Network Architect Principal

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI generative AI cloud and data combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of 22.1 billion.

The Network Architect Principal is a visionary technical leader responsible for designing evolving and governing the organizations global network architecture. This role ensures that all network infrastructures are secure scalable and aligned with business and technology strategies. The ideal candidate possesses deep technical expertise broad architectural vision and the ability to translate business objectives into sophisticated enterprisewide network solutions.

• Develop enterprise-wide network architectures standards and technical roadmaps.
• Provide expert technical leadership and mentorship to engineering and operations teams.
• Design and implement complex network solutions across LAN WAN wireless data centers cloud and hybrid environments.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements for network performance security and scalability.
• Maintain and enforce network architecture standards best practices and compliance requirements.
• Conduct architecture reviews to ensure alignment with design principles and organizational policies.
• Serve as the highest-level escalation point for advanced troubleshooting and network issues.
• Lead ideation and concept design for scalable and reusable network and hardware architectures.
• Collaborate with crossfunctional teamsincluding product sales marketing and technology leadsto define and support the technology roadmap.
• Ensure all network systems comply with regulatory and security frameworks (e.g. NERC/CIP SOX).

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems Electrical Engineering Computer Architecture or related field.
• 10 years of experience in network architecture including 5 years in senior or principal-level roles.
• Outstanding English communication both verbal and non-verbal.
• Background in automotive technology manufacturing (highly preferred).
• Proven experience designing and managing largescale global networks (LAN WAN data center cloud hybrid wireless).
• Expertise in network security SDN and cloud networking (AWS Azure GCP).
• Deep knowledge of routing switching firewalls load balancing VPNs and core network protocols.
• Proficiency with network automation monitoring and observability tools.
• Strong vendor management and procurement experience.
• Demonstrated enterprise-level architecture leadership and mentorship capabilities.
• Strong technical documentation skills.
• Experience working in regulated or compliance-driven environments (e.g. NERC/CIP SOX).
• Excellent troubleshooting skills and ability to resolve complex network issues.