Technical Architect - Corporate Network & Telecom Services

Technical Architect will be responsible for the Corporate Network & Telecom team for the delivery of global network & telecom services.

Job Description :

- Working with the global network team to deploy network & telecom related solutions, drive high network services uptime and operational excellence.

- Coordination with key customers and stakeholders, site IT management, Corporate IT Management, Corporate IT Applications and Support, Corporate IT Infrastructure & Operations such as Enterprise Data Center Operations, IT Security and Distributed Collaboration Systems.

- The position requires extensive technical architectural experience in a 24x7x365, large scale mission-critical network environment with the ability to understand technical domains such as SD-WAN, Network,DevOps, Edge Networks, circuits, and networking design.

- This leader requires structured and independent thinking as well as the ability to mentor, develop, and inspire staff to achieve goals and pursue excellence

Looking for someone who demonstrates :

- Intense collaboration

- Passionate customer focus

- Thoughtful, fast, disciplined execution

- Tenacious commitment to continuous improvement

- Relentless drive to win

What you will do :

- Aligns and coordinates with business partners on tactical network initiatives related to network operations in the region

- Collects and translates business requirements, makes recommendations, and implement agreed upon solutions

- Coordinates efforts with extended Network Team on future service strategy, design, transition and operations

- Drive root cause analysis of chronic or repeat trouble - reports, and catastrophic outages

- Be responsible for the coordination of deployment of new or upgrade network related services.

- Identifying opportunities to improve data-center architecture and network performance.

- Develop and manage the budget for network implementations, communicating with IT leadership budget and forecast direction and changes.

- Monitor projects on an ongoing basis, evaluating progress, quality, managing issue resolution as necessary, communicate project status to management and other stake-holders

- Manage risks, assessing gaps/opportunities, and implementing action plans to mitigate risks, when applicable

- Promote effective teamwork.

- Recommend implement and enforce policies and procedures to improve the performance, scalability, and security of the network

- Implement appropriate HR strategies and actions to recruit and retain a qualified and motivated workforce.

- Provides 24x7 support availability in the event of any escalations.

Desired :

- More than ten years of experience in managing the network infrastructure & Data Centers in a large, complex, 24x7 mission-critical multi-vendor network environment in a large 24x7 global network environment

- Proven expertise in SD-WAN, SD-LAN, EDGE security networks, Application Delivery Controllers, PKI/MFA, Cloud Integration, Hybrid Networks, and Unified Communication & Collaboration technologies and network management & automation tools

- Extensive experience in Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Load Balancers, SD-WAN: Viptela, Meraki, Cloud, Routing Technologies, Switching Technologies, IP Telephony, Port security, HSRP, WAN Technologies & Security

- Design, architect, planning and Implementing of SD-WAN network and Architecture/Engineering experience of Network design and implementation of post mergers and acquisitions

- Must have certification in CCIE - Routing & Switching or equal-ant certification

- Experience managing outage or event bridges, root cause analysis and problem resolution

- Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written)

- Strong interpersonal skills and leadership capabilities

- Experience in process engineering and design as it relates to Service Life cycle including vendor management

- Detailed understanding of ITILv3 Foundations for Service delivery and DevOps methodologies

- Practical experience with ITIL, Six Sigma, and/or COBIT preferred