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Renowned for our ability to architect intelligence, we connect, protect, and transform organizations, empowering them to thrive in today's digital landscape. Arctiq builds on decades of industry expertise and a customer-centric ethos to deliver exceptional value to clients across diverse industries.\nPosition Overview:\nThe Networking Technology Lead is the architecture authority for Arctiq's networking practice. This role owns the design standards, reference architectures, and technology strategy that define how Arctiq delivers networking solutions across its managed services portfolio. The Tech Lead works closely with Solution Architects on complex customer engagements, leads the networking technology roadmap, and ensures the delivery team operates against a consistent, modern, and defensible design standard. This is a forward-facing, design-focused role - the value delivered is in the quality and repeatability of architecture, not in being an operational seat.\nResponsibilities\nThe networking architecture library: reference designs, standard configurations, and approved patterns for LAN/WAN, SD-WAN, firewall, and wireless deployments.\nThe networking technology roadmap: vendor assessments, platform decisions, and capability investments that shape the practice over time.\nDesign quality across the practice: review and approval of major customer solutions before they reach delivery.\nThe technical voice in pre-sales for complex or strategic networking engagements.\nThe automation and tooling direction for network provisioning, configuration management, and performance monitoring.\n- Architecture and Design Standards\nDefine and maintain reference architectures for core networking domains: LAN/WAN, firewall and security-edge, SD-WAN, wireless, and cloud networking interconnects.\nEstablish and govern design standards and configuration patterns used across all managed services customer environments.\nLead design reviews for complex or high-risk customer deployments, ensuring solutions meet Arctiq standards before they reach the delivery team.\nDevelop and maintain a library of standard designs, build guides, and approved technology patterns accessible to engineering and delivery personnel.\nDefine the review and approval process for non-standard designs and exceptions to established patterns.\n- Technology Strategy and Roadmap\nOwn the networking technology roadmap - evaluate emerging platforms, assess vendor trajectory, and make recommendations on technology investments.\nAssess and pilot new networking platforms (SD-WAN, SASE, AI-driven network management) to identify opportunities that enhance delivery quality or expand practice capabilities.\nServe as the technical decision-maker for networking platform and vendor selections.\nMaintain currency with market direction and ensure Arctiq's architecture standards reflect best-in-class approaches.\nProvide input to the practice business case for new networking service offerings based on architecture feasibility and delivery readiness.\n- Pre-Sales and Customer Engagement\nPartner with Solution Architects on complex and strategic pre-sales engagements, providing architectural depth and credibility for networking-intensive opportunities.\nReview and validate customer solution designs prior to proposal, ensuring accuracy, feasibility, and alignment with delivery standards.\nSupport proof-of-concept and design workshops for key prospects or strategic expansion opportunities.\nRepresent Arctiq's networking architecture capability in customer QBRs and technology roadmap discussions.\nDevelop reusable proposal content, architecture diagrams, and technical narratives for common networking solution patterns.\n- Automation and Innovation\nLead the adoption of automation frameworks and AI-driven tooling for network provisioning, configuration management, and performance monitoring.\nIdentify and eliminate manual touchpoints in the delivery lifecycle through design-level automation - embedding repeatability into the architecture itself, not as an afterthought.\nDrive adoption of AI-enabled anomaly detection and performance monitoring capabilities that reduce customer downtime and improve mean time to resolution (MTTR).\nCollaborate with practice technology leadership to align automation investments across networking, compute, and security domains.\nGovernance and Knowledge Development\nLead the networking practice's contribution to the monthly Services Governance Forum - representing standards, roadmap decisions, and design direction.\nEnsure all architecture decisions and design patterns are documented, version-controlled, and accessible to the delivery team.\nDevelop training content and knowledge-transfer materials that raise architectural competency across the engineering team.\nMentor engineers on design thinking, architecture principles, and standards adherence - building the team's ability to execute independently against the defined standard.\nQualifications\n8+ years of networking engineering or architecture experience, with at least 3 years in a design-focused or architecture role.\nDemonstrated experience designing enterprise networking solutions at scale - multi-site, multi-vendor, hybrid cloud environments.\nBackground in managed services, professional services, or consulting strongly preferred.\nExperience mentoring engineers or leading a technical team on standards and design quality.\nExpert-level knowledge across core enterprise networking domains: routing and switching (Cisco, Juniper), security-edge (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Check Point), SD-WAN (Meraki, VeloCloud, Fortinet Secure SD-WAN), and wireless (Cisco, Aruba, Meraki).\nProficiency in cloud networking and interconnect architectures: AWS Transit Gateway, Azure Virtual WAN, hybrid connectivity patterns.\nExperience with SASE frameworks (Zscaler, Prisma Access, or equivalent) and SDN architecture.\nFamiliarity with AI-driven network management and automation platforms (Cisco Catalyst Center, Aruba Central, Auvik, or equivalent).\nNetwork automation experience: Ansible, Python-based configuration management, or equivalent tooling.\nStrong documentation skills - able to produce architecture diagrams, design guides, and decision records that others can execute against.\nCertifications (Preferred)\nCCIE (Enterprise Infrastructure, Routing and Switching, or Security) or equivalent expert-level certification.\nAt minimum: Cisco CCNP Enterprise, Palo Alto PCNSE, or Fortinet NSE 7/8 if CCIE not held.\nCloud networking certifications (AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer) a plus.\nIdeal Candidate\nYou think in reference architectures, not individual tickets.\nYou can credibly represent Arctiq's networking capability in a customer boardroom.\nYou reduce escalations by building better standards - not by being the person escalations flow to.\nEngineers build from your blueprints and rarely need to ask the same design question twice.\nThe practice's architecture library grows more complete with each engagement, not just when something breaks.\nArctiq is an equal opportunity employer. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know. We celebrate our inclusive work environment and welcome members of all backgrounds and perspectives to apply.\nWe thank you for your interest in joining the Arctiq team! 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