Lead Architect
Alcatel Lucent
- Thousand Oaks, CA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- An accomplished Architect with extensive experience in all phases of Network management presales, architecture design, development and deployment.
- Known for effectively managing global teams, project management and leadership for the design and implementation of fully integrated networks.
- Recognized for troubleshooting and strong understanding of access points and appliances, evaluating and improving existing systems with new features and performance improvements with a consistent record of on time, on budget project delivery, resulting in cutting costs, increased product value and revenue streams significantly impacting bottom line results.
- Manage a team of Architects.
- Produce technical architecture, designs for functional networks (WLAN, SD-LAN/WAN, CLOUD) and their management.
- Lead Network management architecture discussions and decisions.
- Work closely with application, server, security, infrastructure and operations teams, effectively communicating and managing customer expectations
- Provide enterprise architecture technical leadership for global initiatives and implementation collaboration with project and operations teams.
- Identify opportunities to innovate, extend and enhance service delivery
- Hands on R&D / POC work for evaluating new technologies
- Serve as escalation point for support and troubleshooting, provides guidance and direction in resolution of escalated application or system problems.
- Create and maintain system documentation for solution design, Domain technologies
- Improve existing processes through solutions to recurring problems and enhancements to existing solutions or documentation.
- Provide strong technical leadership and communications skills including teamwork, facilitation, and coordination to ensure successful creation of roadmaps.
- Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science or related fields.
- Minimum 10+ years of relevant experience in a professional development environment
- Minimum 5+ years of experience as an Architect, building large-scale Enterprise-grade software based on recent technologies.
- Minimum 2 years of supervisory experience.
- Minimum 2 years of experience on AI/ML
- Evidence of effective communication and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics to both technical and non-technical staff
- Working knowledge in multi-vendor infrastructure platforms (i.e., Aruba / HP, Cisco, Meraki, Silver Peak, Zscaler)
- Experience with networking technologies: Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS), Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), high availability (HA), WLAN and resiliency architectures
- Knowledge of Network monitoring tools (i.e., NetScout, Wireshark, Solarwinds, Cisco Call Manager, Wireshark, and Splunk)
- Knowledge of Network Boundary (Next Generation Firewalls (Palo Alto, Fortinet), IPSEC/SSL VPN Concentrators)
- Knowledge of Java, Javascript, NodeJS, AWS/OVH/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes, Kafka, Quarkus, PostgresDB, Time-series databases.
- Expertise in Network Management (NMS/EMS) Domain is a must.
- Familiary with Event Driven Architecture, CQRS, Design Patterns preferred.
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies and Cloud DevOps preferred.
- Evidence of technical certifications preferred (e.g., CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, ACE-A, SEC+)
- Deep understanding of software engineering and established best practices.
- Ability to apply out of the box thinking about creative ways to use Cloud services.
- Ability to work with a limited set of requirements.
- Evidence of desire to mentor colleagues, drive new architectures, and lead team efforts.
- Experience in cybersecurity engineering, network intelligence and operations, and machine learning are highly desired.
- Ability to model empathy, compassion, and emotional intelligence.
- Experience hiring in a values-led organization, emphasizing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging