Sr. Enterprise Architect - Network

Description

• Innovation - Responsible for researching, analyzing, designing, proposing, and delivering solutions that are appropriate for the business and technologies strategies. Tracks industry trends and maintains knowledge of new technologies to better serve the enterprise’s architecture needs.
• Interact with business leaders, IT leaders, vendors and industry experts to translate business requirements, understand options to capabilities, and create architecture blueprints and high-level solution designs for the most complex architectural components of a program.
• Provides senior level expertise on overall direction, guidance, definition, decisions, and priorities regarding the enterprise’s overall architecture to effectively support the organization business strategy.
• Operations – Facilitates the establishment and implementation of standards and reference material that guides the design of technology solutions. Lead architectural collaboration and governing processes including Architecture Review Boards, Solution Architecture reviews, exception management, and related processes.
• Strategy – Interfaces across several business areas, acting as a visionary to proactively assist in defining direction for future projects. Help business leaders and their teams think through the technology, business and operational implications of their technology investment decisions.
• Execution – Reviews, advises, and designs standard software and hardware builds, system options, risks, costs versus benefits, and impact on the enterprise business process and goals. Be the architecture thought leader and trusted go-to partner for Product and Engineering leadership across the organization, recommending innovative solutions to improve live and new system architectures.

Requirements

• Technology skills across multiple IT domains (e.g. application, data, infrastructure, security)
• 7-9 years of relevant enterprise-wide architecture, including but not limited to the Network domain technologies listed: Cisco, Meraki, Arista, F5, Microsoft Solutions, Palo Alto
• Leadership competencies in: - Organizing and Setting Priorities - Managing and Measuring Work - Peer Relationships - Continuous Improvement - Motivating Others - Self-motivated; capable of managing multiple tasks
• Experience in directing and mentoring other architects in the team and across the organization.
• Experience in application development, systems management, and/or project management is a plus
• Right to Work Poster (English and Spanish) If you have the right to work, don't let anyone take it away
• Strong consultative skills at a cross-functional level
• Experience with on-premise solutions and cloud platforms on Azure, AWS.
• Strong skills in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and LeanIX
• Bachelor's Degree in related field or equivalent work experience
• Deep understanding of various aspects of Technology capabilities listed: Network Automation and Monitoring, Advanced Route/Switch Technologies (BFD, BGP, etc.), Cisco ACI, Cisco ISE, SD-WAN, Wireless, Loader Balancers, Firewalls, Secure Network Architectures, Spine/Leaf topologies, Cloud Networking, Unified Communications and Session Border Controllers
• Deep understanding of Network Operations Listed: Performance Monitoring and Health Assessments, Device Lifecycles, Patch and Vulnerability Management, Alerting and Logging, DR and Failover Testing, Utilization auditing and trending, etc.
• Knowledge of TOGAF, ITIL, and other architecture / business process frameworks
• Deep knowledge of API-first design patterns
• E-Verify Poster (English and Spanish) E-Verify Participation Poster English and Spanish

Benefits

• The salary offered to a candidate is based on several factors including but not limited to the candidate’s skills, job-related knowledge, and relevant experience, as well as internal pay equity.

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance