Senior Lead Network Architect - AI-Ready, Scalable

Lumen; Santa Fe (NM); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Lumen seeks a Senior Lead Network Architect to design and evolve resilient, scalable Internet, MPLS core, VPN edge, and Metro Ethernet networks. You will drive automation, streaming telemetry, and AI-enabled operations across large-scale infrastructures.

Responsibilities include leading architecture standards, cross-functional decisions, and interoperability across IP, Optical/Transport, and security teams. Bachelor’s degree required; CCIE/JNCIE preferred; 10+ years in carrier-scale networks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, CS, Math, or related discipline.
• CCIE and/or JNCIE certifications are highly preferred.

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.

Skills

Network architecture

Routing protocols

Network automation

Telemetry

Programming (Python)

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/CS/Math

Tools

Python

Ansible

NETCONF/YANG

RESTCONF

gNMI

gRPC

APIs

Job description

Lumen seeks a Senior Lead Network Architect to design and evolve resilient, scalable Internet, MPLS core, VPN edge, and Metro Ethernet networks. You will drive automation, streaming telemetry, and AI-enabled operations across large-scale infrastructures.

Responsibilities include leading architecture standards, cross-functional decisions, and interoperability across IP, Optical/Transport, and security teams. Bachelor’s degree required; CCIE/JNCIE preferred; 10+ years in carrier-scale networks.