Senior Lead Network Architect — AI-Driven Core & Automation

Lumen; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen in Boise, Idaho, is seeking a Senior Lead Network Architect to design resilient, scalable Internet, MPLS core, VPN edge, and Metro Ethernet networks. You will advance network automation, streaming telemetry, closed-loop assurance, and AI-enabled operations to improve service reliability, performance, security, and efficiency.

You will lead architecture decisions, set standards, and provide technical leadership across IP, Optical/Transport, security, and software teams, while guiding

Qualifications

• 10+ years of architecture and engineering experience in large-scale carrier, web-scale, or service-provider networks.
• Deep expertise in IGP, BGP, MPLS, multicast, VPN, and traffic-engineering technologies.
• Strong knowledge of routing and switching platforms, merchant silicon, optics, SERDES, and MPLS forwarding and control-plane mechanisms.
• Hands-on experience with production network automation and telemetry using Python, Ansible, NETCONF/YANG, RESTCONF, gNMI, gRPC, APIs.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and evolution of resilient, scalable Internet, MPLS core, VPN edge, and Metro Ethernet networks.
• Develop architecture standards and roadmaps for routing, switching, MPLS, multicast, carrier Ethernet, merchant-silicon platforms, optics, and high-speed interfaces.
• Design and govern network automation using model-driven interfaces, open APIs, infrastructure as code, reusable service models, automated testing.
• Design and develop streaming telemetry and observability solutions for network health, performance, capacity, service-level assurance, and compliance.
• Design and develop event-driven and closed-loop workflows for provisioning, validation, anomaly response, and remediation.
• Evaluate and apply AI-enabled capabilities for anomaly detection, predictive analytics, capacity forecasting, incident correlation, root-cause analysis, and guided operations.
• Lead proof-of-concepts, technical and economic evaluations, platform selection, and cross-functional architecture decisions.
• Provide technical leadership across IP, Optical/Transport, operations, security, data, and software engineering teams.

Job description

Lumen in Boise, Idaho, is seeking a Senior Lead Network Architect to design resilient, scalable Internet, MPLS core, VPN edge, and Metro Ethernet networks. You will advance network automation, streaming telemetry, closed-loop assurance, and AI-enabled operations to improve service reliability, performance, security, and efficiency.

You will lead architecture decisions, set standards, and provide technical leadership across IP, Optical/Transport, security, and software teams, while guiding