Senior Network Engineer - AVP

Embark on a transformative journey as a Senior Network Engineer - AVP. At Barclays, our vision is clear – to redefine the future of banking and help craft innovative solutions . In this role, you will be responsible for leading the design, build, and run of Barclays’ global network infrastructure platforms and connectivity products across data center, core, campus, branch, and edge environments.

This role provides deep technical leadership across routing, switching, data center and core networks, campus and branch infrastructure, wireless, WAN, and edge technologies, including SD‑WAN, remote access, and supporting network services such as load balancing, DNS, DHCP, IP Address Management (IPAM), and proxy solutions. As part of Barclays’ Networks Modernization journey, you will lead the delivery of modern, resilient network platforms, driving automation, Dev Ops practices, and product centric ways of working to improve scalability, security, and speed of delivery.

You will act as a senior technical authority, influencing design decisions, guiding multi-faceted delivery, and ensuring network platforms meet business, regulatory, and operational requirements.

To be successful as a Senior Network Engineer - AVP, you should have:

• Deep practical project delivery expertise across enterprise grade networks, including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, multicast, QoS, MPLS, private circuits, metro Ethernet, and network segmentation

• Considerable experience designing, implementing, and operating modern datacenter environments, including spine leaf architectures, VXLAN/EVPN, DCI, ACI, and DWDM

• Extensive experience in designing and implementing complex data networks with Cisco, Arista, Fortinet and F5 platforms

• Proven experience designing and operating enterprise Wi Fi solutions, and SDWAN solutions

Other highly valued skills include:

• Good understanding of resiliency and traffic engineering patterns, including redundancy models, segmentation, firewall integration, and traffic management. Ability to assess and improve platform availability

• Practical experience implementing network automation using Cisco NSO, Ansible, and/or Python, with a focus on consistency, scale, and risk reduction

• Experience designing and supporting enterprise connectivity to AWS and/or Azure, including hybrid architectures, routing integration, and secure connectivity patterns

• Leads multi-faceted programs end-to-end, influences design decisions, and provides technical direction to BA4 level engineers while remaining hands‑on as needed

• Acts as a Tier4 escalation point for highly detailed, high impact production incidents. Demonstrates have ownership, decision making, and leadership through resolution. Recognized as a domain or platform subject matter expert

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in this role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen, strategic thinking, digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Whippany, NJ office.

Minimum Salary: $120,000

Maximum Salary: $175,000

The minimum and maximum salary/rate information above includes only base salary or base hourly rate. It does not include any other type of compensation or benefits that may be available.

Barclays employees are eligible for a suite of competitive and generous employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage, 401(k), life insurance, and other paid leave for qualifying circumstances.

This position is eligible for an incentive award.

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.

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