Solution Architect - Networks
The Solution / Network Architect is responsible for leading complex infrastructure discovery, design, and transformation initiatives across large-scale enterprise environments. The role provides strategic and technical leadership across network architecture, monitoring platforms, and addressing frameworks, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with organisational and government standards.
This role partners closely with operational teams, security, clinical/business stakeholders, and executive sponsors to translate business and operational needs into robust, future-proof technical architectures. The Architect will produce high-quality artefacts including current-state assessments, target-state designs, options papers, and implementation roadmaps.
Key Responsibilities
Architecture & Strategy
- Lead end-to-end architecture activities across enterprise network and infrastructure domains.
- Develop current-state and future-state architectures aligned to organisational strategy and digital transformation objectives.
- Define architectural principles, standards, and patterns for network, monitoring, and addressing solutions.
- Ensure all designs meet security, resilience, scalability, and government compliance requirements.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Engage with business, clinical, security, and technical stakeholders to gather and analyse requirements.
- Facilitate workshops and interviews to capture operational needs and future-state expectations.
- Translate business and operational objectives into clear, actionable technical designs.
Monitoring & Operations Architecture
- Review and assess existing monitoring and alerting platforms across the enterprise.
- Identify gaps, overlaps, and inefficiencies in current tooling and operational models.
- Define requirements for SOC, NOC, Enterprise Operations and Disaster Operations environments.
- Recommend a rationalised monitoring platform strategy that improves visibility, performance, security, and reporting.
Network & Addressing Architecture
- Analyse existing network and IP addressing environments, documenting current-state architecture and utilisation.
- Assess capacity, constraints, and future growth requirements.
- Design scalable IPv4 and IPv6 addressing strategies aligned with long-term organisational needs.
- Develop transition approaches that minimise risk and operational disruption.
Key Deliverables
- Current-state architecture and platform assessments
- Business and technical requirements documentation
- Target-state solution and network architectures
- Options papers and recommendation reports
- Implementation and transition roadmaps
- Technical design documents and diagrams
If you are a Solution Architect looking to work on impactful, enterprise-scale initiatives apply now or reach out to ray.stewart@talentinternational.com for a confidential discussion.