{"id":3464418,"url":"https://alion.io/job/hcltech-senior-technical-architect-wireless","title":"Senior Technical Architect - Wireless","company":{"id":225,"name":"HCLTech","domain":"hcltech.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/hcltech","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":152000,"max_usd":284000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":1500},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-29T14:57:36Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-29","last_verified_at":"2026-10-30T06:31:51Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Job Summary\nSenior Technical Architect - Wireless Position Overview We are seeking a Senior Technical Architect - Wireless to join our Technical Architecture team and help design, standardize, and evolve a large-scale global enterprise wireless environment. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced wireless engineer with CWNE or CCIE Wireless-level expertise who is looking to transition into architecture, as well as an architect who is relatively early in their architecture career. The Senior Technical Architect - Wireless will work closely with Network Engineering and other Technical Architects to develop wireless architectures, high-level designs, standards, LLD templates, golden configurations, and implementation guidelines. The organization is currently transitioning from Aruba to Cisco Meraki, providing the successful candidate with an opportunity to play a significant role in the architecture and standardization of the future wireless environment. This is a Senior-level architecture position. The successful candidate will have meaningful technical ownership while working alongside experienced Principal Technical Architects who will provide mentorship and guidance. Responsibilities Wireless Architecture & Design\nDevelop high-level designs for enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) environments.\nDevelop and maintain wireless reference architectures, standards, and design patterns.\nDesign enterprise wireless solutions addressing coverage, capacity, RF performance, resiliency, security, and operational requirements.\nEvaluate wireless technologies and designs for scalability, performance, security, and operational effectiveness.\nSupport the organization’s transition from Aruba to Cisco Meraki through architecture, design, standards, and technical guidance.\nParticipate in wireless technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and architecture assessments.\nContribute to wireless technology roadmaps and lifecycle planning. Wireless Engineering Standards\nDevelop and maintain wireless LLD templates, golden configurations, and configuration standards.\nEstablish standardized WLAN design and deployment practices that can be consistently implemented by Engineering.\nDevelop standards for RF configuration, SSIDs, authentication, roaming, RF management, channel utilization, power, and other WLAN parameters.\nPartner with Network Engineering to validate and continuously improve wireless standards and configurations.\nValidate wireless configurations and implementations against approved architecture, standards, HLDs, LLDs, and golden configurations.\nIdentify standards deviations and work with Engineering to resolve or formally document exceptions. Wireless Security & Access Control\nProvide architecture and technical guidance for enterprise wireless authentication and access control.\nDesign and support integration between wireless infrastructure and Aruba ClearPass and Cisco ISE.\nDevelop standards for 802.1X, WPA2/WPA3-Enterprise, guest access, device onboarding, and network access policies.\nWork with Security and Network Engineering to ensure wireless solutions meet enterprise security requirements. Technical Leadership\nOwn assigned wireless architecture initiatives and deliverables.\nReview engineering designs and provide architectural guidance.\nMentor wireless engineers and share technical knowledge.\nCreate Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and maintain architecture documentation.\nCollaborate with LAN/WAN, Security, Cloud, End User Computer, and other technical architects.\nWork with vendors and technology partners on wireless capabilities and solutions. Required Qualifications\n10+ years of enterprise wireless networking experience or equivalent depth of wireless engineering experience.\nStrong hands-on experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and optimizing enterprise WLAN environments.\nCWNE or CCIE Wireless-level expertise strongly preferred.\nStrong knowledge of: o Enterprise WLAN arch\nKey Responsibilities\nSenior Technical Architect - Wireless Position Overview We are seeking a Senior Technical Architect - Wireless to join our Technical Architecture team and help design, standardize, and evolve a large-scale global enterprise wireless environment. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced wireless engineer with CWNE or CCIE Wireless-level expertise who is looking to transition into architecture, as well as an architect who is relatively early in their architecture career. The Senior Technical Architect - Wireless will work closely with Network Engineering and other Technical Architects to develop wireless architectures, high-level designs, standards, LLD templates, golden configurations, and implementation guidelines. The organization is currently transitioning from Aruba to Cisco Meraki, providing the successful candidate with an opportunity to play a significant role in the architecture and standardization of the future wireless environment. This is a Senior-level architecture position. The successful candidate will have meaningful technical ownership while working alongside experienced Principal Technical Architects who will provide mentorship and guidance. Responsibilities Wireless Architecture & Design\nDevelop high-level designs for enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) environments.\nDevelop and maintain wireless reference architectures, standards, and design patterns.\nDesign enterprise wireless solutions addressing coverage, capacity, RF performance, resiliency, security, and operational requirements.\nEvaluate wireless technologies and designs for scalability, performance, security, and operational effectiveness.\nSupport the organization’s transition from Aruba to Cisco Meraki through architecture, design, standards, and technical guidance.\nParticipate in wireless technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and architecture assessments.\nContribute to wireless technology roadmaps and lifecycle planning. Wireless Engineering Standards\nDevelop and maintain wireless LLD templates, golden configurations, and configuration standards.\nEstablish standardized WLAN design and deployment practices that can be consistently implemented by Engineering.\nDevelop standards for RF configuration, SSIDs, authentication, roaming, RF management, channel utilization, power, and other WLAN parameters.\nPartner with Network Engineering to validate and continuously improve wireless standards and configurations.\nValidate wireless configurations and implementations against approved architecture, standards, HLDs, LLDs, and golden configurations.