Senior Manager​/Director Network Engineering & Telecommunications

Job Description As a People Manager, this role directs the enterprise network and telecommunications function and establishes the strategy, architecture, governance, and operating direction necessary to provide secure, resilient, and scalable connectivity across the organization. The role directs the transformation of the bank's network and voice environment as part of the broader technology modernization strategy, establishing multi-year roadmaps, technology standards, investment priorities, and operating capabilities that enable hybrid and cloud adoption while managing enterprise technology, operational, security, and regulatory risk.

Job Description As a People Manager, this role directs the enterprise network and telecommunications function and establishes the strategy, architecture, governance, and operating direction necessary to provide secure, resilient, and scalable connectivity across the organization. The role directs the transformation of the bank's network and voice environment as part of the broader technology modernization strategy, establishing multi-year roadmaps, technology standards, investment priorities, and operating capabilities that enable hybrid and cloud adoption while managing enterprise technology, operational, security, and regulatory risk.

Responsibilities

• Network and Telecommunications Strategy:
  Directs the enterprise strategy and multi-year roadmap for network engineering, telecommunications, unified communications, and enterprise voice capabilities across data center, branch, campus, ATM, and cloud environments. Establishes target-state architecture, technology standards, investment priorities, and operating models that support business strategy, modernization, resilience, security, and scalability.
• Enterprise Network Transformation:
  Directs large-scale modernization of switching, routing, wireless, software-defined networking, automation, and hybrid and cloud connectivity, including transitions between strategic technology platforms. Establishes transformation priorities, governance, sequencing, and success measures and directs teams and strategic partners through complex implementations.
• Network Security and Operational Resilience:
  Directs the strategy and governance for network security and operational resilience in partnership with Information Security and Risk Management. Ensures appropriate controls for firewall governance, network segmentation, secure access, threat detection and prevention, disaster recovery, capacity, failover, and remediation of identified risks.
• Risk, Controls, and Governance:
  Establishes accountability for the control environment supporting enterprise network and telecommunications services and ensures alignment with technology, risk, regulatory, and audit requirements. Directs governance for change control, documentation, configuration standards, regulatory examination support, audit readiness, and corrective actions.
• Financial, Vendor, and Strategic Partnership Management:
  Directs financial, lifecycle, sourcing, carrier, and vendor strategies for the network and telecommunications function and develops business cases and investment recommendations supporting modernization priorities. Builds strategic partnerships across Technology, Cloud Architecture, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Risk Management, and business units and directs vendor, carrier, and integrator performance against enterprise requirements.
• People Management:
  Provides strategic leadership on all aspects of people management while modeling our leadership principles. Cultivates an environment where people are empowered to grow, take initiative, and succeed through clear direction, continuous coaching, and shared celebration.
• Performs other…