Enterprise Architect - Network
San Antonio, TX
Direct Hire
$140 - $150k
ConsultNet is looking for an Enterprise Architect to support Network and Communications onsite in San Antonio, Texas. 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.
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, 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.
Required 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.
Minimum Education
Bachelor's degree from accredited university in technology or related field
Preferred Skills
- 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, 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.
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ConsultNet is looking for an Enterprise Architect to support Network and Communications onsite in San Antonio, Texas. 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.
