Customer Technical Project Manager

Job Description

As a Customer Technical Project Manager, you will lead key technical activities during the project execution phase, such as Core Network Implementation, System Acceptance, and Multi-Vendor Interface Verification. You’ll guide and motivate technical teams, set clear priorities, and ensure they have the right tools and support to succeed.

Your role includes managing risks, resolving issues, and maintaining high-quality deliverables that meet defined standards. You'll act as a critical link between teams and stakeholders—communicating updates, addressing challenges, and ensuring a smooth transition to operations in collaboration with the Project Execution Owner.

How You Will Contribute And What You Will Learn

• Leads technical activities during the execution phase, including Core Network Implementation, System Acceptance, Multi-Vendor Interface Verification, and managing faults and technical escalations.
• Guides and motivates technical teams by assigning tasks, setting priorities, and ensuring access to necessary resources.
• Identifies project risks, develops mitigation strategies, and ensures alignment with timelines and objectives.
• Ensures the quality of deliverables meets defined standards and project requirements.
• Communicates project progress, updates, and issues clearly to stakeholders including clients, team members, and management.
• Supports the Project Execution Owner (PEO) in ensuring a smooth handover to operations and confirms successful implementation of all key actions.
  
  

Key Skills And Experience

You Have:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or equivalent
• 12+ year of Telecom deployment experience in Packet core
• PaCo deployment (MME, SGW, PGW, UPF, SGSN, GGSN, DNS etc)
  
  

If you also had:

• IMS & SDM deployment experience
  
  

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.