Product Architect Packet Portfolio

Company Description

At Zayo Europe, we’re driven by a bold vision to power the world through connectivity. We’ve built and operated the critical fibre networks that keep businesses, communities, and economies connected. In 2024, we embarked on an exciting new chapter as a standalone company - a milestone that empowers us to innovate, grow, and lead with greater agility. As we continue to evolve, our mission remains clear: to deliver fast, reliable, and scalable infrastructure that fuels the digital world.

Zayo Europe is seeking a technically strong and commercially aware Packet Product Architect to help shape, scale and evolve Zayo’s packet product portfolio. This role sits at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Architecture and Operations, ensuring product strategy is translated into scalable, standardised and operationally ready network capabilities. The Product Architect will provide technical leadership across the packet product lifecycle, from roadmap input and architecture design through to release delivery, operational onboarding, technical standards and support for complex customer solutions.

The role requires packet networking expertise, strong commercial awareness and the ability to turn technical capabilities into repeatable, cost-effective and customer-focused product outcomes. Success in this role requires excellent communication, strong cross-functional influence, a hands-on approach to technical delivery, and a clear focus on standardisation, scalability, cost-optimisation and operational readiness.

• Partner with the Commercial Product Manager to provide technical input into the packet product roadmap, shaping priorities based on network capability, product strategy, customer requirements, cost optimisation and operational scalability.
• Deliver roadmap releases, coordinating technical readiness, architecture alignment, release standards, documentation and operational onboarding.
• Drive adoption of new technologies, features and network capabilities that improve product performance, scalability, cost efficiency and customer outcomes.
• Design network architecture to support product expansion, new capabilities, resilience, performance and cost-effective delivery.
• Own the product cost base, working with Product, Finance, Engineering and Operations to understand cost drivers and identify optimisation opportunities.
• Define, document and maintain product standards, technical playbooks, delivery procedures and operational handover materials.
• Engage with Operations and Engineering teams to lead network route planning and standardisation to improve consistency, scalability, performance, resilience and operational efficiency.
• Liaise, onboard and train Operations teams on new technology releases, product enhancements, standards and delivery processes.
• Ensure new products, features and capabilities are operationally ready, supportable and aligned to Zayo’s engineering standards.

• Act as the technical product authority for the Packet portfolio, providing expert guidance on complex or bespoke customer solutions.
• Provide Tier 4 product support to Solution Engineers, Solution Architects and technical delivery teams.
• Work closely with Commercial Product Managers, Engineering, Architecture, Operations to align technical execution with product strategy.
• Use product, network, cost and operational data to identify improvement opportunities and drive continuous optimisation across the Packet portfolio.

• Proven experience in a Product Solutions Architect, Product Architect, Solution Architect, Network Architect or similar role within telecoms, network connectivity or Layer 2 / Layer 3 services.
• Strong understanding of packet networking, IP services, routing, peering, Ethernet, DIA, IP Transit, VPN and underlying network architecture.
• Experience translating customer, product and commercial requirements into scalable, standardised and supportable technical solutions.
• Experience supporting complex or bespoke customer solutions with Solution Engineering, Product, Engineering, Architecture and Operations teams.
• Strong awareness of product cost…