R&D Lead at Nokia

Date: 2 days ago
City: Kanata, ON
Contract type: Full time
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

Advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.

Nokia is a global leader in connectivity for the AI era. With expertise across fixed, mobile and transport networks, powered by the innovation of Nokia Bell Labs, we’re advancing connectivity to secure a brighter world.

Learn more about life at Nokia .

Our recruitment process

We act inclusively and respect the uniqueness of people. Our 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.

If you’re interested in this role but don’t meet every listed requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences enrich our teams, and you may be just the right candidate for this or another opportunity.

The length of the recruitment process may vary depending on the specific role's requirements. We strive to ensure a smooth and inclusive experience for all candidates. Discover more about the recruitment process at Nokia .

About The Team

Some of our benefits:

  • Flexible and hybrid working schemes
  • A minimum of 90 days of Maternity and Paternity Leave, with the option to return to work within a year following the birth or adoption of a child (based on eligibility)
  • Life insurance to all employees to provide peace of mind and financial security
  • Well-being programs to support your mental and physical health
  • Opportunities to join and receive support from Nokia Employee Resource Groups (NERGs)
  • Employee Growth Solutions to support your personalized career & skills development
  • Diverse pool of Coaches & Mentors to whom you have easy access
  • A learning environment which promotes personal growth and professional development - for your role and beyond

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