\nIdentify standards deviations and work with Engineering to resolve or formally document exceptions. Wireless Security & Access Control\nProvide architecture and technical guidance for enterprise wireless authentication and access control.\nDesign and support integration between wireless infrastructure and Aruba ClearPass and Cisco ISE.\nDevelop standards for 802.1X, WPA2/WPA3-Enterprise, guest access, device onboarding, and network access policies.\nWork with Security and Network Engineering to ensure wireless solutions meet enterprise security requirements. Technical Leadership\nOwn assigned wireless architecture initiatives and deliverables.\nReview engineering designs and provide architectural guidance.\nMentor wireless engineers and share technical knowledge.\nCreate Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and maintain architecture documentation.\nCollaborate with LAN/WAN, Security, Cloud, End User Computer, and other technical architects.\nWork with vendors and technology partners on wireless capabilities and solutions. Required Qualifications\n10+ years of enterprise wireless networking experience or equivalent depth of wireless engineering experience.\nStrong hands-on experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and optimizing enterprise WLAN environments.\nCWNE or CCIE Wireless-level expertise strongly preferred.\nStrong knowledge of: o Enterprise WLAN arch\nSkill Requirements\nSenior Technical Architect - Wireless Position Overview We are seeking a Senior Technical Architect - Wireless to join our Technical Architecture team and help design, standardize, and evolve a large-scale global enterprise wireless environment. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced wireless engineer with CWNE or CCIE Wireless-level expertise who is looking to transition into architecture, as well as an architect who is relatively early in their architecture career. The Senior Technical Architect - Wireless will work closely with Network Engineering and other Technical Architects to develop wireless architectures, high-level designs, standards, LLD templates, golden configurations, and implementation guidelines. The organization is currently transitioning from Aruba to Cisco Meraki, providing the successful candidate with an opportunity to play a significant role in the architecture and standardization of the future wireless environment. This is a Senior-level architecture position. The successful candidate will have meaningful technical ownership while working alongside experienced Principal Technical Architects who will provide mentorship and guidance. Responsibilities Wireless Architecture & Design\nDevelop high-level designs for enterprise wireless LAN (WLAN) environments.\nDevelop and maintain wireless reference architectures, standards, and design patterns.\nDesign enterprise wireless solutions addressing coverage, capacity, RF performance, resiliency, security, and operational requirements.\nEvaluate wireless technologies and designs for scalability, performance, security, and operational effectiveness.\nSupport the organization’s transition from Aruba to Cisco Meraki through architecture, design, standards, and technical guidance.\nParticipate in wireless technology evaluations, proof-of-concepts, and architecture assessments.\nContribute to wireless technology roadmaps and lifecycle planning. Wireless Engineering Standards\nDevelop and maintain wireless LLD templates, golden configurations, and configuration standards.\nEstablish standardized WLAN design and deployment practices that can be consistently implemented by Engineering.\nDevelop standards for RF configuration, SSIDs, authentication, roaming, RF management, channel utilization, power, and other WLAN parameters.\nPartner with Network Engineering to validate and continuously improve wireless standards and configurations.\nValidate wireless configurations and implementations against approved architecture, standards, HLDs, LLDs, and golden configurations.\nIdentify standards deviations and work with Engineering to resolve or formally document exceptions. Wireless Security & Access Control\nProvide architecture and technical guidance for enterprise wireless authentication and access control.\nDesign and support integration between wireless infrastructure and Aruba ClearPass and Cisco ISE.\nDevelop standards for 802.1X, WPA2/WPA3-Enterprise, guest access, device onboarding, and network access policies.\nWork with Security and Network Engineering to ensure wireless solutions meet enterprise security requirements. Technical Leadership\nOwn assigned wireless architecture initiatives and deliverables.\nReview engineering designs and provide architectural guidance.\nMentor wireless engineers and share technical knowledge.\nCreate Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and maintain architecture documentation.\nCollaborate with LAN/WAN, Security, Cloud, End User Computer, and other technical architects.\nWork with vendors and technology partners on wireless capabilities and solutions. Required Qualifications\n10+ years of enterprise wireless networking experience or equivalent depth of wireless engineering experience.\nStrong hands-on experience designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and optimizing enterprise WLAN environments.\nCWNE or CCIE Wireless-level expertise strongly preferred.\nStrong knowledge of: o Enterprise WLAN arch\nOther Requirements\nSenior Technical Architect - Wireless Position Overview We are seeking a Senior Technica...","description_format":"text","description_chars":15858,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Professional Services","Science & Engineering","Systems Integrators"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-29T14:57:36Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":31,"reasons":["conf:4","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-30T05:48:23Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hcltech-senior-technical-architect-wireless","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hcltech-senior-technical-architect-wireless.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-30T06:50:29Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":9666,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-31T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":225},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=225"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fhcltech-senior-technical-architect-wireless"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fhcltech-senior-technical-architect-wireless"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fhcltech-senior-technical-architect-wireless"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/hcltech-senior-technical-architect-wireless\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fhcltech-senior-technical-architect-wireless"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3464418}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"hcltech.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3464418},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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