Architect

This role is responsible for defining architectural vision and solution architecture for AI, automation, and orchestration capabilities that support the Network AI and Agentic Transformation across Network Services. Key responsibilities include describing solution intent and operating context, evaluating system impacts, determining primary systems, subsystems, and interfaces, and helping define the architectural runway needed to support new use-cases, reusable capabilities, and evolving delivery priorities. This role is intentionally designed to operate flexibly across the Research & Strategy, Engineering & Delivery, and Deterministic Automation pillars, allowing the individual to contribute where demand is highest based on organizational need and candidate strengths. The individual in this role ensures solutions are fit for purpose and use by working across business, engineering, architecture, platform, and operations stakeholders, while helping shape patterns for AI-enabled workflows, agentic capabilities, integration architecture, and deterministic execution models that align to enterprise strategy, governance, and delivery constraints. • Strong experience defining solution architecture and architectural vision for complex technology capabilities spanning application, data, integration, and automation domains. • Ability to operate flexibly across strategy, architecture, engineering, and automation domains, supporting whichever pillar has the greatest need at a given time. • Experience shaping architectural approaches for AI-enabled use-cases, workflow orchestration, tool integration, and deterministic automation execution patterns. • Strong understanding of how to evaluate system impacts, interfaces, dependencies, and non-functional requirements for complex enterprise solutions. • Ability to translate evolving business and transformation objectives into architectural direction, implementation pathways, and reusable technical patterns. • Experience facilitating solution-driven discussions and helping stakeholders move from conceptual ideas to practical, scalable architectural choices. • Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture standards, technology governance, security expectations, and controlled delivery requirements in a regulated environment. • Familiarity with AI and agentic solution concepts, including context grounding, tool interaction patterns, model-enabled workflows, orchestration approaches, and guardrail considerations. • Strong understanding of deterministic automation concepts, including workflow sequencing, approval points, rollback considerations, exception handling, and separation of decision and execution layers. • Experience working across architecture, engineering, product, delivery, and operations stakeholders to establish alignment on design intent and delivery feasibility. • Ability to define non-functional requirements covering security, performance, resiliency, scalability, maintainability, supportability, and observability. • Experience contributing to reusable reference patterns, technical standards, templates, and design guidance that improve consistency and speed across teams. • Strong analytical thinking and architectural judgment, including the ability to compare solution options and guide tradeoff decisions. • Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain architecture, constraints, risks, and implementation implications clearly to technical and non-technical audiences. • Experience working in a fast-paced and complex global environment with evolving priorities, interdependencies, and incremental delivery expectations. • Define architectural vision and solution intent for capabilities supporting the Network AI and Agentic Transformation across strategy, engineering, and deterministic automation needs. • Work across business and technology stakeholders to shape architecture for AI-enabled use-cases, orchestration patterns, integration capabilities, and deterministic automation solutions. • Evaluate system impacts, interfaces, dependencies, and architectural implications of new use-cases, platform capabilities, and delivery approaches. • Lead rapid shaping of high-level architecture with detail added iteratively as business requirements, technical options, and implementation constraints emerge. • Ensure architecture is flexible, modular, and designed to adapt to changing use-case priorities, new AI capabilities, and shifting transformation demand across pillars. • Help define reusable architectural patterns, templates, and design guidance that improve consistency across AI delivery, orchestration, and deterministic automation implementations. • Partner with engineering and delivery teams to clarify architecture, support implementation planning, and resolve architectural impediments throughout execution. • Contribute to experimentation and strategic evaluation of emerging capabilities by helping assess architectural fit, enterprise alignment, and practical adoption pathways. • Define and communicate non-functional requirements and architectural guardrails to ensure solutions are secure, resilient, scalable, supportable, and compliant with enterprise standards. • Support design reviews and architectural assessments to ensure proposed solutions are fit for purpose and aligned to approved standards and patterns. • Provide solution options and tradeoff analysis to stakeholders when architectural, operational, or delivery constraints affect implementation direction. • Work flexibly across Research & Strategy, Engineering & Delivery, and Deterministic Automation priorities, contributing architectural leadership wherever transformation demand is highest. • Educate team members on architectural practices, standardization strategies, reusable patterns, and best practices that support innovative but controlled solution delivery.