Network Architect

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio

Your role and responsibilities

The Network Architect will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the network architecture for IBM Consulting's Client . This role involves creating custom-designed connectivity solutions tailored to the unique requirements of IBM and its clients, ensuring fast, resilient, secure, and cost-effective client connectivity.

Job responsibilities include:

• Design and implement network solutions
• Ensure fast, resilient, secured, and cost-effective client connectivity with built-in features of automation, network virtualization, and real-time threat monitoring.
• Provide custom-designed connectivity solutions to cater to the distinct needs of both IBM and the client.
• Manage the lifecycle of network solutions, including onboarding, steady-state management, and deboarding.
• Participating in both client and internal stakeholder meetings to gather information regarding client requirements as part of an opportunity pursuit plan

Required education

None

Required technical and professional expertise

• Expertise in routing, switching, load balancing, VPN, Data Center LAN, Data Center WAN, DNS and network segmentation
• Familiarity with Network Automation and monitoring tooling
• In-depth understanding of network security principles
• Proven experience in network architecture and design, preferably in a consulting environment.
• Ability to provide custom-designed network solutions tailored to client needs.
• Proven track record in network architecture / engineering and network delivery on-prem and integration with Cloud solutions in a complex large scale programme

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with the Team and client representatives.
• Experience in supplier management and contract negotiations
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, team leadership and communications skills

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM's consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients' businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you'll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you'll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

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ABOUT IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we're also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it's time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM wants you to bring your whole self to work and for you this might mean the ability to work flexibly. If you are interested in a flexible working pattern, please talk to our recruitment team to find out if this is possible in the current working environment.

Client-provided location(s): London, United Kingdom

Job ID: IBM-60189

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2025-09-30T18:49:11