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.

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
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, cloud, and application teams
• 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

Required Skills:
• Technical (Core

📌 Network Architect (Chennai)
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