Global Network Engineering Lead

Job Description

• Define and own the global network engineering strategy across WAN, LAN, WiFi, and internet edge domains, enabling consistent, scalable, and high-quality connectivity across the enterprise
• Partner with product owners to develop and execute a multi-year network roadmap, balancing modernization, risk mitigation, capacity growth, and cost optimization
• Drive context-aware network design by adapting global standards to site-specific factors such as RF conditions, user density, and local constraints
• Collaborate with Network Operations to translate recurring service instability patterns into engineering-led design improvements that enhance availability and performance
• Establish, publish, and continuously evolve global network standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and configuration baselines
• Lead engineering governance for technology selection, lifecycle management, and design reviews, ensuring compliance, scalability, and operational effectiveness
• Define and enforce engineering KPIs and quality metrics across regions and vendor ecosystems
• Provide strategic technical guidance to network product owners on lifecycle management, risk posture, security architecture, and modernization priorities
• Integrate security-by-design principles into all network architectures in partnership with Information Security, including NAC, segmentation, secure access models, and policy enforcement
• Ensure secure and resilient design patterns for hybrid connectivity models covering office, remote, and cloud environments, and drive remediation of identified security risks
• Identify systemic drivers of network instability and lead structural design improvements, resilience enhancements, and capacity planning initiatives
• Define and enhance network observability strategy, including telemetry standards, actionable dashboards, alerting models, and service health indicators
• Lead initiatives to correlate network telemetry with end-user experience metrics to identify root causes of user impact
• Collaborate with monitoring and platform teams to continuously improve observability tools and instrumentation, ensuring network performance is measured in business-relevant outcomes
• Conduct ongoing industry research to evaluate emerging networking technologies and identify opportunities for innovation aligned with business needs
• Sponsor and lead Proof of Concept and Proof of Value initiatives for new technologies, including advancements in LAN, WiFi, WAN, security, and observability
• Partner with vendors and internal teams to introduce AI, AIOps, and agentic AI capabilities in networking, such as anomaly detection, event correlation, predictive insights, and automated remediation
• Drive adoption of network automation practices, including APIs, orchestration frameworks, and standardized design patterns to improve efficiency, consistency, and change reliability
• Lead strategic vendor engagement by aligning vendor roadmaps with enterprise objectives and influencing product direction where required
• Engage with business and technology stakeholders to translate requirements into engineering solutions and evolve global network standards
• Partner closely with product and platform teams to align network design with evolving enterprise needs, including cloud adoption, collaboration platforms, and digital workplace initiatives
• Present clear engineering recommendations, including risks and trade-offs, to senior leadership, acting as a trusted and credible technical advisor
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing global network engineering team, driving accountability, delivery excellence, and strategic alignment
• Strengthen engineering capabilities across architecture, automation, security-by-design, RF expertise, and WAN evolution through structured development and hiring
• Foster a culture of innovation by promoting experimentation, disciplined execution of PoCs, and continuous learning across the engineering organization

• Deep expertise in enterprise networking, including routing and switching (BGP, OSPF) and technologies such as Cisco Nexus, Meraki, Versa SD‑WAN, QoS, DNS/DHCP, and other industry leading wireless &…