Lead Network Engineer

About the role

The Lead Network Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting purpose-built networks. This role serves as the technical leader for the network engineering and operations team, ensuring consistency, scalability, reliability, and alignment with long-term business and technology strategies.

Responsibilities

• Mentors team members in the areas of technical aptitude and expertise, soft skills, risk analysis, and relationship management
• Adeptly performs relationship management across all levels of the business unit and network services teams
• Directly participates in and oversees the design, engineering, and deployment of business unit network solutions and capabilities
• Advocates for the business unit, and its needs, in driving new standards, processes, and the adoption of new technologies
• Oversee and manage quality service delivery from vendors and third parties
• Performs risk management with respect to project oversight and solution development oversight, quickly raising issues to leadership
• Applies business rationale in the review of designs and solutions developed by the team, ensuring fit for use and financial efficacy
• Understands how data can improve efficiency and employs methods to exploit these benefits
• Provides expert technical leadership and is adept in the core technologies required
• BU specific technologies - expert understanding of not only core network concepts and technologies, but also maintains working knowledge of BU specific technologies
• Drives development and enhancement of vendor technologies, strategies, and roadmaps
• Drives adherence to technical standards, and where appropriate, proposes new standards and technologies

Requirements

• Minimum of 7+ years of technology evaluation, problem resolution, and project management experience
• Advanced communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to work with a wide array of technical and managerial personnel to solve complex problems
• Strong customer service skills and orientation
• Knowledge of film entertainment, hospitality, video distribution, multicast and broadcast
• Experience in Wide area and Local Area network design, configuration, installation, evaluation, problem resolution, and project management
• Deep understanding of network concepts such as LAN, WAN, Internet and WiFi
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coordinate, and oversee complex projects
• Strong presentation skills
• Adept at written and oral communications
• Strong requirements facilitation skills
• Ability to interface and collaborate directly with IT constituents, executives, business partners, and vendors
• Ability to think innovatively
• Self-organizing and motivated
• Has demonstrated success in the areas of team leadership, management, and mentorship
• Can scale influence and leadership across a broad array business use cases and projects
• Understands and can practically apply the concepts of infrastructure service delivery, and service roadmaps
• Sets the voice of the customer
• Thinks in terms of technologies and business/technical capabilities
• Can comprehend and apply architecture and frameworks to engineering designs and design reviews
• Understands delivery of infrastructure as a service
• Possesses strong communication skills resulting in the ability to produce clear, concise and consumable verbal and written communications/departures
• Is self-organizing and capable of autonomous execution
• Is self-aware
• Is able to effectively interact with cross-functional senior technical and executive resources

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7+ years of technology evaluation, problem resolution, and project management experience
• Advanced communication skills, particularly the ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to work with a wide array of technical and managerial personnel to solve complex problems
• Strong customer service skills and orientation
• Knowledge of film entertainment, hospitality, video distribution, multicast and broadcast
• Experience in Wide area and Local Area network design, configuration, installation, evaluation, problem resolution, and project management
• Deep understanding of network concepts such as LAN, WAN, Internet and WiFi
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coordinate, and oversee complex projects
• Strong presentation skills
• Adept at written and oral communications
• Strong requirements facilitation skills
• Ability to interface and collaborate directly with IT constituents, executives, business partners, and vendors
• Ability to think innovatively
• Self-organizing and motivated
• Has demonstrated success in the areas of team leadership, management, and mentorship
• Can scale influence and leadership across a broad array business use cases and projects
• Understands and can practically apply the concepts of infrastructure service delivery, and service roadmaps
• Sets the voice of the customer
• Thinks in terms of technologies and business/technical capabilities
• Can comprehend and apply architecture and frameworks to engineering designs and design reviews
• Understands delivery of infrastructure as a service
• Possesses strong communication skills resulting in the ability to produce clear, concise and consumable verbal and written communications/departures
• Is self-organizing and capable of autonomous execution
• Is self-aware
• Is able to effectively interact with cross-functional senior technical and executive resources

Preferred Qualifications

• Core vendor specific certifications (Cisco and/or Arista and/or Palo Alto)

Required Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Network Engineering, Electrical Engineering or comparable field of study, and/or equivalent work experience