Within the Network Business Division( NBD) of ALE (Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise), under the management of the Wireless and Platform business unit leader, the Lead Software Architect will have the responsibility to lead the Architect team focused on WLAN and LAN Network platform management. The candidate should be :

She/he is an expert at network management principles (WLAN and LAN Network Management) and best practices, solution design, design architecture, emerging technologies, cross platform troubleshooting techniques. The role represents and champions the core values of the organization and encourages collaboration across all teams -CTO / R&D / Validation. The role creates proposals and recommends solutions for approval and reviews technical designs to ensure alignment with the best network management architecture practices/principals and company technology vision. She/he is responsible for promoting, enforcing, and documenting solution decisions across impacted programs. Lead Architect is a senior technology leader in the organization and contributes at the highest levels for technology decisions, selections, and strategy.

A successful Lead Architect will maintain proficiency in the technology stack that directly applies to the suite of products created by ALE. It is required that the Lead software architect remain up to date on the latest technologies in Network Management domain, latest architectures and architectural styles, best-of-breed components/tools for developing/validating a scalable architecture, to implement a successful and functional product. The Lead Architect will share technical concepts with other Architects and Lead engineers with ease, allowing the team to develop intuitive software that meets and exceeds the needs of ALE.

The Lead Architect will work closely with the Product Line Managers to prioritize features and enhancements for upcoming releases. The candidate will engage leadership to move our products forward through defined goals and milestones. As the Lead Architect grows with the company, their depth and breadth of understanding of our various software must grow with them. Maintaining this understanding is necessary to ensure that new enhancements consider the full product’s functionality. With this knowledge, they will be able to work with Development Leads and Managers to resolve technically blocking situations during development and validation phases. This knowledge will also help them identify problems within ALE software systems and propose solutions.

The Lead Architect will actively seek ways to achieve cross-leveraging of ALE products, to build an ecosystem that solves business problems for our customers. The individual should demonstrate resourcefulness and troubleshooting aptitude, as well have a strong attention to detail. The individual should drive product excellence by helping teams define and build products that generate measurable value.

They should work with other cross functional engineering teams and partner teams to define the technical specifications and API from each party to achieve the overall solution, hold architecture discussions with them and arrive at mutually beneficial decisions. They should coordinate with product and project management to provide an understanding of the technical feasibility of new roadmap items, assist in new release planning and effort estimations.

The Lead Architect will proactively identify risks and communicate them clearly to the relevant stakeholders, and help plan for success through mitigation options. The individual will be the technical voice for communications with customers and Sales teams.

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