Global Network Architecture Lead for Trading & Enterprise

Quberesearchandtechnologies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) seeks an Network Architecture Lead to provide global architectural oversight for trading and enterprise networks. You will collaborate with the global network team to define long-term design direction, ensure scalable standards, and document decisions, telemetry, and operating models.

You will drive alignment with engineering and business stakeholders, review designs for latency and resilience, and propagate best practices across sites to avoid ad-hoc solutions

Qualifications

• Experience designing complex, multi-site network environments.
• Strong knowledge of WAN, data-centre networking, BGP, multicast, VXLAN/EVPN and low-latency design.
• Experience producing architecture plans, standards, reference designs and decision records.
• Strong understanding of instrumentation and operational visibility.
• Knowledge of network equipment supporting business systems and FPGA-connected network paths.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to build agreement across teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain documentation for current-state, target-state and transition plans for global networks.
• Define architecture standards and reference designs in cooperation with network teams.
• Review significant designs for scalability, resilience, latency, simplicity and operational support.
• Document design decisions, dependencies, monitoring requirements and operating models.
• Define instrumentation standards covering telemetry, monitoring, logging, alerting and dashboards.
• Identify and track architectural risks, technical debt and gaps between current and target states.
• Apply lessons from project delivery and incidents to strengthen future designs.
• Build alignment across engineering and business stakeholders with consistent design patterns.

Skills

Multi-site network design

WAN & DC networking

BGP & VXLAN/EVPN

Architecture documentation

Instrumentation & visibility

FPGA-connected network paths

Stakeholder influence

Job description

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) seeks an Network Architecture Lead to provide global architectural oversight for trading and enterprise networks. You will collaborate with the global network team to define long-term design direction, ensure scalable standards, and document decisions, telemetry, and operating models.

You will drive alignment with engineering and business stakeholders, review designs for latency and resilience, and propagate best practices across sites to avoid ad-hoc solutions