Senior Network Architect

We are looking for an experienced Senior Network Architect to provide technical and strategic leadership for a large and complex enterprise network environment.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing, assessing, and modernizing enterprise network infrastructures. This individual will work closely with engineering teams, business stakeholders, leadership, and technology vendors to define network standards, evaluate new technologies, develop modernization strategies, and guide key architectural decisions.

This role requires someone who can balance hands-on technical expertise with strategic thinking and comfortably communicate with both technical teams and executive leadership.

• Design and define scalable, secure, resilient, and high-performing enterprise network architectures.
• Establish and maintain network architecture principles, design standards, configuration guidelines, and best practices.
• Translate business and technical requirements into practical and sustainable network solutions.
• Provide architectural guidance across LAN, WAN, wireless, network security, and cloud-connected networking environments.
• Develop governance and architectural frameworks to ensure consistency across distributed enterprise networks.
• Provide technical direction and oversight to network engineering and implementation teams.

• Evaluate existing network environments to identify technical gaps, risks, performance issues, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop network modernization strategies and long-term technology roadmaps.
• Research and evaluate emerging networking technologies and determine their value to the organization.
• Support large-scale network transformation, migration, and infrastructure modernization initiatives.
• Recommend improvements that enhance network scalability, availability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Lead or contribute to the development and evaluation of RFPs for network technologies and services.
• Assess vendor solutions and proposals from technical, architectural, operational, and business perspectives.
• Compare technologies and provide clear recommendations based on organizational requirements.
• Work closely with technology vendors and suppliers throughout evaluation, selection, and implementation.
• Present technology strategies, recommendations, risks, and architectural considerations to senior and executive leadership.

• Develop and maintain enterprise network standards, technical guidelines, and implementation practices.
• Establish governance processes to ensure network solutions follow architectural standards and best practices.
• Ensure network designs meet requirements related to security, scalability, resiliency, availability, and operational support.
• Review proposed network solutions and provide architectural approval and guidance where required.

• Provide senior-level architectural support for complex and escalated network issues.
• Lead or support root cause analysis for major incidents and recurring network problems.
• Work with engineering and operations teams to identify long-term solutions rather than temporary fixes.
• Improve overall network reliability, performance, resiliency, and operational stability.
• Identify opportunities to improve network operations through automation, analytics, and AI-enabled technologies.
• Support automation of network configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and operational processes.
• Evaluate and recommend tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Cisco Thousand Eyes, and similar automation or analytics platforms.
• Promote the adoption of modern technologies that improve implementation quality and operational efficiency.

The Senior Network Architect should have strong experience across multiple areas of enterprise networking, including:

• Enterprise routing and switching

• MPLS
• WAN redundancy and diversity
• High-availability and resilient network designs

• Manufacturing and industrial wireless deployments

• Zscaler
• Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
• Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA)
• Zscaler Private Access (ZPA)

• Network automation and analytics platforms
• Cloud-connected and cloud-adjacent networking services

Experience with equivalent enterprise networking technologies and platforms will also be considered.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise network engineering and/or network architecture.
• Strong technical knowledge across LAN, WAN, wireless, network security, and cloud-connected networking environments.
• Demonstrated ability to design secure, scalable, highly available, and resilient network solutions.
• Experience developing enterprise network architecture standards, design principles, and technical…