About the role
Location: Wangen b. Dübendorf
When: 1 October 2026 or upon availability
Your mission:
As a Network Architect, you will drive the evolution of Skyguide’s IT and network infrastructure, shaping a secure, resilient, and future-ready connectivity landscape. You act as a trusted advisor to engineering teams, management, and business stakeholders, guiding the adoption of innovative networking technologies and architectural best practices. As part of the Platform team and the broader architecture community, you define and own reusable infrastructure building blocks, enabling scalable, reliable, and secure network services across all products. You bring vision, technical excellence, and a collaborative mindset to ensure our network architecture meets today’s operational demands while preparing for tomorrow’s challenges.
Your tasks:
Define, design, and own network architecture building blocks, ensuring they are scalable, reusable, and aligned with enterprise strategy
Drive the evolution of the network landscape, incorporating modern networking paradigms
Provide architectural guidance and support to engineering teams in adopting advanced networking technologies and solutions
Advise management and business stakeholders on networking technology trends, risks, and strategic opportunities
Ensure network security is embedded by design, aligned with relevant frameworks, standards, and best practices
Collaborate across domains (compute, storage, cloud, and applications) to ensure end-to-end system integration
Develop and maintain architectural documentation, standards, and models
What we are looking for:
Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
Proven experience in network architecture within complex, high-reliability or safety-critical environments
Experience in architecture documentation and modelling practices
Routing & Switching: advanced knowledge of enterprise vendors like Cisco, Juniper or Extreme Networks
Communication: You adapt your communication style to the context and stakeholders and actively ask for information through relevant questions and active listening
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