Distinguished Engineer - Systems Architecture
About The Position
As a Distinguished Engineer in Network & Technology IT, you will serve as the domain expert in Network Service Assurance, driving autonomous, intent-driven network operations for global management teams. The role focuses on building AI-driven agentic workflows, integrating wireless and wireline surveillance, correlation, and ticketing systems, and incorporating third-party tools. You will lead end-to-end program delivery across network engineering and provisioning, provide thought leadership in ideation and requirements sessions, and guide design and development for alarm and event processing, correlation, and automation. You will lead DevSecOps and technology modernization, including refactoring legacy workflow, correlation, and automation systems to modern, cloud-native Standard Operating Environment (SOE) standards. In collaboration with Centralized and Enterprise Architecture teams, you will align solutions, domain boundaries, and architectural principles. You will partner with development teams in Planning, Engineering, Inventory, and Workflow/Orchestration to align high-level designs and API definitions and support timely cross-functional delivery. The role also encompasses end-to-end architecture across core modules for wireline and wireless initiatives; workflow modernization into scalable, event-driven microservices; defining API and resiliency standards; leading development execution and code quality; facilitating executive and cross-functional decision-making; organizational change management; architecture governance; mentoring architects and development leads; and providing technical guidance for mission- and business-critical Network Systems applications across provisioning and service qualification. You will align teams and vendors on technical direction, participate in agile planning and solution definition, lead process optimization and technology adoption programs, deliver full-lifecycle solution architecture, standardize reusable frameworks and schemas, and advance software engineering practices and AI technologies across the product architecture ecosystem.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
- Eight or more years of relevant experience, demonstrated through work and/or military experience or specialized training.
- Experience architecting scalable network fault management solutions for alarm processing, correlation, ticketing, and automated workflows across legacy and cutting-edge systems.
- Proven success modernizing legacy core network automations and high-volume workflow engines into event-driven architectures without disrupting operations.
- Experience in Core Network domain architecture and software engineering, specializing in high-volume process flow modeling and end-to-end product design for complex business environments.
Nice To Haves
- Master’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- Experience conducting technical workshops to define inter-system communications.
- Experience leading a team.
- Skill translating Core Network business requirements into technical design documents.
- Experience designing and building complex, enterprise-grade Java-based architectural solutions.
- Experience providing solutions or architecture for modernization and migration projects.
- Experience developing and optimizing server architectures.
- Experience with Java/J2EE technologies and Spring Boot microservices.
- Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases such as Oracle and PostgreSQL.
- Knowledge of cloud technologies such as AWS, Docker containers, or Kubernetes (K8S).
- Experience presenting to executives with IT and non-IT backgrounds.
- Experience using AI tools such as Claude Code and CoPilot.
- Experience with enterprise orchestration, BPM engines, and multi-system task management.
- Experience with legacy-to-modern migrations using the Strangler Fig pattern, domain-driven design, and workflow engines such as Camunda or Temporal.
- Experience working in a large cross-functional team structure.
- Experience working in the telecom industry.
- Experience working with vendors and in vendor management.
Responsibilities
- Architect end-to-end functionality across core modules (UFM, UWA, SA360/UTP) for wireline and wireless initiatives.
- Modernize legacy alarm processing, ticketing, and jBPM workflows into scalable, event-driven microservices architectures.
- Define blueprint patterns and standards for API-driven workflows with high resiliency, observability, and self-healing.
- Lead development teams to ensure code quality, data integrity, traceability, performance, and resiliency in workflow execution.
- Partner with Director- and VP-level leadership to drive decisions, facilitate working sessions, and align cross-functional technical teams.
- Act as a change agent using stakeholder analysis and structured change management techniques.
- Create architectural enablers and conduct design reviews to align systems with Directional Architecture, SOE, and domain boundaries.
- Mentor architects and development leads in the Service Assurance space.
- Provide technical guidance to cross-functional teams on solutions and system and process impacts.
- Support mission- and business-critical Network Systems applications across provisioning and service qualification domains.
- Align teams and partner with vendors and internal teams to validate assumptions, evaluate options, and build the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
- Participate in Development Cycle planning, system and solution demos, Inspect & Adapt events, and high-level solution trade-off discussions.
- Create, lead, and execute programs focused on process optimization and technology adoption to maximize business value.
- Deliver end-to-end solution architecture from definition through go-live across logical, technical, and physical views for new and existing problem spaces.
- Define reusable components, common schemas, standards, and tools for the Service Qualification team.
- Drive adoption of software engineering best practices and modern technologies, including AI, LLM, and ARG, across the broader product architecture ecosystem.
- Lead design and development for alarm/event processing, correlation, and automation.
- Lead DevSecOps and modernization of legacy systems to cloud-native SOE standards.
- Align solutions, domain boundaries, high-level architecture, HLDs, and API definitions with architecture and development teams.
- Build AI-driven agentic workflows and integrate wireless and wireline surveillance, correlation, ticketing systems, and third-party tools.
- Lead end-to-end program delivery across network engineering and provisioning using legacy and modern solutions.
- Provide thought leadership in ideation and requirements sessions.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Basic and supplemental life insurance
- AD&D insurance
- Identity theft protection
- Pet insurance
- Group home and auto insurance
- Matched 401(k) savings plan
- Up to 8 company-paid holidays per year
- Up to 6 personal days per year
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Tuition assistance
- Potential premium pay, including overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, and allowances
- Up to 15 days of vacation per year for newly hired employees, with increased vacation based on service
- Incentives and other components of the total rewards package
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
