Distinguished Engineer - Systems Architecture

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What you’ll be doing …
As 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.
You 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.
In 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:
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).
Workflow Modernization: Leading the modernization of legacy alarm processing, ticketing, and jBPM workflows into scalable, event-driven microservices architectures.
API & Resiliency Standards: Defining blueprint patterns and standards to refactor legacy automations into API-driven workflows with high resiliency, observability, and self-healing.
Development Execution & Code Quality: Leading development teams to ensure solid code implementation, data integrity, traceability, performance, and resiliency in workflow execution.
Executive Leadership & Facilitation: Partnering with Director and VP-level leadership to drive decision-making velocity, facilitate working sessions, and align cross-functional technical teams.
Organizational Change Management: Acting as an effective change agent using stakeholder analysis and structured change management techniques.
Directional Architecture & Governance: Creating architectural enablers and conducting design reviews to align systems with the Directional Architecture, Standard Operating Environment (SOE), and domain boundaries.
Talent Mentorship: Mentoring upcoming architects and development leads in the Service Assurance space.
Cross-Functional Technical Guidance: Providing technical guidance to cross-functional teams in crafting solutions and detailing system and process impacts.
Mission-Critical Domain Support: Supporting mission- and business-critical applications in Network Systems across provisioning and service qualification domains.
Continuous 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.
Agile Planning & Solution Definition: Participating in Development Cycle (DC) Planning, System/Solution Demos, Inspect & Adapt events, and exploring high-level solution trade-offs.
Program Execution & Process Optimization: Creating, leading, and executing programs focused on process optimization and technology adoption to maximize business value.
Full-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.
Frameworks & Schema Standardization: Defining reusable components, common schemas, standards, and tools to bootstrap the Service Qualification team.
Advanced Engineering & AI Innovation: Driving adoption of best software engineering practices and modern technologies (AI, LLM, ARG) to impact the broader product architecture ecosystem.
What we are looking for …
We 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.
You'll need to have:
Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
Experience in architecting scalable network fault management solutions for alarm processing, correlation, ticketing, and automated workflows across legacy and cutting-edge systems.
Proven success modernizing legacy core network automations and high-volume workflow engines into event-driven architectures without disrupting operations.
Experience 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.
Even better if you have:
Master’s Degree in computer science or related field.
Experience in conducting technical workshops on defining inter system communications.
Leading a team.
Skill in translating business requirements in the Core Network domain into technical design documents.
Experience designing and building complex, enterprise-grade Java-based architectural solutions.
Experience in providing solutions / Architecture for Modernization / Migration projects.
Experience developing and optimizing server architectures.
Experience with Java/ J2EE technologies, SpringBoot microservices.
Experience in SQL/NoSQL databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL.
Knowledge on cloud technologies - AWS cloud or docker containers - Kubernetes (K8S).
Experience in conversing/presenting to the executives with IT and non-IT backgrounds.
Experience in using AI tools including Claude Code, CoPilot, etc.
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