Principal Architect III - Network Innovation

Overview

Are you passionate about shaping the future of enterprise technology at Spectrum? As a Principal Architect III at Spectrum, you will lead an enterprise-wide architecture program, guiding cross-functional teams to build innovative solutions that drive critical business outcomes. This is your chance to set strategic technology direction, collaborate with diverse stakeholders, and influence the design and integration of systems across applications, networks and infrastructure that empower Spectrum’s vision for growth and transformation.

Your proven ability to execute proofs-of-concept for new architectures and platforms will contribute to your work on containerized and virtualized workload orchestration across hybrid environments for performance optimization, scalability, and observability (metrics, tracing, logging).

• Office environment
• Schedule:
  
  Full time
• This position is eligible to work in a hybrid work model (combination of in-office and remote days)

• Responsibilities
  • Provide technical direction and solutions to architectural, development, and operational teams on assigned projects
  • Lead architect teams to formulate and review new software/hardware platforms
  • Evaluate complex designs and resolve issues within internal and external systems to advance business projects
  • Design and support application systems and infrastructure within assigned technology domains
  • Develop architectural frameworks and enterprise solutions for system enhancements and multi-platform integration challenges
  • Collaborate with developers and business teams to create application roadmaps, align development plans, and resolve integration and capability gaps
  • Formulate criteria, technologies, and use cases for and execute proofs-of-concept for new approaches and platforms
  • Assess interfaces and interoperability among systems to evaluate impacts of changes and integrations
  • Shape technology strategy and establish best practices for code design, API contracts, version control and automation to drive innovation
  • Lead enterprise prioritization planning with executive management and provide technical guidance and mentorship to project teams
  • Review project code compliance with best practices in collaboration with development managers
  • Offer insights into project costs during the annual budgeting process

• Education
  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Experience
  • 10+ years of system installation, configuration, operations, software development, and/or database development experience
• Network Architecture & Engineering
  • Enterprise and service provider network design (LAN/WAN, data center, cloud, and edge)
  • Deep expertise in IP routing (BGP, OSPF, IS-IS), MPLS, and software-defined networking (SDN/NFV)
  • Strong knowledge of telecom networking standards (DOCSIS, Ethernet, 5G, Wi-Fi, optical)
  • Network security architecture, including NGFW, Zero Trust, and segmentation strategies
  • High-availability design, load balancing, and fault-tolerant architectures
• Software Development & Systems Engineering
  • Proficient in modern development languages (Python, Go, Java, C++)
  • API and microservices design (REST, gRPC, Graph
    
    QL) with strong versioning and contract practices
  • Expertise in Dev Ops, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible)
  • Strong background in cloud-native platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, serverless)
  • Experience with distributed systems, big data, and AI/ML integration
• Cross-Disciplinary Technical Skills
  • End-to-end system integration across applications, networks, and infrastructure
  • Containerized and virtualized workload orchestration across hybrid environments
  • Performance optimization, scalability, and observability (metrics, tracing, logging)
  • Proven ability to execute proofs-of-concept for new architectures and platforms
• Skills
  • Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
  • Ability to listen and marry multiple points of view from a technical perspective to a business perspective, synthesize against goals for recommendations, maintain good working relationships to influence roadmaps with business owners and…