Sr Principal Architect, IT Network Infrastructure

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

• This job is a member of the Information Technology Team within the Information Technology Division.
• Lead and oversee the design, integration, and governance of network technologies across the enterprise, partnering with architecture and business teams to ensure technical solutions meet performance, scalability, and business alignment objectives.
• The Sr Principal Architect, IT Network Infrastructure Network Architect will be part of the Global Network Delivery organization, working in a team of engineers and architects focused on hardware, software, systems level research, and architecture aspects of next generation networks.
• As a leader in the organization, he or she provide enterprise level architecture including vision, strategy, problem anticipation, and problem solving for the Information Technology function
• Anticipates IT industry directions as they relate to future architecture needs and project solutions. Remains continuously aware of business, technical, applications, information management, access, and infrastructure issues and acts as a consultant to aid in the development of creative solutions.
  Will have extensive subject matter expertise in network infrastructure technologies and the ability to provide actionable guidance to all teams across the organization.

What you'll do

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

• Create, design, and document visions, standards, policies, patterns, architectures, and roadmaps for Network Route/Switch Infrastructure, Network Security (firewall technologies) across all on premise locations and Cloud environments.
• Architect, design, and lead the implementation of global enterprise-level solutions across diverse areas of network infrastructure. This includes developing scalable and resilient systems that support voice and data communications, user access and authentication, traffic routing and optimization, monitoring and analytics, and integration with business-critical platforms. Solutions are aligned with strategic business objectives and ensure operational efficiency, security, and high availability across the global network.
• Senior experience working with and integrating to various Cloud providers, i.e…Azure, AWS, IBM, etc…mediums such as Express Route, VPC, Direct Connect, Transit VPC; leveraging SDWAN for agnostic transport mediums.
• Create detailed LAN/WAN designs specifying physical and logical solution components, inter-system dependencies, and network infrastructure elements
• Foster extensive enterprise-wide collaboration to exploit our competitive advantage through leadership for IT solutions architecture
• Integrate application architecture, emerging technologies and develop solutions that help drive complexity reduction
• Provide input for ongoing capacity and lifecycle management of all network infrastructure components to reduce potential security vulnerabilities and prevent degradation of services
• Maintain holistic understanding of several technologies and ability to troubleshoot a solution across an entire architecture in a multi-vendor environment with intricate integrations to internal and external dependent systems
• Maintain a strong knowledge of the I.T. architecture stack and global network systems and landscape.
• Drive hardware and software architecture, and prototype evaluation with a concentration on Global Network LAN/WAN Infrastructure Architecture
• Transform the organization by leveraging and enabling automation within the corporate infrastructure, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Over 7+ years of progressive experience in network architecture across datacenter and remote engineering, with expertise spanning telecom, WAN, and network management tools.
• Over 10 years of progressive experience with current and emerging networking and collaboration technologies, with a strong track record of staying up to date with the latest industry innovations and best practices.
• Extensive experience architecting large-scale, complex enterprise networks, with a focus on scalability, resiliency, and high availability.
• Must be proficient at the techniques that go into the formulation of architectures, including requirements discovery and analysis, application of abstraction, formulation of solution context, solution alternatives identification and assessment, technology selection, and architectural configuration
• Must be proficient in exercising leadership which requires the ability to accept responsibility for success of the architecture of a project, coordinate resources that are often not directly under their control, and provide support necessary to ensure overall success
• Must have applied knowledge in the engagement of complex projects, including efforts that require cross-organizational/vendor coordination
• Demonstrated expertise of how to apply architectural thinking to mission, strategy, and vision in innovative ways that deliver positive impact and results to the business
• Must be able to evaluate the relevance and currency of IT and Network implementations and architectures in a changing business environment within the context of enterprise and technology governance
  Present innovative forward thinking concepts and technology to improve business processes and increase topline revenue and profitability.

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Deep technical expertise in network infrastructure, including VoIP/IP telephony, global routing and switching architectures, and cloud integration. Proven ability to design, implement, and maintain complex, enterprise-grade communication and networking solutions across large, geographically distributed environments.
• Expert-level knowledge of dynamic routing protocols (BGP, OSPF) and anycast, with hands-on experience designing and implementing advanced routing techniques for large-scale, highly available networks.
• Technical knowledge of SDWAN, MPLS, VXLAN, Cloud networking, and systems interconnectivity
• Demonstrated expertise in SIP architecture integration with both customized and COTS solutions, coupled with deep experience in VoIP networking and strong technical proficiency in designing and supporting LAN/WAN architectures
• Demonstrated SIP Architecture integration experience with customized and COTS solutions
• Willingness to interact with senior management and influence decision makers, embraces ambiguity and enables clarity.
• Strong ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical leaders, translating issues into clear, actionable insights to support informed decision-making.
• Skilled in producing comprehensive architecture documentation and detailed design drawings, as well as developing runbooks to support Day 2 operations and ongoing network reliability.

What you'll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

Feel free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.