Network Architect - Platform Infrastructure-DC Connect

The Opportunity

At EY, network services are foundational to secure, resilient, and high-performing technology operations. As the firm modernizes infrastructure, strengthens cyber resilience, expands cloud connectivity, and improves global platform reliability, EY requires a senior product leader to provide end-to-end ownership of the global datacenter dataroom network product portfolio.

The Senior Network Product Manager will own network strategy, roadmap, lifecycle, standards, observability, service health, and vendor governance. This role requires deep technical credibility across Cisco and Arista route/switch platforms, VXLAN, L2/L3 networking, WAN, routing protocols, and network management tools, combined with practical product leadership and executive communication skills.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy and Ownership

• Own the global Network Product strategy, roadmap, standards, and lifecycle management.
• Define multi-year modernization plans for network resiliency, security, automation, supportability, and simplification.
• Align network capabilities with business priorities, cloud strategy, regulatory obligations, cyber requirements, and operational needs.
• Define product KPIs, OKRs, service levels, technical debt plans, capacity trends, and platform health metrics.
• Partner with engineering, operations, security, procurement, and finance teams to support roadmap execution and investment planning.

Technical Product Leadership

• Act as the senior product owner and technical authority for enterprise route/switch networking across data centers, data rooms, campus, WAN, and cloud connectivity.
• Provide product direction for Cisco Catalyst 9000, Cisco Nexus, Arista switching, routers, load balancer connectivity, DCI, and network segmentation patterns.
• Guide architecture standards for VXLAN EVPN fabrics, L2/L3 designs, routing domains, high availability, resiliency, and failover patterns.
• Ensure network standards account for OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, route redistribution, multicast, QoS, network segmentation, and secure connectivity requirements.
• Review product risks, design gaps, lifecycle exposure, and operational friction points across the global network estate.

Network Observability and Intelligence

• Own product strategy for  syslog, telemetry, packet visibility, network performance monitoring, configuration compliance, and network maps.
• Improve visibility into device health, topology, routing state, capacity, configuration drift, fault domains, and service impact.
• Drive adoption of proactive monitoring, event correlation, root cause analysis, and automated runbook capabilities.
• Establish network health dashboards used by operations, engineering, security, and leadership teams.

Lifecycle, Risk, and Compliance

• Maintain product lifecycle plans for hardware, software, firmware, support contracts, end-of-life, end-of-support, and vulnerability exposure.
• Partner with cyber, risk, and operations teams to prioritize patching, remediation, modernization, and compensating controls.
• Ensure audit-ready documentation, ownership clarity, design traceability, and standard evidence for critical network products.
• Drive technical debt reduction and simplify non-standard designs, legacy connectivity, and unsupported platforms.

Vendor and Partner Governance

• Govern network delivery from strategic partners, managed service providers, telecom carriers, Cisco, Arista, and network tooling vendors.
• Review vendor designs, operational changes, implementation plans, support performance, and service quality against product standards.
• Hold partners accountable for resiliency, documentation, standards compliance, operational readiness, and measurable outcomes.
• Influence sourcing, contract renewals, support models, licensing, and platform investment decisions.

Automation and Continuous Improvement

• Champion network automation, configuration standardization, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Drive use of APIs, Ansible, Git-based network configuration, telemetry, and orchestration to reduce manual effort and improve control.
• Promote repeatable deployment models, self-service capabilities, automated compliance checks, and self-healing operations where practical.

Core Technical Expertise

Domain

Expected Knowledge

Cisco Platforms

Cisco Catalyst 9000, Cisco Nexus, IOS-XE, NX-OS, route/switch, HA patterns, software lifecycle, Smart Licensing, TAC engagement

Arista Platforms

Arista data center and campus switching, EOS, CloudVision concepts, route/switch operations, lifecycle and support models

Network Architecture

L2/L3 enterprise networking, data center fabrics, VXLAN EVPN, DCI, LAN, campus, WAN, SD-WAN, cloud connectivity

Routing and Switching

OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, route redistribution, STP, VLANs, VRFs, multicast, QoS, HSRP/VRRP, ECMP, segmentation

Observability and Tools

NetBrain, SNMP, syslog, telemetry, packet capture, ThousandEyes, SolarWinds, LogicMonitor,  Elastic.

Automation and Governance

Ansible, APIs, templates, configuration compliance, drift monitoring, Git-based workflows, policy-based controls, runbook automation

Risk and Lifecycle

EOL/EOS, vulnerability remediation, firmware/software upgrades, capacity planning, resiliency testing, audit evidence, documentation standards

Skills and Experience

• 14+ years of progressive enterprise networking experience in large, global, highly regulated environments.
• 5+ years of product ownership, platform ownership, architecture leadership, or senior network engineering leadership experience.
• Proven experience managing network product roadmaps, lifecycle plans, budgets, vendor governance, and operational performance.
• Deep hands-on understanding of Cisco and Arista route/switch technologies with ability to challenge designs and guide standards.
• Strong understanding of LAN, WAN, data center, cloud connectivity, routing protocols, network segmentation, and resiliency engineering.
• Experience building product health dashboards, service metrics, technical debt plans, and leadership-facing executive updates.
• Ability to communicate clearly with executives, technical teams, security stakeholders, procurement, finance, and vendor partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure, CCNP Enterprise, Arista ACE, cloud networking, or equivalent practical expertise.
• Experience with  network automation, telemetry, NPM/NCM tooling, and configuration compliance platforms.
• Experience operating global network services across multiple data centers, regions, business-critical sites, and cloud providers.
• ITIL, product management, Agile, or service ownership experience.
• Experience modernizing legacy network estates and reducing vendor dependency through standards, automation, and better documentation.

Success Measures

• Clear product roadmap with measurable delivery milestones and funding alignment.
• Reduced lifecycle risk across network hardware, software, firmware, and support contracts.
• Improved network availability, observability, configurati