Network Architecture Lead

The role

The Network Architecture Lead provides architectural oversight and long-term design direction for trading and enterprise networks. You will define standards and ensure designs are scalable, supportable, and aligned with business requirements.

What you will do

• Design and maintain documentation for current-state, target-state and transition plans for global networks.
• Define architecture standards and reference designs in cooperation with network teams.
• Review significant designs for scalability, resilience, latency, simplicity and operational support.
• Document design decisions, dependencies, monitoring requirements and expected operating models.
• Define instrumentation standards covering telemetry, monitoring, logging, alerting and dashboards.
• Identify and track architectural risks, technical debt and gaps between current and target states.
• Apply lessons from project delivery, operational experience and incidents to strengthen future designs.
• Build alignment across engineering and business stakeholders to ensure adoption of consistent design patterns.

Required qualifications

• Deep experience designing complex, multi-site network environments.
• Strong knowledge of WAN, data-centre networking, BGP, multicast, VXLAN/EVPN and low-latency design.
• Experience producing architecture plans, standards, reference designs and decision records.
• Strong understanding of instrumentation and operational visibility.
• Knowledge of network equipment supporting business systems and FPGA-connected network paths.
• Strong communication and influencing skills to build agreement across teams without direct authority.

Benefits

• Initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

About the company

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager. It is a technology- and data-driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing.