Vice President / Director, Network Solution Architect Lead

• Responsible for network transformation strategy and roadmap for regional network standard, solution, configuration and automation.
• Evaluate new network solutions beneficial to the bank, developing network architecture and design suitable for deployment into production environment.
• Leads the team of network solution architect and delivery experts to plan and deploy regional standardization in accordance with the specifications and service levels of business and/or system requirements.
• Leads solutions and projects including designing, implementing, and supporting network solutions involving, but not limited to Routing & Switching, SD WAN, Firewalls, secure Internet Gateway, LAN/WLAN, SASE and automations technologies.
• Collaborate with server and application teams in troubleshooting to identify root cause and for the completion of network security initiatives.
• Support major incidents or changes when there is escalation from operation team, working with the related stakeholders and takes corrective/preventive actions.
• Work with respective countries team members on the review of network architecture and design, troubleshooting, as well as to work on network and security infrastructure domain.
• Create and update technical standards and architecture specifications.
• Provide network architecture reviews, assessments and recommend remediation/enhancement to improve operational efficiency and compliant to existing IT policies and governance.
• Prepare and present technical documentations. Ensure that the technical settings comply with company policy and regulatory requirements and work with stakeholders to align infrastructure direction.
• Plan, communicate and coordinate with external vendors to ensure systems and applications are delivered in accordance with SLA.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT or closely related field with 8+ years of total experience in Network Operations, Implementation and Design with min. 5+ years of experience in Solution Planning, Design, Architecture, and Implementation.
• Strong systems engineering skills with Network and Firewall architecture.
• Experienced in leading team of network engineers in corporate environment, preferably FSIs.
• Industrial certification: CCDE, CCIE (R&S or Security), CCNP or CCNSP, and ITIL.
• In-depth technical experience and proficiency in deploying network system(s) implementation for large enterprise and data center routing switching environments.
• Hands-on experience in implementation and setup of high-availability, multi-layer datacenter networks, Internet Gateway, VPN, ISE
• Experienced in Cisco Router and Switches (ASR, ISR, Nexus, Catalyst), advance IP routing and switching technologies, particularly BGP, SDWAN, OSPF, PBR, QOS, VRRP, VPC and VXLAN.
• Experienced in Firewalls (Cisco, Checkpoint, Fortinet and Palo Alto), Load balancers (F5).
• Proficient in technical report writing and documentation.
• Knowledge and experience in IT Service Management (ITSM) would be valuable.
• Prior working experience as an IT professional in banking or financial institution is an advantage. Knowledge of industry technology trends
• Knowledge of IT security, Risk Management and Security Controls