Working from business requirements, customer use cases and industry standards (such as ITU-T and IEEE), you will make and document trade-offs among cost, function, capacity and performance for network elements such as ROADMs and optical amplifiers.

NILightpath

Responsibilities
In this role, you will own the requirements and architecture of assigned Layer0 feature areas, and be accountable for their technical success from concept through release. Your key responsibilities will include:
• Shaping product features and requirements with Product Line Management, and recommending solutions to current feature requests based on feasibility, cost and risk

• Owning the system requirements, architecture specifications and acceptance criteria for these feature areas, and guiding development teams through implementation and validation

• Driving the system architecture of these feature areas with fellow architects and development leads, including interfaces and data models

• Architecting and validating the distributed, link-level control loops in these feature areas, such as power control,



gain and tilt equalization and transient suppression

• Defining the system design rules and optical performance models these feature areas rely on, such as target power profiles and OSNR estimation

• Partnering with the product documentation team to describe features and operational concepts for customers

• Leading cross-functional feature teams to build consensus on architecture and technical concepts, and influencing their plans and priorities

• Representing these feature areas in technical engagements and demonstrations with key customers

• Mentoring engineers and architects on the team

Qualifications
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
• Deep understanding of fiber transmission effects, such as power and OSNR evolution and fiber nonlinearities, and their impact on optical line system design

• Hands-on experience with optical networking equipment, including coherent transponders, EDFAs, R

📌 Principal System Architect (India)
🏢 NOKIA
📍 India