Network Practice Leader - Architecture and Transformation

Step into a senior leadership role where you will shape the future of network and connectivity architecture through strategic vision, practical transformation roadmaps, and high-impact solution design. As an Industry Principal, you will guide enterprise clients through complex architecture decisions, aligning business outcomes with modern network capabilities while fostering a culture of collaboration, rigor, and continuous improvement. You will work closely with cross-functional stakeholders across delivery, engineering, sales, and client leadership to define scalable architectures, influence technology direction, and elevate practice standards. This role is ideal for a seasoned professional who enjoys combining deep technical expertise with executive communication, structured pre-sales processes, and mentorship—driving measurable value through well-governed architecture and transformation programs.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end architecture and solution design for enterprise network programs spanning campus/LAN, WAN, data center, cloud, and security-edge (SASE) domains. • Produce High-Level Designs (HLD), Low-Level Designs (LLD), reference architectures, and design standards, including topology diagrams, IP/routing schemes, migration plans, and bill of materials. • Lead technology evaluations, PoCs, and OEM/vendor selection, comparing solutions against functional, commercial, operational, and security criteria. • Support pre-sales and solutioning activities — respond to RFPs/RFIs, size and cost solutions, present designs to customers and executives, and defend design decisions in technical reviews. • Define transformation and migration strategies for legacy-to-software-defined transitions (e.g., traditional WAN → SD-WAN/SASE, classic DC → spine-leaf fabric, campus → SD-Access/fabric). • Embed security-by-design — micro-segmentation, Zero Trust, secure edge, and integration with the broader security architecture. • Drive network automation and Infrastructure-as-Code adoption across designs (templating, ZTP, CI/CD for network config). • Establish design governance — architecture review boards, design patterns, guardrails, and documentation standards. • Provide technical leadership and mentoring to network engineers and junior architects; act as design escalation point during delivery. • Partner with cloud, security, applications, and infrastructure teams to ensure the network architecture aligns with the wider enterprise architecture and roadmaps.