Network Architect

Job Title: Enterprise Network & Communications Architect
Salary: $ 150,600 annually
Location: San Antonio, TX (ONSITE)
Contract Duration: Direct Hire (Permanent)

The Enterprise Network and Communications Architect is a combined practical and strategic position that involves establishing technical strategy, defining enterprise architectures, and leading architecture roadmaps for Enterprise Network, Voice, and Communications solutions from a technology perspective. The position provides technical guidance and training to the implementation teams, serves as a technology and best practices evangelist, and ensures that implementations follow the finest of implementation standards and principles. This position advises technical management and business areas on key architectural decisions regarding platforms and supporting technologies. This position produces technical architectures (documented by deliverables) that are scalable, maintainable, dependable, secure, and meet performance requirements. This position represents the Enterprise Information Technology (EIT) organization across CPS Energy and works across the company to deliver technical solutions, including providing continuity on major solution decisions, communicating technology solution value across all levels of the company, and ensuring solutions are implemented according to the defined solution architecture and technical standards.

Tasks & Responsibilities

• Responsible for enterprise communicating / network architectural design and planning of complex interactions of IT systems
• Should have a solid understanding of general IT application structures, the supporting components to the network, and general overall wholistic IT functions, operations, security solutions, and general dataflows of an enterprise network.
• Must be knowledgeable of past, present, and upcoming network technologies, standards, and best practices to properly plan and integrate solutions in the most effective way
• Develop enterprise networking architectural patterns, approaches, and design solutions, research new technologies and approaches
• Create standards and roadmaps, and develop recommendations for migrating to future standards.
• Responsible for the design, architecture, and automation designs of on-premise, wide area, and Cloud networking solutions. Design and architecture of a multi-site, multi-cloud network infrastructure
• Partner with vendors to select appropriate technical solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop consensus, drive results, and execute projects across the organization on time and within budget.
• Manage several simultaneous initiatives from conception through implementation.
• Contribute to standards and design patterns. Deliver solutions tailored to internal business requirements.
• Articulate design rationale, flexibly adapt solutions and iterate designs when required.
• Provide 3rd level support and input as required to teams diagnosing reported issues, providing root cause analysis to management and the business teams.
• Work closely with Senior management, Architecture, Application managers, and IT operations teams.
• Enhances efficiency via automation when and wherever possible. Cross-train other team members on projects, and network technologies.
• Address security requirements across the enterprise through the application of appropriate people, processes, and technology
• Develop architectures and roadmaps for large-scale IP networks with multiple routing domains & service providers.

Minimum Skills

• Strong leadership skills; coaching and mentoring skills. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• High degree of flexibility and ability to work with employees at all levels of the organization with diverse backgrounds.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Recognized as a thought leader.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent leadership and management skills.
• TOGAF Certification or equivalent.

Minimum Education

• Bachelor s degree from an accredited university in technology or a related field

Preferred Qualifications

• Enterprise communications and network architecture experience in a complex, multi-platform distributed environment
• Strong experience with On-Prem / Private, Public Cloud network services.
• CCIE or equivalent technical certification will be beneficial
• Experience in architecting and working with large-scale IP networks with multiple routing domains & service providers, routing protocols including BGP, EIGRP & OSPF.
• Experience architecting and implementing network security & QoS technologies.
• Extensive experience in layered solutions and designs, diverse technical configurations, across multiple technologies and processing environments.
• In-depth understanding of enterprise network architecture, operations, and technology trends, as well as security-minded.
• Strong leadership skills; coaching and mentoring skills. Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
• Strong desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly. Recognized as a thought leader
• Able to develop opportunities, pitch, and deliver projects of Network Transformation, Network Roadmaps, automation, and SD-WAN with SASE, Software-Defined Data Centers, Data Management & Analytics, IoT, Remote Access, WAN Cost Optimizations, etc.