Network Architect

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Network Architect to design and govern secure, scalable, resilient enterprise network architectures across data centers, WAN, cloud, and hybrid environments. The role requires strong architectural decision-making, vendor-neutral technology evaluation, and the ability to lead complex, enterprise-scale programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design enterprise network architectures, reference models, and standards across data center, WAN, cloud, and hybrid environments.
• Make architecture-level decisions, balancing performance, cost, security, resilience, and operational efficiency.
• Evaluate multi-vendor and open-source technologies to select the best-fit solutions.
• Lead end-to-end network architecture for complex, multi-domain and multi-region programmes.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, security, application, and business stakeholders to resolve conflicting requirements and drive decisions.
• Establish network governance, review designs, enforce standards, and guide engineering and delivery teams.
• Design high-availability, disaster recovery, data center interconnect, and secure network access solutions.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong networking fundamentals: BGP (mandatory), OSPF, TCP/IP.
• Data center networking, fabric design, and network security/segmentation.
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN), VMware NSX, VXLAN, and overlay networking.
• Hybrid cloud networking and network automation using Python/APIs.
• Strong Linux and networking integration, including OS-level troubleshooting.
• Exposure to containers and infrastructure tooling.

Experience & Competencies

• Proven experience delivering complex, enterprise-scale network architecture programmes.
• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, multi-region networking, and data center interconnects.
• Financial services or other regulated-industry experience preferred.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to articulate technical trade-offs, challenge assumptions constructively, and drive architectural decisions to closure.

Important: This is an architecture and decision-making role, not a technical project management or vendor-led implementation role. Candidates must demonstrate ownership of end-to-end architecture and the ability to make independent, system-level design decisions.