Network Engineering Manager

The Manager Network Engineering directs the development and ongoing maintenance of critical IT platforms, processes, and network infrastructure. Leads high performing teams that deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions. Responsible for overseeing day to day operations, resource allocation, project execution, and performance management. Contributes to strategic IT decisions that align capabilities with long term organizational objectives. Collaborates closely with cross-functional stakeholders to define standards, manage budgets, and drive process improvement. Ensures compliance, security, and regulatory requirements are met. Fosters a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and accountability within the team. Responsibilities and Duties: Direct and oversee infrastructure developments and maintenance to ensure business requirements can be met. Lead definition of architectural standards for all technology services and components (applications, data, integration, technology, security, business). Present business and IT leaders with signature-ready recommendations for adjusting policies and projects to achieve target business outcomes that capitalize on relevant digital disruptions. Document the most complex "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability to record accurately the change required. Develop a strategic architecture plan, ensuring that data features are prioritized appropriately, estimates are reliable, benefits can be realized, and design activities are proactively monitored and tracked to meet planned time frames and the overall architecture plan. Elicit the most-complex business requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals. Communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team; explain the relationship to the broader organization's mission, vision, and values; motivate people to commit to these and to do extraordinary things to achieve local business goals. Develop straightforward business cases to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment. Lead in detecting and analyzing security incidents, including attacks, breaches, and identified vulnerabilities, and remediate any security gaps in line with the security incident management procedure. Manage and report on the performance of a substantial, diverse team; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports or project/account team members and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of team/personal objectives. Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions, including continuing professional development specified by professional or regulatory institutions, to build their professional capabilities. Provide informal training or coaching to others throughout the organization in own area of expertise to enable others to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Develop and/or deliver budget plans with guidance from senior colleagues.

Required: Conduct an enterprise readiness assessment to determine the organization's readiness for change. Express user needs in terms of business requirements, identify current capability of the business to deliver, conduct build or buy analyses, and recommend preferred approach. Conduct gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy. Design architectures, incorporating system/ service requirements. Acquire, organize, protect and process data in order to fulfill business objectives. Review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate