Senior Data Architect

**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.

**The team you'll be part of**

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.

AI as a Service mission statement: Develop and nurture **innovative**, efficient, fully digitalized, and **high-quality use cases **by becoming a use case driven **powerhouse**. This team will leverage product capabilities developed by the product engineering team. Nurture and boost excellence in **Data Science** and **Data Engineering disciplines** that will be considered **state of the art **of competences applied to Telco Networks Domain. This organization is designed to be a critical step to future mode of operations where many of our offerings will be use case driven. It includes the domains covering Centralized **Operations**, **Infrastructure**, **Network** and **Customer** centric use cases.

We are looking for a motivated Data Architect to join the Nokia Business Applications AI as a Service team, in Portugal.

**What you will learn and contribute to**

A Data Architect must be responsible for the:

- Design, architecture, and development of scalable data models
- Testing and maintenance of systems and processes to collect, transform, store, and enable analysis of structured and unstructured data, considering all the aspects related to privacy, security, reliability, and scalability
- Curation of data, ensuring data quality and integrity
- Creation and maintenance of a data dictionary of all key sources and tables
- Documentation of key stakeholders and dependencies as well as the gathering, clarification, and translation of business and data requirements into documentations and conceptual designs from which technical solutions are developed
- Advisory of clients on appropriate data governance capabilities

As part of our team, you will:
Understanding the Telco domain software products and service components along with their impact on our customers and market.
- Performing research, implementation and testing on new product features, technology, and solution concepts
- Developing fully automated solutions (including CI/CD) for platform deployment of complex distributed systems
- Evaluating new technologies and products in real customer scenarios
- Developing new solutions and redesign existing solutions
- Analyzing internal and external business challenges to recommend best practices to improve products, processes, and services
- Implementing strategic decisions within professional area
- Solving complex problems based on sophisticated analytical thought and complex judgment
- Retaining technical and design knowledge for assigned products and technologies
- Participating in process and tools evolution and its improvements

**Your skills and experience**

You have:

- Technology, engineering or related University Degree or student (MSc or BSc)
- Deep technical knowledge and expertise in one or more of the following areas: applied data analysis, deep / machine learning, security, cloud computing, decentralized systems
- Knowledge and experience in software development, architecture, design and related processes and tools
- Agile and continuous delivery methodologies
- Ability to manage ambiguity
- Self-driven and creative
- Fluent spoken and written English
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Challenge seeking and analytical

Specific Qualifications:

- Good knowledge of IT concepts associated with the deployment of modern distributed systems:

- Big Data and distributed processing (Hadoop, Kafka, Spark)
- Microservices architecture (Kubernetes)
- Cloud native software concepts (BigQuery, Airflow, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, or equivalents)
- Knowledge of IT concepts associated with software development tools:

- Git and CI/CD pipelines
- Software analysis and design methodologies
- Software quality and security enforcement

It would be nice if you also had:

- Certified SAFe Practitioner
- Certification on one or more public clouds: GCP, AWS, Azure
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) concepts, especially Machine Learning
- AI tooling: Vertex AI, Jupyter Notebook, ScyPy, TensorFlow
- Programming languages: Python, Java, C++ and Javascript
- Data Mesh principles
- Data Products, Self-serve Platform, Federated Data Governance

**What we offer**
- Nokia offers flexible and hybrid working schemes, continuous le