Senior Network Architect & Enterprise Design Lead

Visa; West Kirby; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Visa is seeking a Staff Network Engineer to shape the technical direction of the corporate WAN, LAN, wireless, and secure-connectivity platforms. You will provide architecture guidance, governance, and implementation oversight for enterprise-scale initiatives.

As a senior contributor, you will mentor teams, drive design reviews, and collaborate with Architecture, Security, and Operations to improve reliability, security, and observability across global networks.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical direction for enterprise WAN, LAN, wireless, remote-access, and secure-connectivity solutions.
• Lead the design and technical delivery of the organization's most complex, high-risk, or enterprise-scale network initiatives from requirements and architecture through implementation and operational acceptance.
• Influence and develop network architecture principles, reference patterns, design standards, and reusable engineering practices in partnership with Architecture, Security, Operations, and other technology teams.
• Produce and govern high-level and low-level network designs, technical decision records, implementation strategies, resiliency requirements, and supportability criteria.
• Lead technical-design reviews and ensure solutions address reliability, scalability, capacity, security, observability, automation, and lifecycle requirements.
• Assess network performance, capacity, resiliency, and technical debt and provide strategic recommendations.
• Evaluate emerging network technologies and determine their potential applicability, benefits, risks, dependencies, and operational impact.
• Provide technical oversight for design validation, testing, implementation readiness, rollback planning, and operational handoff.
• Serve as a senior engineering escalation point for highly complex, cross-domain incidents.
• Lead root-cause analysis for significant network events and ensure corrective actions address systemic gaps.
• Provide technical direction during major incidents and coordinate engineering analysis across internal teams, vendors, and service providers.
• Establish expectations for network observability, operational readiness, troubleshooting procedures, resiliency testing, and support documentation.
• Analyze incident, problem, performance, and capacity trends to identify systemic risks and prioritize engineering improvements.
• Provide senior technical guidance to ensure security and compliance requirements are incorporated into network architectures, standards, and major initiatives.
• Lead technical analysis and remediation planning for significant network vulnerabilities, security events, and control gaps.
• Evaluate proposed designs for security, resiliency, operational risk, and control effectiveness and recommend improvements.
• Promote secure-by-design practices throughout the network-engineering lifecycle.
• Provide senior technical direction to vendors and service providers and evaluate proposed products, designs, implementation approaches, and corrective actions.
• Provide technical leadership across Project Management, Account Management, Security, Network Operations, Enterprise Architecture, application teams, vendors, and service providers.
• Communicate complex risks, decisions, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Define and advance technical practices

Job description

Visa is seeking a Staff Network Engineer to shape the technical direction of the corporate WAN, LAN, wireless, and secure-connectivity platforms. You will provide architecture guidance, governance, and implementation oversight for enterprise-scale initiatives.

As a senior contributor, you will mentor teams, drive design reviews, and collaborate with Architecture, Security, and Operations to improve reliability, security, and observability across global networks.