Senior Lead Architect — AI-Driven Optical Network (Remote)

Lumen; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 132,000 - 194,000; Full time

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Job summary

Lumen seeks a Senior Lead Architect to drive AI-ready connectivity strategies across optical networks. You will translate emerging technologies into deployable architectures, craft roadmaps, and lead cross‑disciplinary initiatives shaping scalable, future‑oriented designs.

The role emphasizes high accountability, collaboration with teams, and delivering tangible impact for customers and partners. Strong background in DWDM, ROI/NPV analyses, and product introductions is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, optical, or Telecommunication engineering, or 5-7+ years of equivalent experience and training.
• Master of Business Administration, or 5-7+ Years of equivalent experience in financial modeling.
• Fluent in DWDM, Coherent Optics, ROADM/Open Line Systems, Optical performance modeling, and network resiliency.
• Strong analytical approach to solving problems.
• Experience communicating technical solutions from C-Level to entry level employees.
• Has been the technical subject matter expert that has successfully led a new Product introduction into the production network.
• Strong data extraction and analytic skills using tools like SQL and Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Optical Strategist: translate emerging technologies into deployable architecture, standards, vendor requirements, and operational models.
• Architectural Recommendations: include technology roadmaps, reference architectures, lifecycle planning, and interoperability requirements.
• Visionary: Envision future optical network over a 1–3-year horizon and turn them into reality.
• Original Mindset: Think, how can we do this?
• AI-Enabled Innovation: Use AI tools to accelerate research, network analytics, documentation, automation, modeling, and decision support.
• Standard Bodies Participation: Engage in standard bodies to drive Lumen’s initiatives.
• Data Mining and Trending Analytics: Utilize data mining to extract network data and present trends.
• Financial Model Derivation: Fluent in TCO, ROI, NPV, sensitivity analysis, marginal cost, long-run average cost, capital efficiency, and demand-based forecasting.
• Business Case Development: Develop business cases to support architectural designs and decisions.
• Automation Vision: Create an automation vision for the Optical Product line.

Skills

DWDM

Coherent optics

ROADM/Open Line Systems

Optical performance modeling

Network resiliency

C-level communication

Data extraction/analytics

SQL

Power BI

Education

Bachelors in electrical/optical/telecom

MBA or equivalent financial modeling experience

Tools

SQL

Power BI

Job description

Lumen seeks a Senior Lead Architect to drive AI-ready connectivity strategies across optical networks. You will translate emerging technologies into deployable architectures, craft roadmaps, and lead cross‑disciplinary initiatives shaping scalable, future‑oriented designs.

The role emphasizes high accountability, collaboration with teams, and delivering tangible impact for customers and partners. Strong background in DWDM, ROI/NPV analyses, and product introductions is essential.