Global Network Architect

The Network Architect is a member of a team designing, deploying and supporting IT infrastructure for the Company’s owners, customers, and partners within the organization.

They will work collaboratively with business leaders, vendors, and other technical colleagues to do requirements gathering, analysis, architecting, design, development, and deployment of infrastructure solutions.

They will need to be experienced with all aspects of the day-to-day administration, and activities that take place in an enterprise-class IT infrastructure department.

They will display and keep current knowledge of one or more of the following infrastructure technologies: hardware, software, networking, voice, applications, cloud, and systems engineering.

Serve as a 4th level escalation points for operations issues causing severe impact to business

Your day to day

• Subject matter expert in one or more infrastructure technologies with the ability to create solutions in multiple technical disciplines.
• Strong contributor to roadmap definition, technical architecture and ongoing maintenance thereof.
• Responsible for initiating and leading technical discussions, training other resources and communicating to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to translate technical specifications to business requirements.
• Act as advisor to Sr. level IT management concerning strategic decisions and new technology.
• Serves as an escalation point for operations (Tier 3 or Tier 4 support) for highly complex solution resolution, and responsible for root cause analysis.
• Leads proofs of concept for technology solutions.
• Leads the design of processes and templates for infrastructure implementations.
• Responsible for solution documentation in support of operational readiness, may include training, process development and explanation of standards.
• Responsible for setting standards for hardware, software and configuration management..
• Evaluates the impact of proposed or required changes which may be highly complex in nature (internally and by vendors) especially in the areas of hardware, software, performance, maintenance and cost; provide recommendations to management with an impact assessment.