Principal System Architect
Nokia
Cloud
Solutions Architect
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full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • New York
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💰 $150,000 - $175,000 per year
Job Level
SeniorLead
About the role
- Lead the technical solutioning and author technical volumes of RFI/RFP responses, white papers, and customer-facing deliverables
- Translate complex technical concepts into compelling, customer-aligned solutions
- Collaborate with Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and Product to shape win themes, technical discriminators, and architecture narratives
- Lead technical planning and execution of emerging product demos, live flight events, and customer trials
- Serve as a front-line technical expert during DoD, federal, and enterprise customer engagements
- Coordinate cross-functional resources to ensure operational readiness for demonstrations
- Provide technical support to business development from early shaping to final proposal submission
- Participate in customer discovery and requirements definition efforts
- Bridge Products, Engineering, and Sales to ensure solution integrity and alignment with roadmap
- Independently own technical solutioning workstreams to reduce dependency on core engineering teams
- Serve as technical lead for product demonstrations and live flight events with ~25-30% travel
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, or a related technical discipline
- Minimum 10+ years of experience with at least 5 years in RF sensing, ground-based radar, C-UAS, ISR, or related technology domains
- Proven success in technical proposal writing and solution architecture
- Strong leadership and project coordination skills
- Experience with in-field testing, validation, and demonstration of technical articles
- Excellent verbal communication with comfort and capability of interfacing with senior government customers
- Eligible for a U.S. security clearance (or current clearance preferred)
- Ability to travel 25-30% domestic and international
- Must be a U.S. citizen
