[Hiring] Senior Lead Architect @Lumen Technologies

Role Description

The Senior Lead Architect is trusted to think boldly, take ownership, and bring fresh ideas to problems that shape the future of AI-ready connectivity. In this high-accountability environment, innovation is not just encouraged—it is expected. Leaders provide clarity, teammates offer trust, and every contribution has a visible impact on customers, partners, and the industry.

• Optical Strategist: translate emerging technologies into deployable architecture, standards, vendor requirements, and operational models.
• Architectural Recommendations: include technology roadmaps, reference architectures, lifecycle planning, and interoperability requirements.
• Visionary: Envision future optical network over a 1–3-year horizon and turn them into reality.
• Original Mindset: Think, how can we do this?
• AI-Enabled Innovation: Use AI tools to accelerate research, network analytics, documentation, automation, modeling, and decision support.
• Standard Bodies Participation: Engage in standard bodies such as an MSA, IEEE, OIF, Open ROADM, etc., to drive Lumen’s initiatives.
• Data Mining and Trending Analytics: Utilize strong data mining skills to extract network data and present current and trending demands.
• Financial Model Derivation: Fluent in TCO, ROI, NPV, sensitivity analysis, marginal cost, long-run average cost, capital efficiency, and demand-based forecasting.
• Business Case Development: Develop business cases to support architectural designs and decisions.
• Automation Vision: Create an automation vision for the Optical Product line.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in electrical, optical, or Telecommunication engineering, or 5-7+ years of equivalent experience and training.
• Master of Business Administration, or 5-7+ years of equivalent experience in financial modeling.
• Fluent in DWDM, Coherent Optics, ROADM/Open Line Systems, Optical performance modeling, and network resiliency.
• Strong analytical approach to solving problems.
• Experience communicating technical solutions from C-Level to entry level employees.
• Has been the technical subject matter expert that has successfully led a new Product introduction into the production network.
• Strong data extraction and analytic skills using tools like SQL and Power BI.

Requirements

• Knowledge in the following areas: Quantum Encryption, HCF/MCF, APIs.
• Participation in at least one standard body.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing.