{"id":2905890,"url":"https://alion.io/job/jazz-pakistan-lead-architect-network-security","title":"Lead Architect - Network & Security","company":{"id":62266,"name":"Jazz Pakistan","domain":"jazz.com.pk","url":"https://alion.io/company/jazz-com","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":null},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Karachi, Pakistan"],"countries":["PK"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":18000,"max_usd":47000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":184},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"BGP","optional":false},{"name":"FortiGate","optional":false},{"name":"MPLS","optional":false},{"name":"OSPF","optional":false}],"status":"closed","first_seen_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-02","last_verified_at":"2026-10-22T16:28:44Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":"2026-10-22T16:28:44Z","days_open":20,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":20},"description":"Grade Level: L3\nLocation: Karachi\nLast date to apply: 9th October 2026\nWhat is Lead Architect - Network & Security?\nThe Lead Architect - Network & Security is the design authority for all network and network-security work delivered by Jazz Enterprise Solutions' systems integration team, and leads the engineers who deliver it. Customers span enterprise, financial services and the public sector.\nThe work covers data centre fabrics, enterprise WAN and SD-WAN, next-generation firewalls, network access control and secure edge services. The role owns how those estates are designed, the standards the team designs to, and the technical quality of what finally goes live.\nThe role is based in Karachi with nationwide delivery coverage and reports to the Head of Delivery - SI, Cybersecurity & Managed Services.\nWhat does Lead Architect - Network & Security do?\nScope and boundaries\nDesign authority for network and security delivery for all SI projects. Network and security engineers in the team report through this role.\nArchitecture and design\nOwn the reference architectures, design standards and technical patterns the team works to, and keep them current as OEM roadmaps move.\nProduce and review High-Level and Low-Level Designs, methods of procedure, migration and rollback plans, and as-built records.\nSign off every network and security design before it goes to implementation.\nMake sure designs meet customer security, audit and regulatory requirements, including State Bank of Pakistan expectations in the financial sector.\nDelivery\nLead complex implementations and migrations end to end: data centre fabric builds, WAN and SD-WAN rollouts, firewall migrations, NAC deployments, secure edge services.\nPlan and run change in live production environments with defined fallback and validation criteria.\nAct as the engineering escalation point for network and security (Tier 3 / Tier 4), and lead root-cause analysis on complex incidents.\nHand over cleanly into managed services, with runbooks, documentation and a proper knowledge transfer.\nTeam\nLead the network and security engineers. Allocate work, manage capacity and skills coverage, and hold the team to the standards the role sets.\nAssess and develop the team, including engineers moving across from connectivity delivery into integration and security work.\nMaintain the skills matrix and drive the certification depth that Jazz's OEM partner tiers depend on.\nInterview candidates for the team and take new engineers through onboarding.\nBid support\nWork with Solutions Engineering on bids. Validate feasibility, effort, resource availability and delivery risk before anything is committed commercially.\nCheck bills of quantity and materials for technical correctness and deliverability.\nProvide the network and security input to the delivery gate, and record the technical assumptions that carry into delivery.\nSupport customer workshops, proofs of concept and technical presentations where that depth is needed.\nOEM and vendor\nKeep working technical relationships with Cisco, Fortinet, Huawei, Palo Alto, F5 and their local partners and distributors.\nRun OEM technical escalations, TAC cases and vendor professional-services engagements on complex programmes.\nAssess new technologies entering the portfolio for fit, supportability and what they mean for delivery.\nWhat success looks like after twelve months\nReference architectures and design standards published, and actually used.\nEvery network and security design signed off before implementation, with exceptions logged rather than absorbed.\nSkills matrix and certification roadmap live, with named owners and dates.\nTechnical assumptions recorded on every qualified bid.\nEscalation volume falling, and the causes fed back into the design standards.\nJazz is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support, and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.Grade Level: L3\nLocation: Karachi\nLast date to apply: HR will share\nWhat is Lead Architect - Network & Security?\nThe Lead Architect - Network & Security is the design authority for all network and network-security work delivered by Jazz Enterprise Solutions' systems integration team, and leads the engineers who deliver it. Customers span enterprise, financial services and the public sector.\nThe work covers data centre fabrics, enterprise WAN and SD-WAN, next-generation firewalls, network access control and secure edge services. The role owns how those estates are designed, the standards the team designs to, and the technical quality of what finally goes live.\nThe role is based in Karachi with nationwide delivery coverage and reports to the Head of Delivery - SI, Cybersecurity & Managed Services.\nWhat does Lead Architect - Network & Security do?\nScope and boundaries\nDesign authority for network and security delivery for all SI projects. Network and security engineers in the team report through this role.\nArchitecture and design\nOwn the reference architectures, design standards and technical patterns the team works to, and keep them current as OEM roadmaps move.\nProduce and review High-Level and Low-Level Designs, methods of procedure, migration and rollback plans, and as-built records.\nSign off every network and security design before it goes to implementation.\nMake sure designs meet customer security, audit and regulatory requirements, including State Bank of Pakistan expectations in the financial sector.