Lead DV Network Architect - Enterprise, Security-Cleared

LA International; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

LA International in London is seeking a seasoned Senior Network Engineer to lead a team delivering high-quality network designs and engineering solutions onsite in London. You will act as the technical authority for network engineering, ensuring designs meet enterprise standards, security requirements, and long-term technology strategy.

This hands-on leadership role requires balancing technical design capability with operational excellence, stakeholder engagement and people development.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing complex enterprise network solutions.
• Ability to translate business requirements into network designs.
• Experience producing HLDs and LLDs and design governance.
• Understanding of security controls and enterprise standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of network solutions.
• Produce and review high-level and low-level network designs.
• Define architectures meeting availability, scalability, security and supportability.
• Ensure designs align with enterprise standards and design patterns.
• Drive network lifecycle planning including technology refresh, capacity growth and platform evolution.
• Perform technical assurance and design governance activities.Review solution designs produced by engineers, suppliers and third-party partners.
• Ensure operational support requirements are incorporated into solution designs from inception.
• Collaborate with solution architects and security architects to create integrated end-to-end solutions.
• Balance technical, commercial and operational considerations when making design decisions.
• Lead technical investigations, proof of concepts and technology evaluations.
• Establish network design principles, standards, blueprints and reference architectures.

Skills

Network design leadership

Stakeholder engagement

People development

Technical leadership

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Palo Alto

Cisco Secure Firewall

Job description

LA International in London is seeking a seasoned Senior Network Engineer to lead a team delivering high-quality network designs and engineering solutions onsite in London. You will act as the technical authority for network engineering, ensuring designs meet enterprise standards, security requirements, and long-term technology strategy.

This hands-on leadership role requires balancing technical design capability with operational excellence, stakeholder engagement and people development.