AI-Driven Global Network Planning & Architecture Leader

Digital Realty Trust, L.P.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k match

Paid time off

Job summary

Digital Realty Trust, L.P. is seeking a Director of Network Planning to lead the strategy, planning, and evolution of the global network infrastructure.

You will partner with PMs, engineers, and vendors to define scalable network strategies and drive outcomes across the organization. You will shape long-term network strategy, improve automation, and ensure a reliable, scalable, cost-effective network to support growth worldwide.

Qualifications

• Experience leading network planning, architecture, or infrastructure strategy for large-scale Layer 1–3 environments.
• Experience defining architecture standards, design principles, and implementation models across optical, transport, routing, and data center networking environments.
• Experience leading long-range capacity planning, investment prioritization, and infrastructure roadmap development in telecommunications, hyperscale, data center, or colocation environments.
• Experience leading network capacity deployment strategies, market expansion planning, and infrastructure readiness for new metros, products, or service launches.
• Experience defining and advancing an AI-enabled automation strategy using Python, APIs, data-driven workflows, automation frameworks, and AI tools to streamline planning, accelerate design decisions, improve forecasting, and reduce manual effort across network engineering processes.
• Knowledge of fiber types, transport systems, routing infrastructure, and scalable network architecture principles.
• Experience establishing governance, business processes, and operating models that improve consistency, quality, and execution at scale.
• Experience leading cross-functional programs and aligning engineering, operations, and business stakeholders around strategic network priorities.
• Excellent communication, executive presentation, and decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Digital Realty’s global network planning strategy, including long-range capacity planning, infrastructure prioritization, and investment alignment to support business growth, customer demand, and service objectives.
• Lead network capacity deployment planning to ensure infrastructure is delivered in the right markets, at the right time, and at the right scale to support customer demand, product requirements, and business growth.
• Drive new market planning and infrastructure readiness by partnering across product, sales, finance, and deployment teams to evaluate demand signals, define requirements, and prioritize expansion opportunities.
• Partner closely with product teams to align network planning, architecture, and deployment priorities with product roadmaps, service requirements, and customer experience goals.
• Establish and govern network architecture standards, design principles, and planning frameworks that enable scalable, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure across global metro and data center environments.
• Drive repeatable planning and deployment models by translating architecture strategy into scalable designs, implementation patterns, and technical requirements for global network expansion.
• Own the roadmap for planning automation, data-driven workflows, and process standardization to reduce manual effort, improve quality, and increase speed and consistency across the organization.
• Drive the strategic use of AI tools to automate planning, analysis, and design workflows, improve decision quality, identify optimization opportunities, and scale engineering productivity through more intelligent and repeatable operating models.
• Partner across engineering, operations, infrastructure, and business teams to align network strategy with service requirements, financial targets, operational readiness, and customer commitments.
• Build and evolve governance, business processes, and performance measures for network planning and design, including topology standards, hardware lifecycle strategy, capacity targets, and risk management practices.

Skills

Network planning

Architecture standards

AI automation

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

Tools

Python

APIs

Job description

Digital Realty Trust, L.P. is seeking a Director of Network Planning to lead the strategy, planning, and evolution of the global network infrastructure.

You will partner with PMs, engineers, and vendors to define scalable network strategies and drive outcomes across the organization. You will shape long-term network strategy, improve automation, and ensure a reliable, scalable, cost-effective network to support growth worldwide.