Coherent - Warrendale, PA
posted 2 months ago
The Principal Network Architect will serve as the global lead architect across the organization, focusing on network and associated security management technologies, policies, and practices. This role is pivotal in standardizing and optimizing global network designs, technologies, policies, and practices to ensure that technology solutions align with the company's strategic objectives and goals. The architect will be responsible for creating deliverables that manage the organization's portfolio of 'to be' and 'as is' solutions, enabling and driving targeted business outcomes. This includes clarifying strategic intentions, developing standards and roadmaps, and exploring implications, impacts, and risks associated with technology decisions. In this position, the Principal Network Architect will assess the current IT environment and develop a future state IT architecture that aligns with business priorities and objectives. They will build a long-term strategic roadmap for network and infra-security architecture, guiding technology investment decisions based on thorough analysis and evaluation. The architect will lead the evaluation, design, and analysis for the implementation of a solutions architecture across a group of technologies, ensuring alignment with enterprise business and IT strategy, requirements, and standards. The role requires a strong partnership with subject-matter experts to facilitate the design, optimization, standardization, and transformation of network and cybersecurity solutions. The architect will design high-availability, high-performing, and scalable heterogeneous network services, while also establishing governing principles for network architecture and design. Understanding business drivers and capabilities is crucial, as the architect will determine corresponding enterprise network designs and change requirements to drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. Additionally, they will analyze the network environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement, creating both short and long-term storage roadmaps based on strategic organizational requirements and technology alternatives.