Senior Network & Security Architecture Lead

JazzWorld; Karachi Division; On-site; PKR 3,600,000 - 7,200,000; Full time

Job summary

JazzWorld in Karachi seeks a Lead Architect – Network & Security to serve as the design authority for all network and security work within the SI team. It leads engineers delivering multi-vendor projects across enterprise and financial services sectors.

The role owns reference architectures, design standards, and high/low-level designs, ensuring security, compliance and quality before live deployment. Extensive leadership and Pakistan market experience are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 12+ years in enterprise network and network-security engineering, hands-on, including at least three years leading a technical team.
• Track record delivering complex multi-vendor network and security programmes for enterprise/financial services customers.
• Migrations and technology refreshes executed in live production with structured fallback planning.
• Pre-sales exposure: solution validation, effort estimation, BOM review, and customer-facing design defense.
• Experience mentoring and raising the standard of a team's work.

Responsibilities

• Own reference architectures, design standards and technical patterns, ensuring they stay current with OEM roadmaps.
• Produce and review High-Level and Low-Level Designs, MOPs and migration plans.
• Sign off every network and security design before implementation.
• Lead complex end-to-end deployments: data centre fabrics, WAN/SD-WAN, firewall migrations, NAC, secure edge services.

Skills

Leadership & team mgmt

Stakeholder communication

Solution design & architecture

Multi-vendor delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE

Tools

Cisco ACI

Cisco SD-WAN

Fortinet/Fortigate

Palo Alto

Huawei USG/Nexus

Job description

JazzWorld in Karachi seeks a Lead Architect – Network & Security to serve as the design authority for all network and security work within the SI team. It leads engineers delivering multi-vendor projects across enterprise and financial services sectors.

The role owns reference architectures, design standards, and high/low-level designs, ensuring security, compliance and quality before live deployment. Extensive leadership and Pakistan market experience are essential.