Enterprise Architect - Network Infrastructure

Job Description Certifications Certifications  aren’t mandatory but the level is crucial, The below are examples that would be beneficial:

CCIE (Enterprise Infrastructure, Service Provider, or Data Center)
-required, or clearly demonstrated equivalent expert-level skill.

JNCIE or equivalent Juniper expert-level certification
-accepted as an alternative to CCIE where routing/switching depth is proven.

CCDE
-strongly preferred as evidence of design-level (not just operational) expertise.

Arista ACE, PCNSE (Palo Alto), or hyperscaler networking specialty certifications (AWS Advanced Networking, Azure Network Engineer)
Adjacent Technical Skills (Beneficial, Not Required)
Depth in the specialist area above is mandatory. Experience in the following adjacent domains is a strong plus and will be valued in candidate evaluation, since it enables broader solution ownership across engagements.

Cloud networking: native AWS/Azure/GCP networking, transit gateways, and hybrid connectivity (Direct Connect, Express Route).Security architecture, particularly firewalls, zero trust network access, and SASE.Wireless architecture (CWNP-level expertise).Network automation/Dev Net-style software engineering.

Data center compute and virtualization exposure (VMware, Open Stack, Open Shift), given how tightly fabric design is now coupled to compute platforms.

AI networking (Infini Band/RoCE fabrics for GPU clusters), an increasingly relevant adjacent specialism.

Leadership & Delivery Expectations Leads technical delivery independently and is the de facto final word on routing/switching design decisions within an engagement.

Comfortable being the deepest technical voice in the room, including with client-side CCIE-level engineers.

Mentors other network engineers and architects, raising technical depth across the practice.

Communicates complex routing/switching trade-offs clearly to both technical teams and infrastructure leadership.

Remains calm and decisive during live cutover windows and critical incident escalations.

Job Requirements Enterprise Architect
-Network (Routing & Switching)
Expert-Level Routing, Switching & Data Center Fabric Architecture Practice Area Enterprise Architecture - Network Infrastructure Reports ToManager, ES&ALevel

Enterprise Architect Location Remote  / Client site as required

Travel

Up to 30% dependent on engagement portfolio

Role Summary World Wide Technology is hiring an Enterprise Architect who is a genuine, expert-level authority on routing and switching
-someone who can design, defend, and personally troubleshoot the most demanding campus, data center, and wide-area network architectures our clients run. This role is CCIE-calibre depth.

This is a technical leadership role: the successful candidate will own the technical delivery of network architecture engagements from design through cutover, act as the final escalation point for complex routing and switching problems, and be the standard the rest of the network practice is measured against.

While routing and switching mastery is non-negotiable, WWT engagements increasingly span adjacent domains - security, AI, cloud networking, automation - and experience in these areas is a genuine advantage for career growth within the practice.

Key Responsibilities Own end-to-end technical delivery of network architecture engagements: design authority, low-level design production, implementation oversight, and cutover/migration leadership.

Host and chair Architecture Review Board (ARB) and Technical Design Authority (TDA) sessions for network engagements, owning governance gates, decision records, and design sign-off.

Architect enterprise-grade routing solutions spanning BGP (iBGP/eBGP, route reflection, complex policy), OSPF, IS-IS, and EIGRP for campus, data center, and WAN environments.

Design and validate switching architectures: VLANs, STP/RSTP/MST, VXLAN/EVPN fabrics, VPC/MLAG, and SDN-based data center fabrics (Cisco ACI, Arista Cloud Vision, Juniper Apstra).Lead spine-leaf data center fabric design, including underlay/overlay architecture, multi-tenancy, and fabric automation.

Architect WAN and SD-WAN solutions (Cisco Viptela/Meraki, VMware Velo Cloud, Silver…