Network Architect

Candescent is a forward-thinking technology company transforming how financial institutions deliver Intelligent Banking experiences. We unite digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions that power and connect digital banking, account opening, and branch solutions—creating seamless engagement across digital, remote, and in-person channels.

Our Experience-Led, Intelligence-Driven approach combines human-centered design with data, automation, and cloud-based innovation. Built on an API-first architecture, our extensible ecosystem enables institutions to adapt quickly, integrate easily, and unlock new opportunities for growth—turning every customer interaction into a moment of clarity, confidence, and connection.

Candescent is seeking an experienced and innovative Network Architect to lead the design, strategy, and evolution of our enterprise network infrastructure. This role is responsible for developing scalable, secure, and resilient network architectures that support corporate offices, cloud environments, financial institution operations, and emerging business initiatives.

The Network Architect will partner closely with Infrastructure, Security, Cloud Engineering, Application Development, and Operations teams to define technology roadmaps, establish engineering standards, and drive modernization initiatives. This position serves as the highest level of technical authority for enterprise networking and provides guidance for complex projects, strategic investments, and operational excellence.

• Develop and maintain the enterprise network architecture roadmap.
• Design highly available, scalable, and secure LAN, WAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, Cloud and B2B Networking and internet edge solutions.
• Create and maintain high-level and low-level network designs, standards, and reference architectures.
• Evaluate existing environments and recommend improvements aligned with business objectives.
• Establish networking standards and governance for all Candescent locations and hosted environments.

• Design connectivity solutions for Azure, AWS,GCP (Must Have) and hybrid cloud deployments.
• Define architectures for cloud transit networking, DNS, routing, security segmentation, and application delivery.
• Lead cloud networking initiatives on secure multi-cloud connectivity.
• Collaborate with cloud engineering teams on network automation and infrastructure-as-code initiatives.

• Partner with Information Security teams to design secure network solutions.
• Develop architectures supporting Zero Trust, network segmentation, NAC, SASE, ZTNA, and secure remote access.
• Ensure designs meet regulatory and compliance requirements including FFIEC, PCI-DSS, SOX, and corporate security standards.
• Provide technical leadership during security assessments, audits, and risk reviews.

• Provide architectural oversight for major infrastructure projects.
• Lead technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and vendor assessments.
• Develop multi-year network technology roadmaps and lifecycle management strategies.
• Influence infrastructure direction through innovation and industry best practices.
• Present architectural recommendations to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.

• Act as the highest escalation point for complex networking issues.
• Review network performance, capacity, resiliency, and availability metrics.
• Guide disaster recovery and business continuity planning efforts.
• Ensure infrastructure designs align with operational supportability requirements.

• Promote network automation and orchestration strategies.
• Design solutions utilizing APIs, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code platforms.
• Drive adoption of modern operational models and observability platforms.
• Partner with engineering teams to implement automated provisioning and configuration management.

• Mentor Network Engineers and Senior Engineers on architecture and design principles.
• Participate in technical reviews, change advisory boards, and project governance.
• Foster technical excellence across Infrastructure Engineering teams.
• Build strong partnerships with business units, application owners, vendors, and managed service providers.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of enterprise networking experience.
• 5+ years designing…