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Inspired to work.\nCompeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together team members with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities. Join us in a culture that not only promotes meaningful work and professional development, but provides a flexible, hybrid work environment and excellent benefits, which empower you to thrive both personally and professionally.\nHow we support you:\nHybrid model - up to 50% work from home\nFlexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months\nUp to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)\nBenefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP\nVacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off\nLearning and development programs\nMentorship programs\nCross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)\nProfessional membership/certification reimbursement and more!\nCasual/seasonal & intern team members are not eligible for benefits except for state-mandated programs.\nTo learn more about Compeer Financial visit www.compeer.com/careers. \nWhere you will work: This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% remote and is based out of the Bloomington, IL; Sun Prairie, WI; Lakeville, MN; Mankato, MN office locations.\nThe contributions you will make: This position is an enterprise-level individual contributor and technical leader accountable for the engineering direction, reliability, and modernization of the organization's most complex network and telephony services. The role shapes multi-year technical direction, translates target-state architecture into scalable implementation patterns, leads high-impact cross-enterprise initiatives, and establishes standards for campus, branch, data center, cloud, WAN, wireless, voice, unified communications, carrier services, automation, security, and resilience. Influences leaders, engineers, and strategic vendors to deliver sustainable connectivity and communication capabilities across the enterprise.\nA typical day: \nLeads engineering direction, reference implementations, standards, and multi-year roadmaps for enterprise network and telephony services in partnership with architecture, product, security, cloud, and service management leaders.\nDesigns and leads delivery of complex network transformations, WAN and wireless modernization, cloud-connectivity programs, telephony and unified communications migrations, carrier transitions, automation initiatives, and resilience improvements.\nEstablishes reusable enterprise patterns for segmentation, routing, secure connectivity, quality of service, call routing, emergency calling, observability, automation, resiliency, lifecycle management, and operational support.\nLeads resolution of the highest-impact connectivity, performance, voice, carrier, and operational problems; performs deep technical analysis and drives systemic improvements across infrastructure, cloud, security, application, and vendor dependencies.\nDefines network and telephony engineering measures and practices for availability, performance, capacity, call quality, failover, recoverability, security, compliance, supportability, and production readiness.\nServes as a trusted technical advisor to leaders and strategic vendors; mentors senior engineers; and influences investment, vendor, carrier, sequencing, resilience, and lifecycle decisions through executive-ready recommendations.\nThe skills and experience we prefer you have: \nBachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, cybersecurity, telecommunications, or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.\nMinimum 10 or more years of progressive experience in network engineering, telecommunications, infrastructure engineering, systems engineering, technology operations, or a related field.\nDemonstrated success defining and leading enterprise-scale network and telephony strategy, modernization, automation, migrations, resilience improvements, and lifecycle initiatives across complex environments.\nExpert-level experience with routing, switching, wireless, WAN, cloud connectivity, network services, telephony, unified communications, carrier services, automation, observability, security, technical governance, and vendor or partner delivery.\nValid driver's license required.\nProfessional or expert level Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Arista, or comparable network and telecommunications certifications preferred\nExperience shaping enterprise adoption of software-defined networking, cloud networking, network observability, infrastructure-as-code, or unified communications and contact-center technologies, preferred.\nExperience in a regulated financial-services environment or with audit, risk, and control requirements, preferred.\nExperience defining enterprise service-level objectives and indicators, network performance measures, capacity baselines, and availability reporting, preferred.\nExperience leading enterprise-scale wireless, carrier, contact-center, or multi-site network transformation initiatives, preferred.\nKnowledge, Skills & Abilities\nDeep expertise in enterprise network and telephony engineering, including routing, switching, wireless, SD-WAN, cloud connectivity, network services, segmentation, voice, call routing, quality of service, unified communications, and carrier services.\nEnterprise-level systems thinking and engineering judgment, with the ability to connect business strategy, architecture, technical dependencies, service outcomes, resilience, risk, and cost.\nDemonstrated ability to create clarity, establish direction, lead through ambiguity, and resolve complex technical and organizational problems.\nExceptional technical leadership, facilitation, communication, storytelling, negotiation, and influencing skills, including communication with executive audiences.\nAbility to mentor senior engineers, establish enterprise standards and reusable patterns, and raise engineering capability without relying on formal authority.\nStrong financial, carrier, and vendor acumen, with the ability to evaluate investments, contracts, licensing, technology lifecycle, technical debt, and total cost of ownership.\nAdvanced knowledge of cybersecurity, regulatory and emergency-calling requirements, change management, operational resilience, disaster recovery, and risk management in a financial services environment.\nHow we will take care of you:\nOur job titles may span more than one career level (associate, senior, principal, etc.). The actual title and base pay offered is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for variable compensation and other benefits.\nBase Pay\n$118,500—$180,000 USD\nCompeer Financial is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.\nMust be authorized to work for any employer in the United States. 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