Job Description
The Network Lead Architect is responsible for helping the organization provide secure, available, and high-performing network and telecommunications services across enterprise environments.
As an architect, this role combines domain expertise, disciplined delivery, and effective stakeholder engagement to produce secure, supportable, and measurable outcomes.
The role works across business, delivery, engineering, operations, security, and supplier teams as required.
Key Responsibilities
- Own designs, standards, roadmaps, and technical decisions from concept through operational acceptance.
- Design, configure, monitor, and support network connectivity, routing, switching, security, and related services.
- Diagnose incidents and performance issues using monitoring, telemetry, and structured troubleshooting.
- Plan and execute changes, upgrades, testing, and lifecycle activities with controlled risk.
- Maintain network standards, inventories, diagrams, configurations, and operational documentation.
- Set priorities, clarify accountability, coach contributors, and provide concise updates and recommendations to governance forums.
- Apply organizational security, privacy, risk, compliance, change, and documentation requirements to all assigned work.
- Define or track meaningful measures and use evidence, feedback, and lessons learned to drive continual improvement.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of relevant experience in network and telecommunications or a closely related environment.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the methods, tools, controls, and lifecycle practices relevant to the Network Lead Architect role.
- Experience working in complex enterprise environments with multiple technical teams, service providers, and stakeholders.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.
- Ability to manage priorities, risks, dependencies, and deadlines while maintaining quality and customer focus.
- Proven ability to lead decisions, influence senior stakeholders, and create accountability across organizational boundaries.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting large-scale transformation, transition, modernization, or managed-service environments.
- Knowledge of ITIL, Agile, DevOps, SIAM, and continual-improvement practices as relevant to the role.
- Experience operating in regulated, security-conscious, or contractually governed environments.
- Familiarity with automation, analytics, and modern cloud-enabled service-delivery practices.
Certifications Preferred
- Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, or equivalent role-relevant certification
- Relevant cloud networking certification
- ITIL Foundation
Key Competencies
- Network Lead Architect
- Enterprise networking
- Network security
- Monitoring and troubleshooting
- Change and lifecycle management
- Technical documentation
- Leadership and decision making
- Stakeholder communication
- Risk and issue management
- Continual improvement
Rate:
Not specified
Location:
United States
IR35 Status:
Outside
Remote Status:
Remote
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Senior