Role Description
The Cloud Business Architect is an enterprise strategist who aligns MSN's business goals and offering strategy with cloud computing capabilities, for MSN .
The role bridges the gap between business needs and technical execution by designing high-level cloud adoption roadmaps, optimising operating models for cloud-based delivery, and ensuring that cloud investments drive clear financial and strategic value.
Role Responsibilities
- Acts as enterprise strategist and architect bridging MSN business goals with cloud computing capabilities and cost/benefit models
- Interacts closely with SDAP P latform and I ntegration teams to define and evolve solutions to meet our customer and delivery needs
- Designs high-level cloud adoption and modernization roadmaps for MSN including:
- Landing-zone patterns, connectivity and data residency for network intelligence platforms.
- Migration and coexistence strategies for legacy tools and platforms.
- Standard platform capabilities (data pipelines, AI/ML, automation, observability, security)
- Architectural principles and target architecture for MSN tools and platforms
- Optimizes MSN operating models for cloud-based delivery, ensuring cloud investments drive clear financial and strategic value
- Works with sales and solution teams to incorporate cloud and intelligence architecture into customer proposals and solutions
- Provides guidance on cost optimization, scalability and resilience for MSN deployments
- Collaborate with Business Development Team and AI Innovation to ensure portfolio offerings are aligned with EOE operating model, MSDP capabilities and ANO roadmap.
- Collaborate with Business Development Team to monetize EOE, MSDP and ANO capabilities through development of new Value Packs, while ensuring Value Packs are technically feasible and aligned with platform strategies
- Research activities for future evolution of the systems & tools within the MSDP eco -system
- Coordinates with delivery and regions to ensure the platform roadmap addresses real operational & commercial needs and supports reuse of AI/automation patterns across deals
Role Authority
- Recommend cloud architecture patterns and best practices for MSN deployments
- Request necessary information from platform, delivery and finance teams to perform analyses and develop recommendations
- Raise risks and opportunities related to cloud usage to MSN leadership and relevant governance forums
- Propose platform standards and investment priorities for MSN, for decision in appropriate forums
- Recommend adoption or retirement of specific tools and platforms within the MSN scope
- Recommend acceptance or deferral of proposed deviations from tool / platforms standards
Required, Skills, Experience and Qualifications
- Education - University degree in engineering, business, economics or equivalent.
- Experience - Typically 10+ years in managed services, portfolio management, product management or commercial management; proven leadership experience.
- Skills - Strong business and financial acumen; deep understanding of managed services operations; portfolio and product management capabilities; stakeholder management and communication skills.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- A good demonstrated working knowledge of the Ericsson Operations Engine
- Industry event experience and public speaking
- Knowledge of the BCSS business development process for Product Management
- Adept at using AI for workplace-based productivity
Behaviors and Competencies
- Strategic thinking and ability to drive change
- Strong collaboration and leadership
- Customer and value focused
- Integrity and resilience
- Innovative and entrepreneurial
- Self-driven, critical thinking, enquiring mind
Working Arrangements
Office-based for a minimum of 60% of the working week. Travel is expected in the range of 25% on average, but can rise to around 50% based upon business need. If not based in the UK, a minimum of one week in four will be based in the UK.
Why join Ericsson?At Ericsson, you'll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what's possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world's toughest problems. You'll be challenged, but you won't be alone. You'll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.
What happens once you apply? Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.
Primary country and city: United Kingdom (GB) || Reading
Req ID: 790644
Skills Required
- University degree in engineering, business, economics, or equivalent
- Typically 10 or more years of experience in managed services, portfolio management, product management, or commercial management
- Proven leadership experience
- Strong business and financial acumen
- Deep understanding of managed services operations
- Portfolio and product management capabilities
- Stakeholder management and communication skills
- Working knowledge of the Ericsson Operations Engine
- Industry event experience and public speaking
- Knowledge of the BCSS business development process for Product Management
- Ability to use AI for workplace productivity
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Ericsson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad and reliable, with multiple medical plan choices, dental/vision, and mental-health/EAP resources. Available descriptions highlight healthcare and disability insurance as consistent strengths.
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Retirement Support — U.S. materials point to an automatic company 401(k) contribution plus matching that can add up to a notably high employer contribution, and some regions also offer pension options. This structure is often cited as a meaningful component of total rewards.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off programs are characterized as generous, with sizable vacation allowances, paid holidays, sick time, volunteer time, and strong parental leave in some locations. PTO is frequently highlighted as a standout element of the package.
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What We Do
Ericsson builds the digital connectivity the world relies on. Our technology underpins the mobile networks, platforms, and systems that billions of people, businesses, and societies depend on every day. We are a global leader in communications technology, delivering mobile network infrastructure, cloud software, and wireless connectivity solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide. Our networks support connectivity across 180+ countries, helping power everyday communication as well as critical digital services at global scale. Connectivity has evolved far beyond consumer mobile use. Today, nearly 80% of the world’s population accesses the internet via mobile networks, and Ericsson is helping shape what comes next. We are advancing 5G and 5G Advanced, developing network APIs that open connectivity to the global developer ecosystem, and applying automation and AI to make networks more intelligent, efficient, and resilient. Ericsson was the first company to launch live 5G networks on five continents, and our 5G platform is now commercially live in 150+ networks across 60+ countries. We also support more than 36,000 enterprise customers, enabling secure, high-performance connectivity for industries such as manufacturing, aviation, logistics, utilities, and public safety, where reliability and performance are mission critical. Innovation is central to how we work. Ericsson has approximately 28,000 employees in research and development, backed by one of the strongest intellectual property portfolios in the industry with 60,000+ granted patents. Our engineers, researchers, and technologists work across 100+ global R&D sites, helping define how networks evolve and how digital infrastructure is built for the long term. As the world moves toward a mobile-first, AI-powered, and cloud-driven future, connectivity becomes the foundation for digital transformation across every industry. Ericsson is building that foundation, shaping the future of digital connectivity through technology that operates at global scale and supports real-world impact, today and for what comes next.
Why Work With Us
Ericsson is a place for people who want to work on technology that powers everyday life. You’ll contribute to large-scale systems used every day, tackle complex challenges in live environments, and keep developing your skills and career in your own vision.
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