Director, Network Architecture and Engineering; Remote

Johnson Controls, a global leader in thermal management, mission-critical building systems, energy efficiency, and decarbonization, helps customers use energy more productively, reduce carbon emissions, and operate with the precision and resilience required in rapidly expanding industries such as data centers, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, advanced manufacturing, and higher education.

For more than 140 years, Johnson Controls has delivered performance where it really matters. Backed by advanced technology, lifecycle services and an industry-leading field organization, we elevate customer performance, turn goals into real-world results and help move society forward.

The Director of Network Architecture & Engineering Services is responsible for defining, governing and advancing the technical direction of the organization’s global network infrastructure. The role provides leadership across network strategy, architecture, engineering project delivery, technology standards, innovation and technical governance, ensuring that network capabilities are secure, resilient, scalable, supportable and aligned with business priorities.

This is a senior leadership role for an individual who can translate strategy into executable engineering plans, lead global technical teams, deliver complex global projects, establish clear technical standards and act as the senior design authority for enterprise networking.

The successful candidate will lead a global network architecture and engineering capability responsible for the design and delivery of enterprise network solutions. The role will set the target-state architecture, maintain global standards and reference designs, govern technical decisions, and direct the engineering delivery of strategic projects from requirements and design through implementation, testing and operational handover.

Working closely with Network Operations, Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Infrastructure, business stakeholders, program teams and strategic service providers, the Director will ensure that network solutions deliver strong business outcomes while meeting security, performance, resilience and supportability requirements.

• Define and maintain the global network strategy, target-state architecture, architectural principles and multi-year roadmap.
• Act as the senior design authority for enterprise networking and provide clear technical direction for major investments and transformation programs.
• Establish reference architectures and approved design patterns across WAN, SD-WAN, LAN, wireless, cloud networking, internet connectivity and related network services.
• Assess business and technology requirements and translate them into secure, scalable and operationally supportable solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry developments, recommending adoption where they provide measurable business, security or operational value.
• Ensure network architecture aligns with enterprise architecture, cyber security strategy and broader technology objectives.

• Own enterprise network technology standards, design principles, reference architectures, engineering patterns and technical policies.
• Establish and maintain global standards for WAN, SD-WAN, LAN, wireless, cloud networking, internet connectivity, network security integration, automation and observability.
• Lead architecture and engineering design reviews, ensuring solutions comply with approved standards and strategic direction.
• Govern technical exceptions and design variances through documented review, risk assessment, approval and mitigation processes.
• Drive consistency across platforms, configurations, deployment methods, testing, documentation and operational handover.
• Partner with Cyber Security and Enterprise Architecture to embed security-by-design and Zero Trust principles into network standards.
• Act as the final technical authority for network architecture standards and engineering best practice.

• Lead and develop a global team of network architects and engineers responsible for solution design, implementation and continual improvement.
• Direct the engineering delivery of strategic network projects, including network transformation, SD-WAN, campus LAN and wireless, cloud connectivity, SASE, data center networking, segmentation, internet and enterprise connectivity initiatives.
• Own the technical delivery…