Network Architect (Permanent)

Key Responsibilities

• Set the APAC network vision, target architecture, standards, and roadmap, while driving standardisation, resilience, automation, and reduction of technical debt.
• Own network solution design, architecture reviews, technical sign-off, and risk assessment to ensure security, scalability, resilience, and operational readiness.
• Provide oversight of the regional enterprise network, cloud connectivity, network security, and application traffic management.
• Define architecture standards and design principles that align with enterprise policy, security controls, audit expectations, and local regulatory requirements.
• Lead network projects from inception to handover, covering planning, resourcing, dependencies, vendors, risks, testing, migration, and cutover.
• Assess technologies and vendors, validate technical and commercial requirements, and drive cost efficiency, standardisation, and lower vendor dependency.
• Confirm readiness for go-live through testing, rollback planning, monitoring, support arrangements, and operational acceptance, and apply lessons learned to improve continuously.
• Mentor architects and senior engineers, govern design decisions, encourage knowledge sharing, and build a culture of engineering excellence and collaboration.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Telecommunications, or a related field.
• 10–15 years of enterprise networking experience, including significant architecture, design authority, or leadership roles.
• CCIE certified, with a track record of designing large-scale, highly available networks spanning data centre, campus, branch, WAN/SD-WAN, Internet, cloud, wireless, and security.
• Strong expertise in BGP, OSPF, routing and switching, QoS, multicast, VPN, high availability, segmentation, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, load balancing, and NAC.
• Hands-on architecture experience with Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, F5, Meraki, Zscaler, Cisco ISE, or comparable platforms.
• Experience integrating networks with cloud, SaaS, identity, security, monitoring, ITSM, and automation platforms.
• Solid grounding in architecture methodology, requirements analysis, options assessment, technical governance, risk management, and design documentation.
• Working knowledge of automation, APIs, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, observability, and SRE principles.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams, influence senior stakeholders, resolve technical disagreements, and explain complex topics clearly.
• Background in banking, financial services, or other regulated sectors preferred; familiarity with MAS TRM and regional regulations is an advantage.

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