Lead Network Architect

SECU•Raleigh, NC

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Lead Network Architect is an enterprise technical leadership role responsible for defining and driving the strategic direction, architecture, and evolution of the organizations network infrastructure. This role serves as the senior technical authority for enterprise networking, ensuring that the network environment is secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned with business objectives. The role partners closely with cybersecurity, cloud/infrastructure, and application teams to establish architectural standards, reference designs, and roadmaps that support modernization, operational efficiency, and high service availability. The role evaluates emerging technologies, guides major network transformation initiatives, and ensures that network capabilities support enterprise growth, regulatory requirements, and evolving cyber security threats. The Lead Network Architect also provides technical leadership and mentorship to network engineers and technicians, acting as a key advisor during complex troubleshooting, solutions design, and major infrastructure initiatives. Through strong collaboration with IT leadership and business stakeholders, the role ensures network strategy enables reliable connectivity, optimal performance, and seamless integration across on-premises, cloud, and partner ecosystems.

Requirements

Bachelors in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
7 years of experience in enterprise network architecture.
Advance network infrastructure knowledge (e.g., TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, routers/switches/wireless, cellular, traffic monitoring solutions, cloud, firewalls, load balancers, proxies, and DNS).
Advanced cybersecurity knowledge and experience with zero trust architectures, segmentation methods, and other security principles.
Experience across a wide range of related technologies such as, end user devices and applications, server virtualization, storage design, containers, Unified Communications, etc.
Strong experience with cloud networking.
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, are essential for both deeply technical discussions and less technical management discussions.
Demonstrated teamwork and leadership abilities.
Ability to influence without direct authority.
Analytical and problem-solving skills.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
7+ years of network architecture, cloud, and security experience.
CCIE/CCDE, CCAr, F5 301/302, AWS/Azure Network Specialty, CISSP, VCP, TOGAF
Disaster Recovery planning and testing.
Experience using automation tools for network efficiency and capacity planning.