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A place to share your ideas freely - even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love - driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together - lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.\nWhat you’ll be doing …\nAs a Distinguished Engineer in Network & Technology IT, you will serve as the domain expert in Network Service Assurance. Your primary objective is driving autonomous, intent-driven network operations for global management teams. Key responsibilities include building AI-driven agentic workflows, integrating wireless and wireline surveillance, correlation, and ticketing systems, and incorporating 3rd party tools. You will lead end-to-end program delivery across network engineering and provisioning using legacy and modern solutions, providing thought leadership in ideation and requirements sessions.\nYou will lead design and development for alarm/event processing, correlation, and automation. Your role encompasses DevSecOps leadership and technology modernization-specifically refactoring legacy workflow, correlation, and automation systems to modern, cloud-native Standard Operating Environment (SOE) standards.\nIn collaboration with Centralized and Enterprise Architecture teams, you will align on solutions, domain boundaries, and high-level architectural principles. You will partner with development teams in Planning, Engineering, Inventory, and Workflow/Orchestration to align HLDs and API definitions, ensuring timely delivery with cross-functional partners. Key responsibilities include:\n End-to-End Core Architecture: Architecting end-to-end functionality across core modules (UFM, UWA, SA360/UTP) for key wireline and wireless initiatives (ANO360, Frontier Integration, iEN, Sesame).\nWorkflow Modernization: Leading the modernization of legacy alarm processing, ticketing, and jBPM workflows into scalable, event-driven microservices architectures.\nAPI & Resiliency Standards: Defining blueprint patterns and standards to refactor legacy automations into API-driven workflows with high resiliency, observability, and self-healing.\nDevelopment Execution & Code Quality: Leading development teams to ensure solid code implementation, data integrity, traceability, performance, and resiliency in workflow execution.\nExecutive Leadership & Facilitation: Partnering with Director and VP-level leadership to drive decision-making velocity, facilitate working sessions, and align cross-functional technical teams.\nOrganizational Change Management: Acting as an effective change agent using stakeholder analysis and structured change management techniques.\nDirectional Architecture & Governance: Creating architectural enablers and conducting design reviews to align systems with the Directional Architecture, Standard Operating Environment (SOE), and domain boundaries.\nTalent Mentorship: Mentoring upcoming architects and development leads in the Service Assurance space.\nCross-Functional Technical Guidance: Providing technical guidance to cross-functional teams in crafting solutions and detailing system and process impacts.\nMission-Critical Domain Support: Supporting mission- and business-critical applications in Network Systems across provisioning and service qualification domains.\nContinuous Delivery & Vendor Alignment: Aligning teams to a shared technical direction and partnering with vendors and internal teams to validate assumptions, evaluate options, and build the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.\nAgile Planning & Solution Definition: Participating in Development Cycle (DC) Planning, System/Solution Demos, Inspect & Adapt events, and exploring high-level solution trade-offs.\nProgram Execution & Process Optimization: Creating, leading, and executing programs focused on process optimization and technology adoption to maximize business value.\nFull-Lifecycle Solution Architecture: Delivering end-to-end solution architecture from definition through go-live across Logical, Technical, and Physical views for new and existing problem spaces.\nFrameworks & Schema Standardization: Defining reusable components, common schemas, standards, and tools to bootstrap the Service Qualification team.\n Advanced Engineering & AI Innovation: Driving adoption of best software engineering practices and modern technologies (AI, LLM, ARG) to impact the broader product architecture ecosystem.\nWhat we are looking for …\nWe are seeking an inquisitive, strategic, and data-driven leader with exceptional influencing skills across multi-level organizations and deep expertise in software engineering and architecture concepts.\nYou'll need to have:\nBachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.\nEight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.\nExperience in architecting scalable network fault management solutions for alarm processing, correlation, ticketing, and automated workflows across legacy and cutting-edge systems.\nProven success modernizing legacy core network automations and high-volume workflow engines into event-driven architectures without disrupting operations.\nExperience in Core Network domain architecture and software engineering, specializing in high-volume process flow modeling and end-to-end product design for complex business environments.\nEven better if you have:\nMaster’s Degree in computer science or related field.\nExperience in conducting technical workshops on defining inter system communications.\nLeading a team.\nSkill in translating business requirements in the Core Network domain into technical design documents.\nExperience designing and building complex, enterprise-grade Java-based architectural solutions.\nExperience in providing solutions / Architecture for Modernization / Migration projects.\nExperience developing and optimizing server architectures.\nExperience with Java/ J2EE technologies, SpringBoot microservices.\nExperience in SQL/NoSQL databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL.\nKnowledge on cloud technologies - AWS cloud or docker containers - Kubernetes (K8S).\nExperience in conversing/presenting to the executives with IT and non-IT backgrounds.\nExperience in using AI tools including Claude Code, CoPilot, etc.\nExperience with enterprise orchestration, BPM engines, and multi-system task management.\nExperience in legacy-to-modern migrations using Strangler Fig pattern, domain-driven design, and workflow engines (e.g., Camunda, Temporal).\nWorked in a large cross-functional team structure.\nExperience working in the telecom industry.\nWorking with vendors and vendor management.\nIf Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.\nWhere you’ll be working\nIn this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.Scheduled Weekly Hours\n40Equal Employment Opportunity \nVerizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.\nBenefits and Compensation\nOur benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.\nThe salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. 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