Sr Network Architect

Schaumburg, IL

Up to $80-97K

Responsibilities:
-Responsible for product planning throughout the product lifecycle, including: gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining the product vision, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met.
-Design and develop innovative voice and data network solutions and use cases for sets of network products and services to meet customer’s needs.
-Work closely with consultants, product and marketing managers, network engineers, system engineers, and voice engineers.
-Responsible for the development of standard and custom network products ensuring that the product supports the company's overall strategy and goals.
-Define the product strategy and roadmap
-Work with external third parties to assess partnerships
-Run beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples
-Act as a leader within the company
-Business Requirements Collection & Analysis
-Technical Communications and Consulting
-Monitoring the development of new standards with TCP/IP and voice network technologies.
-Analyze business and market needs and translate them into clear, actionable product and service architectural requirements
-Work with business and product leaders to understand business requirements and help them understand how technology tradeoffs influence strategy
-Partner with Product Management to complete business cases for strategic concepts that will become products and services
-Operate as lead architect within a team of technical leads, each with individual specializations, to create a coherent and advanced architecture and offering
-Translate internal and external feedback and field research findings into product and service design improvements

Qualifications:
-Undergraduate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred but will consider applicants with equivalent work-related experience with a minimum educational requirement of a H.S. Diploma or GED equivalent
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills
-Excellent teamwork skills
-Proven ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority
-5 to 8 years experience with large enterprise networks or service provider networks
-Proven ability to create and maintain complex network architectures and designs.
-Working knowledge of IP network design and routing architectures.
-Working knowledge of VoIP network design and routing architectures.
-Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:
-ITIL v3 Training and certifications are a plus
-Experience with network solution cost structures and pricing of network solutions.
-Knowledge in Utility or Cloud Computing concepts and design
-IPv6 Network design and migration experience.
-Knowledge of layer-3 network design and routing protocols including BGP and OSPF.
-Knowledge of layer-2 network design and protocols including frame-relay, ATM, Ethernet, DWDM, and SONET.
-Knowledge of VoIP network architecture and design
-Knowledge of SIP architecture and design; SIP proxies, and Session Border Controllers
-Experience with carrier CoS / QoS services and Cisco or Junipers routers CoS / QoS policy configuration.
-Basic knowledge of operating systems including Windows, Unix, and Linx

Working Conditions:
Ability to meet the physical demands of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the background investigation and pre-employment drug screen.

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