JOB TITLE: Project Manager – Telecom Cloud & 5G
LOCATION: Canada/Mexico (100% Remote)
JOB TYPE: Contract
Job Summary:
- Hands on and detailed oriented Project Manager with telecom background and 5 to 10 ears of experience in customer delivery and SW development projects,
- Overall, we are looking for an individuals with a “PM DNA” who take ownership and responsibility for their projects, work with minimal supervision, and table to represent Nokia in front of the costumer.
- 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 mangers, 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 organization, 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 especially in telecommunications projects may involve and require high level knowledge of packet core VNF concept 5G cloud migration and AWS integration and deployment as well as knowledge of IMS/SDL concepts and architecture and strong preference on 5G and cloud deployments
- special focus might include messaging services including MMSC SMS GW and MSC 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
- we are looking for PMS who could take leadership after the onboarding period and grow in the role technically and with soft skills PMI PMP certification is a plus previous Nokia experience in either project management or technical roles is a plus (construction RF, Pure RAN, non-telecom IT such as health or financial industry applications experienced PMs might not be a good fit for this position
- Engineers or technical managers who want to remain very technical will not be good fit for this position this is a management leadership position balancing technical requirements, team logistics commerce schedules, and budgets as well as the customer relationship on behalf of Nokia
- PMS with more than 15 years of experience may not be a good fit for this position
- High level knowledge of Packet Core, VNF concepts, 5G, Cloud migration, and AWS integration and deployment as well as knowledge of IMS/SDL concepts and architecture, and strong preference on 5G and cloud deployments.
2.Special focus might include
- Messaging services including MMSC, SMS-GW and MSA platforms. Requirements for costumer Projects Managers for CNS & CMS NAM. We are expending the delivery location to include Mexico as an option services shall be delivered remotely from Colombia and Mexico Also, we want to emphasize that strong skills in English are required.
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $30.00 - $35.00 per hour
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Work Location: Remote