MGR SYSTEMS ARCHITECT - INDIA

MGR SYSTEMS ARCHITECT - INDIA

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MGR SYSTEMS ARCHITECT - INDIA

BANGALORE, IND

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Job description

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Job ID

343990

Date posted

10/23/2026

Application Deadline

10/29/2026

Lumen is the trusted network for the AI‑powered world, connecting people, data, and applications through our expansive fiber network and connected ecosystem. We enable secure, high‑performance connectivity across cloud, edge, and AI workloads for enterprises, governments, and communities.

At Lumen, you’ll work on infrastructure customers rely on today and build for what’s next, where performance, security, and resilience matter.

This is a high accountability environment where bold ideas drive real innovation for our customers, partners, and industry. The work is challenging, expectations are clear, and trust is built into how we operate. If you’re ready to take ownership, deliver meaningful impact, and help shape the future of AI‑ready connectivity, join us today.

The Role

Team Management: Mgr. Systems Architects manage a team of 6 to 10 Sr. system architects, lead architects, and associate managers, assigning them to the right Agile Release Trains (ARTs). Guidance and Mentorship: They guide and enable the team to deliver designs efficiently, mentor reportees, and ensure they contribute towards achieving business goals and managing technical debt. Architectural Oversight: They oversee system design and roadmap, drive architectural initiatives, identify opportunities for optimization, and ensure designs adhere to Lumen Enterprise IT guidelines. Coordination Across ARTs: Mgr. Systems Architects ensure technology alignments across ARTs, confirm capabilities meet Definition of Ready (DoR), and review estimates and critical features by working with other architects. Production Performance and Stability: They maintain full awareness of application performance in production environments, participate in SWAT calls to address stability issues, and help document root causes. Engagement and Collaboration: They engage with system architects, outside vendors, and various teams to review and ensure the success of designs, and participate in Continuous Exploration processes.

The Main Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 6 to 10 Sr. system architects / lead architects / associate mgr system architects and assign to right ARTs.
• Guide and enable the team to deliver designs efficiently
• Enable system architects in the team to own and contribute towards achieving business goals and technical debt.
• Understand overall system design and roadmap
• Drive architectural initiatives and identify opportunities for optimization
• Oversee, mentor and guide reportees.
• Identify areas where POCs are required and assign to reportees as appropriate and track the same to completion.
• Mgr System Architects manage reportees working across ARTs.
• Ensure technology alignments across ARTs; align teams of multiple ARTs to a shared technical direction by working with respective ART System architects
• Confirm Capability meets Definition of Ready (DoR) before approving for multiple ARTs
• Attend and participate in Mass Markets Architecture Review Boards
• Review Capability estimates by working closely with other system architects across ARTs.
• Ensure ART system designs adhere to Lumen Enterprise IT roadmap, guidelines, principles
• Review critical enabler Features and NFRs created by ART architects
• Engage with other system architects and establish an integrated technical design
• Engage with outside vendors to ensure design success
• Engage system architects to review designs and ensure complete end to end success (ie. Omni channel, flow through, etc.)
• Actively participate in the Continuous Exploration (keeping up with the industry) process as part of the Continuous Delivery Pipeline, especially with Enabler Epics
• Collaborate with their application/service development team, Load and Performance team, chaos engineering team, SRE SPOC etc.
• Have full awareness of application/service performance in production environment, upstream / downstream applications, database performance characteristics etc.
• Participate in Proactive / Reactive SWAT calls to address production stability issues, help teams on identifying and documenting accurate root cause of issues.
• Review ART technical enabler Feature content
• Review ART environment performance, stability, and scalability targets
• Review critical nonfunctional requirements. Provide inputs based on production stability, performance