In collaboration with Centralized and Enterprise Architecture teams, you will align on solutions, domain boundaries, and high-level architectural principles. You will partner with development teams in Planning, Engineering, Inventory, and Workflow/Orchestration to align HLDs and API definitions, ensuring timely delivery with cross-functional partners. Key responsibilities include:
End-to-End Core Architecture: Architecting end-to-end functionality across core modules (UFM, UWA, SA360/UTP) for key wireline and wireless initiatives.
Workflow Modernization: Leading the modernization of legacy alarm processing, ticketing, and jBPM workflows into scalable, event-driven microservices architectures.
API & Resiliency Standards: Defining blueprint patterns and standards to refactor legacy automations into API-driven workflows with high resiliency, observability, and self-healing.
Development Execution & Code Quality: Leading development teams to ensure solid code implementation, data integrity, traceability, performance, and resiliency in workflow execution.
Executive Leadership & Facilitation: Partnering with Director and VP-level leadership to drive decision-making velocity, facilitate working sessions, and align cross-functional technical teams.
Organizational Change Management: Acting as an effective change agent using stakeholder analysis and structured change management techniques.
Directional Architecture & Governance: Creating architectural enablers and conducting design reviews to align systems with the Directional Architecture, Standard Operating Environment (SOE), and domain boundaries.
Talent Mentorship: Mentoring upcoming architects and development leads in the Service Assurance space.
Cross-Functional Technical Guidance: Providing technical guidance to cross-functional teams in crafting solutions and detailing system and process impacts.
Mission-Critical Domain Support: Supporting mission- and business-critical applications in Network Systems across provisioning and service qualification domains.
Continuous Delivery & Vendor Alignment: Aligning teams to a shared technical direction and partnering with vendors and internal teams to validate assumptions, evaluate options, and build the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
Agile Planning & Solution Definition: Participating in Development Cycle (DC) Planning, System/Solution Demos, Inspect & Adapt events, and exploring high-level solution trade-offs.
Program Execution & Process Optimization: Creating, leading, and executing programs focused on process optimization and technology adoption to maximize business value.
Full-Lifecycle Solution Architecture: Delivering end-to-end solution architecture from definition through go-live across Logical, Technical, and Physical views for new and existing problem spaces.
Frameworks & Schema Standardization: Defining reusable components, common schemas, standards, and tools to bootstrap the Service Qualification team.
Advanced Engineering & AI Innovation: Driving adoption of best software engineering practices and modern technologies (AI, LLM, ARG) to impact the broader product architecture ecosystem.
What we are looking for …
We are seeking an inquisitive, strategic, and data-driven leader with exceptional influencing skills across multi-level organizations and deep expertise in software engineering and architecture concepts.
You'll need to have
Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
Eight or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
Experience in architecting scalable network fault management solutions for alarm processing, correlation, ticketing, and automated workflows across legacy and cutting-edge systems.
Proven success modernizing legacy core network automations and high-volume workflow engines into event-driven architectures without disrupting operations.
Experience in Core Network domain architecture and software engineering, specializing in high-volume process flow modeling and end-to-end product design for complex business environments.
Even better if you have
Master’s Degree in computer science or related field.
Experience in conducting technical workshops on defining inter system communications.
Leading a team.
Skill in translating business requirements in the Core Network domain into technical design documents.
Experience designing and building complex, enterprise-grade Java-based architectural solutions.
Experience in providing solutions / Architecture for Modernization / Migration projects.
Experience developing and optimizing server architectures.
Experience with Java/ J2EE technologies, SpringBoot microservices.
Experience in SQL/NoSQL databases like Oracle, PostgreSQL.
Knowledge on cloud technologies - AWS cloud or docker containers - Kubernetes (K8S).
Experience in conversing/presenting to the executives with IT and non-IT backgrounds.
Experience in using AI tools including Claude Code, CoPilot, etc.
Experience with enterprise orchestration, BPM engines, and multi-system task management.
Experience in legacy-to-modern migrations using Strangler Fig pattern, domain-driven design, and workflow engines (e.g., Camunda, Temporal).
Worked in a large cross-functional team structure.
Experience working in the telecom industry.
Working with vendors and vendor management.
If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.
Where you’ll be working
In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes working from home and a minimum of three days per week in the office, which will be set by your manager. Employees are responsible for maintaining compliance with hybrid work policies.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Verizon is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristics.
Benefits and Compensation
Our benefits are designed to help you move forward in your career, and in areas of your life outside of Verizon. From health and wellness benefit options including: medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability, basic life insurance, supplemental life insurance, AD&D insurance, identity theft protection, pet insurance and group home & auto insurance. We also offer a matched 401(k) savings plan, up to 8 company paid holidays per year and up to 6 personal days per year, paid parental leave, adoption assistance and tuition assistance, plus other incentives, we’ve got you covered with our award-winning total rewards package. Depending on the role, employees have the opportunity to receive compensation in the form of premium pay such as overtime, shift differential, holiday pay, allowances, etc. Newly hired employees receive up to 15 days of vacation per year, which grows with additional service. For part-timers, your coverage will vary as you may be eligible for some of these benefits depending on your individual circumstances.
The salary will vary depending on your location and confirmed job-related skills and experience. This is an incentive based position with the potential to earn more. For part-time roles, your compensation will be adjusted to reflect your hours.
The annual salary range for the location(s) listed on this job requisition based on a full-time schedule is: $137,000.00 - $263,000.00.
