Network Architecture Lead

Requirements

• 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, with the ability to build agreement across teams without direct authority.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and maintain documentation for the current-state, target-state and transition plans for QRT’s global trading and enterprise networks.
• Define architecture standards and reference designs in cooperation with the 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, ensuring teams adopt consistent and documented design patterns.

Perks and Benefits

• QRT is an equal opportunity employer.
• We welcome diversity as essential to our success.
• QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success.
• Offering initiatives and programs to enable employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance.