration and deployment as well as knowledge of IMS/SDL concepts and architecture, and strong preference on 5 G and Cloud deployments.

Special focus might include
messaging services including MMSC, SMS-GW and MSA platforms. Projects might include lab testing in Nokia or in customer labs, green field deployments, expansion, migration, virtualization, upgrades, and Care work.
Experience with hardware deployments and managing hardware inventory and shipments may also be required for specific projects.
Experience with Big data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning projects could be a requirement for specific projects.