E2E Core and Cloud Solution Architect

About the opportunity

Customer-facing solution ownership

• Engage customer stakeholders to understand business drivers, network strategy, pain points, and transformation priorities.
• Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews, and solution discussions, communicating choices, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs.
• Act as the senior technical point of contact throughout presales and solution shaping.

End-to-end architecture

• Define Core Network solution concepts, high- and low-level designs, interfaces, deployment models, data flows, and non-functional requirements.
• Evaluate options that balance customer value, technical feasibility, performance, resilience, security, operational simplicity, and cost.
• Collaborate with architects, Product Management, R&D, Delivery, Operations, and partners.

Packet Core and cloud-native design

• Shape solutions across 4G EPC, 5G Core, dual-mode 5G Core, Packet Core, interworking, mobility, policy, subscriber data, signaling, and user-plane functions.
• Design cloud-native solutions using microservices, containers, Kubernetes, CNFs/VNFs, CaaS, automation, orchestration, and lifecycle management.
• Address infrastructure, applications, security, observability, resilience, scaling, upgrades, rollback, and operational readiness.

Commercial proposals

• Work with the Core 3 and sales teams to translate customer needs into technically robust and commercially viable solutions and proposals.
• Develop scope, technical value propositions, differentiators, assumptions, risks, acceptance criteria, and supporting technical documentation.
• Align proposed solutions with Ericsson portfolio capabilities, delivery models, commercial commitments, and customer expectations.

Delivery and lifecycle

• Support transition from presales through design, integration, deployment, acceptance, and operations.
• Manage architectural risks and keep technical decisions aligned with customer requirements.
• Support upgrades, migrations, modernization, capacity growth, and automation while sharing lessons with R&D and portfolio teams.

Required qualifications

• University degree in engineering, information technology, telecommunications, computer science, or equivalent theoretical background gained through experience.
• Significant experience in telecommunications, network architecture, systems integration, or related technical leadership.
• Experience as a Solution Architect or technical lead for complex customer solutions.
• Experience across at least three relevant Core Network domains, including the ability to connect Packet Core and Cloud with adjacent domains.
• Professional fluency in English.

Technical skills

• Strong knowledge of 4G EPC, 5G Core, dual-mode deployments, 3GPP architecture, service-based architecture, network functions, interfaces, and interworking.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native telecom architecture, including microservices, containers, Kubernetes, CNFs/VNFs, CaaS, automation, CI/CD, lifecycle management, and observability.
• Experience with end-to-end architecture, high- and low-level designs, integration models, migration approaches, and operational concepts.

Leadership competencies

• Customer and stakeholder engagement, technical sales, value argumentation, negotiation, and influencing.
• Strategic thinking, critical thinking, structured problem solving, decision-making under uncertainty, and delivery accountability.
• Collaboration across organizational boundaries, coaching, mentoring, clear technical communication, and executive storytelling.

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