Sr Manager, Systems Architecture Eng

Job Overview

The pace of change is evolving faster than ever, and so is how we plan, engineer, and deploy. This role sits at the intersection of that change — leading strategy and business operations within the Network Deployment & Initiatives team in the Network Infrastructure & Operations organization. The Sr. Manager determines and enables hardware deployment readiness, integrating deployment process and strategy with financial and operational planning to deliver outcomes that shape deployment efficiency.

Job Responsibilities

• Build, develop, and inspire a high-performing team of Senior+ engineers; foster a culture of accountability, ownership, innovation, and continuous growth.
• Continuously improve team processes, tools, operational efficiency, and delivery velocity — building systems that scale.
• Own the organizational capex budget
• Define deployment process and approach for pre-GA technologies and emerging capabilities
• Drive AI integration across team workflows, tooling, and operations — as a current expectation, not a future aspiration.
• Build and sustain trusted partnerships with stakeholders across internal and external partners; influence outcomes across organizational boundaries.
• Develop engineers into cross-org technical leaders who drive direction and decisions beyond their immediate scope.
• Communicate strategy, progress, and risk to senior and executive leadership with clarity and business context.

Education and Work Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree and/or 8 years of related experience, OR Advanced degree with 6 years (Required)
• Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Preferred)
• 5+ years of People Management experience, including leading Senior+ level engineers (Preferred)
• Technical background in IP networking, systems architecture, or infrastructure engineering (Preferred)
• Experience managing organizational budgets and making investment trade-offs (Preferred)
• Experience with external technology vendor partnerships and negotiations (Preferred)

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Engineering Leadership & Talent Development — Builds and develops high-performing Senior+ technical teams; coaches engineers into cross-org leaders; creates cultures of accountability, innovation, and growth.
• Strategic Thinking & Long-Range Planning — Determines standards, strategy and efficiencies for hardware deployment. Turns long-horizon goals into actionable roadmaps; balances near-term delivery with long-term capability building in fast-moving environments.
• Technical Credibility — Sufficient technical depth to earn the trust of Senior+ engineers; guides architectural decisions and accelerates problem-solving without being the executor.
• High Agency & Adaptability — Moves with urgency; creates clarity in undefined spaces including pre-GA technologies and greenfield capability areas; builds teams that share this orientation.
• AI Integration & Innovation — Actively integrates AI tools into engineering workflows and team operations today; builds a culture that experiments and operates at the frontier of emerging technology.
• Organizational Influence — Influences decisions and aligns outcomes across NIO, T-Mobile leadership, and external partners; credible with technical and non-technical audiences at all levels.
• Financial & Resource Management — Manages organizational budgets and resource allocation with rigor; translates financial decisions into business impact for leadership.
• Communication & Executive Presence — Communicates complex strategy clearly and concisely; consistently builds confidence with senior and executive stakeholders.
• Operational Excellence — Designs processes that allow teams to scale; manages competing priorities with discipline; drives continuous improvement in delivery and execution.
• Vendor Management — Selects vendor partners capable of matching a world-class, cost-optimized deployment standard; holds partners accountable for performance and outcomes, driving them toward genuine operational maturity; builds oversight structures that scale without compromising quality or schedule.

Company Information

T-Mobile USA, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All decisions concerning the employment relationship will be made without regard to age, race, ethnicity, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, religious affiliation, marital status, citizenship status, veteran status, the presence of any physical or mental disability, or any other status or characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. Discrimination, retaliation or harassment based upon any of these factors is wholly inconsistent with how we do business and will not be tolerated.