Network Engineering Design Lead

Rate: £700, Inside IR35

Salary: £550 - £700 per annum

Clearance: DV required

If you enjoy designing complex enterprise networks and turning technical thinking into solutions that stand up to real-world operational demands, this is a leadership role where you'll make a genuine difference. Hiring for a reputed client, you'll lead a specialist team of network engineers delivering high-quality network designs for critical services-supporting resilience, security and long-term platform strategy.

What you'll be doing:
* Lead the end-to-end design of network solutions, from high-level direction through to detailed design outputs
* Produce and review both high-level and low-level network designs, ensuring they meet availability, scalability, resilience, security and supportability needs
* Define network architectures and establish design principles, standards, blueprints and reference architectures
* Drive network lifecycle planning, including technology refresh, capacity growth and platform evolution
* Carry out technical assurance and design governance, reviewing designs from engineers, suppliers and third-party partners
* Ensure operational support requirements are built into solutions from the start
* Collaborate closely with solution and security architects to create integrated, end-to-end outcomes
* Lead technical investigations, proof of concepts and technology evaluations

Duration: 6 months

Network Engineering Design Lead
Location: London