Overview:
A Network Architect is responsible for designing and governing network architecture that supports business services.

This includes translating requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient designs, and making informed trade-off decisions across cost, risk, and performance.

Responsibilities:
Core Responsibilities
- Architecture and Design
- Design enterprise network architecture across data center, WAN, cloud, and hybrid environments
- Define standards, patterns, and reference architectures
- Ensure scalability, resiliency, and security by design
- Trade-off and Decision Making
- Balance performance, cost, risk, and operability
- Evaluate competing approaches (e.g., overlay vs underlay, vendor vs open solutions)
- Make design decisions at the system level rather than the device level
- This is a key differentiator compared to a technical project manager or engineer
- Vendor and Technology Neutrality
- Evaluate technologies across multiple vendors (e.g., Cisco, VMware, Juniper) and open source.
- Avoid designing around a single vendor’s constraints or bias




- Select solutions based on best architectural fit
- Complex Programme Delivery
- Lead architecture across large, multi-domain programmes
- Own end-to-end design coherence rather than isolated components
- Typically involves large-scale enterprise or highly regulated environments with multi-region and high-resilience requirements
- Stakeholder Management (Conflict Handling)
- Align stakeholders across security, operations, business, and vendors
- Manage conflicting requirements such as:
- Security vs usability
- Cost vs resiliency
- Speed vs governance
- Drive decisions to closure through effective communication
- Governance and Standards
- Define and enforce network standards
- Review designs to ensure alignment with architectural principles
- Provide guidance to engineering and delivery teams

Requirements:
Required Skills:
- Technical (Core Expectations)
- Solid fundamentals:
- Routing and protoc

📌 Network Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Prodapt
📍 Chennai