Senior Network Architect: Secure, Scalable Connectivity

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Medical coverage

Parental leave

Insurance options

Commuter benefits

Training reimbursement

Vacation & holidays

401K plan

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Saint Louis, MO is seeking a Technical Architect to design secure, scalable network solutions across LAN, WAN, WLAN, and data centers. The role emphasizes translating business needs into robust architectures and leading senior engineering efforts.

You will mentor engineers, define standards, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security, availability, and performance while guiding modernization and automation initiatives.

Qualifications

• Advanced enterprise network architecture and operations experience.
• LAN/WAN/WLAN, data-center connectivity, TCP/IP, routing, switching, DNS, DHCP, VLANs.
• Hands-on with routers, switches, firewalls, and security tech.
• Design secure, scalable, highly available network solutions.
• Strong troubleshooting across complex networks.
• Knowledge of network security, compliance, and policy.
• Experience measuring performance, availability, latency, and risk.
• Proven leadership on large network initiatives and cross-functional collaboration.
• Experience defining standards, processes, lifecycle plans, best practices.
• Mentoring engineers and acting as SME; exposure to automation and IaC preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure, scalable LAN, WAN, WLAN, and data-center connectivity solutions.
• Translate business requirements into resilient network architectures and recommend improvements to solution quality.
• Provide senior engineering expertise across routing, switching, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, segmentation, load balancing, and connectivity technologies.
• Evaluate dependencies, interoperability, security, operational requirements, and technical risks when designing solutions.
• Provide senior-level support for complex incidents, performance degradation, connectivity issues, and recurring problems.
• Establish and monitor network performance and operational metrics and recommend corrective actions for capacity, availability, and latency risks.
• Lead network projects and provide technical leadership to project teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Scope technical deliverables, requirements, dependencies, risks, and issues for complex initiatives.
• Define, document, and implement network engineering standards, processes, procedures, and technical best practices.
• Support lifecycle planning, modernization, automation, and technology evaluation activities.
• Ensure network solutions align with applicable security policies, standards, procedures, and compliance requirements.
• Mentor network engineers, act as a subject-matter expert, and build effective relationships with internal teams,customers, vendors, and partners

Skills

Network Engineer

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Saint Louis, MO is seeking a Technical Architect to design secure, scalable network solutions across LAN, WAN, WLAN, and data centers. The role emphasizes translating business needs into robust architectures and leading senior engineering efforts.

You will mentor engineers, define standards, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security, availability, and performance while guiding modernization and automation initiatives.