Network Architect Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture & Technical Leadership: Define the APAC network strategy, target architecture, standards, and roadmap while driving standardisation, resilience, automation, and technical debt reduction.
• Solution Design & Architecture Assurance: Lead network solution design, architecture reviews, technical approvals, and risk assessments, ensuring security, scalability, resilience, and operational readiness.
• Network & Security Architecture: Oversee enterprise network, cloud connectivity, network security, and application traffic-management architecture across APAC.
• Governance, Risk & Compliance: Establish architecture standards and design principles, ensuring alignment with enterprise policies, security controls, audit requirements, and regional regulations.
• Project Delivery & Implementation: Lead end-to-end network project delivery, managing plans, resources, dependencies, vendors, risks, testing, migration, cutover, and operational handover.
• Commercial & Technology Management: Evaluate technologies and vendors, validate technical and commercial requirements, and drive cost efficiency, standardisation, and reduced vendor dependency.
• Operational Readiness & Continuous Improvement: Ensure implementation readiness, testing, rollback, monitoring, support, and operational acceptance while driving continuous improvement through lessons learned.
• Team & Stakeholder Leadership: Lead and mentor architects and senior engineers, govern design decisions, promote knowledge sharing, and foster collaboration and engineering excellence.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related discipline.
• 10 to 15 years of enterprise networking experience, including substantial architecture, technical design authority, or leadership responsibilities.
• CCIE Certification with proven experience designing large-scale, highly available networks across data centres, campus, branch, WAN/SD-WAN, Internet, cloud, wireless, and security domains.
• Deep knowledge of BGP, OSPF, routing and switching, QoS, multicast, VPN, high availability, segmentation, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, load balancing, and NAC.
• Hands-on architectural experience with Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, F5, Meraki, Zscaler, Cisco ISE, or equivalent technologies.
• Experience integrating networks with cloud, SaaS, identity, security, monitoring, ITSM, and automation platforms.
• Strong capabilities in architecture methodology, requirements analysis, option assessment, technical governance, risk management, and design documentation.
• Working knowledge of automation, APIs, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, observability, and Site Reliability Engineering principles.
• Proven ability to lead technical teams, influence senior stakeholders, resolve technical conflicts, and communicate complex matters clearly.
• Experience in banking, financial services, or other regulated industries preferred; familiarity with MAS TRM and regional regulations is advantageous.

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