Principal Network Architect

Flagship Pioneering is a bioplatform innovation company that invents and builds platform companies that change the world. We bring together the greatest scientific minds with entrepreneurial company builders and assemble the capital to allow them to take courageous leaps. Those big leaps in human health and sustainability exponentially accelerate scientific progress in areas ranging from cancer detection and treatment to nature-positive agriculture.    

 What sets Flagship apart is our ability to advance biotechnology by uniting life science innovation, company creation, and capital investment under one roof in a way that is largely without precedent. Our scientific founders, entrepreneurial leaders, and professional capital managers are each aligned around an institutionalized process that enables us to innovate and transform for the benefit of people and planet. 

Many of the companies Flagship has founded have addressed humanity’s most urgent challenges: vaccinating billions of people against COVID-19, curing intractable diseases, improving human health, preempting illness, and feeding the world by improving the resiliency and sustainability of agriculture.   

Flagship has been recognized twice on FORTUNE’s “Change the World” list, an annual ranking of companies that have made a positive social and environmental impact through activities that are part of their core business strategies, and has been twice named to Fast Company’s annual list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.  

Position Summary: 

The Principal Network Architect will create foundational architectures, strategic roadmaps, and standards to ensure a secure and scalable network infrastructure organization-wide. This role requires understanding of both business objectives and technical specifications to craft sophisticated network solutions suitable for global implementation. The individual will deliver technical leadership and advisory services throughout the company. Duties range from high-level strategic decisions to day-to-day network escalations. They will spearhead the evaluation and selection of technical solutions that support the organization's growth, innovation goals, and enabling the cutting-edge work of our biotech startups. 

Responsibilities

• Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.
• Create strategies for network infrastructure, establish design standards, and develop corresponding implementation specification.
• Research and understand cutting-edge network technologies, products, and services to offer recommendations for network development and improvements
• Architect, develop, and deploy company LANs, WANs, wireless networks, internet connectivity, third-party access solutions, cloud service integrations, cloud networks (AWS), and VPN configurations to meet high availability standards.
• Collaborate with peer groups, business units, and stakeholders to develop comprehensive project plans and architectural designs.
• Provide technical leadership and support to partner teams, infrastructure teams, and other technology partners within the organization.
• Act as top network support escalation for network operations across environments, handling advanced troubleshooting, maintenance, repair, and integration tasks as needed.
• Ensure all network infrastructure adheres to relevant regulatory requirements and internal security policies, including regular audits and updates. 
• Understanding of infrastructure-as-code principals to lead development of network infrastructure-as-code (IAC) in a continuous integration and continuous deployment environment (CI/CD)

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field OR equivalent years of experience 
• 10+ years of technical experience in networking or IT engineering focused on designing, building, and operating LAN, WAN, Cloud, VPN, WiFi networks 
• 5+ years of technical network leadership experience in a cloud first enterprise 
• 5+ years in an enterprise or similar environment that operates or supports across multiple separate business units or functions

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience dealing with compliance-related regulations like PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, etc. is preferred.
• Advanced Switching/Routing, Security and/or Cloud (AWS) certs.
• At least 3 of those 5 years in an architect or principal engineer role for one or more large, complex networks.
• At least 3 of those 5 years working in an enterprise environment crossing international boundaries
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Flagship Pioneering and our ecosystem companies are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

At Flagship, we recognize there is no perfect candidate. If you have some of the experience listed above but not all, please apply anyway. Experience comes in many forms, skills are transferable, and passion goes a long way. We are dedicated to building diverse and inclusive teams and look forward to learning more about your unique background.

Recruitment & Staffing Agencies:  Flagship Pioneering and its affiliated Flagship Lab companies (collectively, “FSP”) do not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates.  The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to FSP or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Flagship Pioneering’s internal Talent Acquisition team.   Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of FSP, and FSP will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.

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