Senior Solutions Architect

Lead Solution Manager with Open RAN / RAN Network experience

Location: Düsseldorf, Germany

Working Model: Hybrid

Start Date: Target start from 1st August

Salary & Benefits: Highly competitive salary with a market-leading employee benefits scheme

Languages: English essential, German advantageous

Opportunity Overview

We are supporting a leading global telecoms technology vendor on a confidential search for an experienced Lead Solution Manager to support a major Open RAN programme with one of Germany’s leading mobile network operators.

This is a senior customer-facing role focused mainly on pre-sales, solution management and technical customer engagement . The successful candidate will play an important role in explaining the vendor’s RAN/Open RAN solution, supporting customer discussions, and identifying opportunities to optimise and improve the overall RAN solution where appropriate.

The position offers excellent visibility with senior stakeholders, including C-level customer contacts , and will act as a key link between the customer, the local project team and the vendor’s international R&D function at head office.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the main solution management and technical point of contact for the customer.
• Support pre-sales activity, technical presentations, workshops and solution discussions.
• Explain RAN and Open RAN solution capabilities to customer stakeholders.
• Work closely with R&D teams at head office to align customer needs with product and solution capability.
• Identify areas to optimise, enhance and improve the RAN solution.
• Maintain strong relationships with senior customer stakeholders and C-level contacts.
• Coordinate communication between local teams, customer stakeholders and international technical teams.
• Represent the business professionally in strategic, commercial and technical discussions.

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will have a strong technical understanding of RAN networks and experience working in a senior customer-facing technical, solution management, pre-sales or solution architecture role.

Candidates should have experience with major RAN vendors such as Nokia, Huawei or Ericsson . Experience in Open RAN environments would be highly advantageous, particularly with companies such as Mavenir, Rakuten Symphony or similar Open RAN vendors .

Required Experience

• Strong technical knowledge of RAN networks.
• Experience in solution management, pre-sales, technical sales, solution architecture or a similar role.
• Background working with RAN solutions from Nokia, Huawei, Ericsson or similar vendors.
• Ability to explain complex technical topics clearly to customers.
• Experience managing senior stakeholders and customer relationships.
• Comfortable working with international R&D, product or engineering teams.
• Fluent English.
• EU passport holder.
• Based near Düsseldorf or willing to relocate.

Advantageous Experience

• Open RAN project experience.
• Experience with Mavenir, Rakuten Symphony or similar Open RAN vendors.
• German language skills.
• Experience supporting major mobile operators.
• Previous experience in a fast-moving, start-up style or international vendor environment.