\nDelivery\nLead complex implementations and migrations end to end: data centre fabric builds, WAN and SD-WAN rollouts, firewall migrations, NAC deployments, secure edge services.\nPlan and run change in live production environments with defined fallback and validation criteria.\nAct as the engineering escalation point for network and security (Tier 3 / Tier 4), and lead root-cause analysis on complex incidents.\nHand over cleanly into managed services, with runbooks, documentation and a proper knowledge transfer.\nTeam\nLead the network and security engineers. Allocate work, manage capacity and skills coverage, and hold the team to the standards the role sets.\nAssess and develop the team, including engineers moving across from connectivity delivery into integration and security work.\nMaintain the skills matrix and drive the certification depth that Jazz's OEM partner tiers depend on.\nInterview candidates for the team and take new engineers through onboarding.\nBid support\nWork with Solutions Engineering on bids. Validate feasibility, effort, resource availability and delivery risk before anything is committed commercially.\nCheck bills of quantity and materials for technical correctness and deliverability.\nProvide the network and security input to the delivery gate, and record the technical assumptions that carry into delivery.\nSupport customer workshops, proofs of concept and technical presentations where that depth is needed.\nOEM and vendor\nKeep working technical relationships with Cisco, Fortinet, Huawei, Palo Alto, F5 and their local partners and distributors.\nRun OEM technical escalations, TAC cases and vendor professional-services engagements on complex programmes.\nAssess new technologies entering the portfolio for fit, supportability and what they mean for delivery.\nWhat success looks like after twelve months\nReference architectures and design standards published, and actually used.\nEvery network and security design signed off before implementation, with exceptions logged rather than absorbed.\nSkills matrix and certification roadmap live, with named owners and dates.\nTechnical assumptions recorded on every qualified bid.\nEscalation volume falling, and the causes fed back into the design standards.\nJazz is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support, and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.\nRequirements\nWhat are we looking for and what does it require to be Lead Architect - Network & Security?\nExperience and education\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical or Electronics Engineering, or a related discipline.\n12+ years in enterprise network and network-security engineering, hands-on, including at least three years leading a technical team.\nA track record of delivering complex multi-vendor network and security programmes for enterprise or financial services customers, through to customer acceptance.\nMigrations and technology refreshes executed in live production, with structured fallback planning and minimal disruption.\nPre-sales exposure: solution validation, effort estimation, bill of materials review, and standing in front of a customer to defend a design.\nEvidence of developing engineers. Mentoring, certification planning, and raising the standard of a team's work.\nTechnical\nData centre: Cisco ACI including multi-pod and multi-site, Nexus platforms, VXLAN/EVPN fabrics, data centre interconnect, and the equivalent Huawei architectures.\nWAN and SD-WAN: Cisco SD-WAN and Meraki, Fortinet, Huawei. MPLS, BGP, OSPF, DMVPN, and WAN aggregation at branch scale.\nSecurity: next-generation firewalls (Cisco FTD/FMC/ASA, FortiGate, Palo Alto, Huawei USG), IPS, WAF, micro-segmentation, secure remote access, DDoS mitigation.\nAccess control and identity: Cisco ISE (802.1X, MAB, posture, profiling, TACACS+), multi-factor authentication, directory integration.\nApplication delivery and load balancing (F5, Kemp), campus switching and enterprise wireless.\nCCIE Enterprise Infrastructure or Security strongly preferred. CCNP, PCNSE, Fortinet NSE, Huawei HCIP/HCIE or CISSP will be considered alongside demonstrated design authority on comparable work.\nDocumentation discipline: HLDs, LLDs, MOPs, migration plans and as-builts that someone else can pick up and use.\nMarket and domain\nDelivery experience with Pakistani financial services customers: commercial and microfinance banks, insurance, fintech. Their change control, audit and regulatory expectations are not the same as everyone else's.\nFamiliarity with primary and disaster-recovery site architectures, segmented environments and regulated network zones.\nWorking knowledge of the local OEM, distributor and partner ecosystem.\nHow you work\nCredible with senior engineers, and able to hold design authority on technical merit.\nWorks well across Solutions Engineering, Technical Support & Service Assurance, Delivery Excellence and Supply Chain.\nExplains technical risk and design trade-offs to people who are not engineers.\nSound judgement on effort and sequencing, and the discipline to raise a problem early rather than absorb it.\nWilling to travel nationwide and to work customer change windows, which often fall outside office hours.\nBenefits\nWhy join JazzWorld?\nAs a certified Top Employer, JazzWorld reflects workplace standards benchmarked against leading global organizations, demonstrating our commitmnet to creating an environment where people can thrive and perform at their best. Our teams are driven by the belief that every JazzWorld employee should be inspired to live better every day, enabled by forward-looking leadership, an open culture, meaningful work, and continuous opportunities to learn and grow.\nOur core values - Customer Obsession, Truthful, Innovation, Collaboration, and Entrepreneurial shape how we think, decide, and lead. They encourage us to challenge convention, act with accountability, work as one team, and create solutions that truly matter for our customers and communities.\nAs Pakistan's largest digital operator, JazzWorld serves over 100 million through connectivity, digital services, financial inclusion, entertainment, and insurance. Joining us means being part of transformation at a national scale; expanding access, unlocking opportunity, and building a more connected digital future.\nAt JazzWorld, everything we do is rooted in one shared ambition. 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