Network Platform Architect

Siemens Energy

Siemens Energy and Siemens Gamesa are becoming Omterra. "We energize society" by supporting our customers to make the transition to a more sustainable world, based on innovative technologies and our ability to turn ideas into reality. With nearly 100,000 employees around the world, we shape the energy systems of today and tomorrow.

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Network Platform Architect

About the Role

Job ID

305865

Location

Portugal

Lisboa

Amadora

Remote vs. Office

Hybrid (Remote/Office)

Company

Siemens Energy Unipessoal Lda.

Organization

EVP Global Functions

Business Unit

Digital Core

Full / Part time

Full-time

Experience Level

Professional / Experienced

A Snapshot of Your Day Join the innovative Siemens Digital Core team at our Lisbon or Porto offices as a Network Platform Architect - at our Lisbon or Porto offices - where you will play a pivotal role in transforming global network services into standardized, consumable, and automation-ready platforms. Imagine defining a reference architecture for campus or cloud connectivity, reviewing exceptions with domain architects, and translating strategic roadmaps into reusable patterns. You will ensure that new designs are operable through code and telemetry, connecting business outcomes with architectural and engineering realities. By working across Connectivity, Secure Access, and Network Reliability, you will create the guardrails that empower product and service owners to innovate rapidly while minimizing technical debt and operational risk.

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Define the target architecture and reference patterns for global connectivity, secure access, and network reliability platforms.
• Turn strategy into modular platform capabilities and standardized blueprints for various use cases.
• Lead architecture governance for standards, exceptions, and technology lifecycle in collaboration with domain authorities.
• Ensure architectural designs are automation-ready through APIs, declarative configuration, and telemetry.
• Evaluate emerging technologies for AI-era networking and translate them into pragmatic adoption paths.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on sustainable technology and platform decisions.

What You Bring

• A university degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Telecommunications, Engineering, or a comparable discipline.
• Extensive experience in enterprise network architecture across multiple domains, including campus and WAN.
• Strong knowledge of modern network architectures such as SD-WAN, SASE, and hybrid-cloud connectivity.
• Experience creating reference architectures, standards, and technology lifecycle decisions in large environments.
• A platform mindset, integrating vendor products and internal capabilities into reusable platforms.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills to align various stakeholders on technology decisions.

About the Team

Network Services is responsible for designing, delivering, and continuously evolving Siemens Energy’s global connectivity and network security capabilities. We are transitioning from a traditional service-oriented model to platform delivery, emphasizing clear ownership, reusable standards, automation, observability, and AI-enabled operations. Our teams collaborate across campus, wide-area, cloud, and data-center connectivity, core IP services, secure access, segmentation, and network reliability, working closely with Cybersecurity, Digital Workplace, Cloud, Data Center, OT, and external suppliers.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. We meet growing energy demand while supporting the transformation toward a more sustainable energy world. Our global teams combine deep engineering experience with digital technologies to deliver reliable, secure, and affordable energy solutions. We value people who challenge established approaches, build trusted partnerships, and help turn technology into measurable business outcomes. Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity, we generate power. We run on inclusion, and our combined creative energy is motivated by colleagues from many nationalities, backgrounds, and perspectives. Siemens Energy celebrates character and does not discriminate based on differences. We welcome applications from people who share our commitment to an inclusive workplace.

Rewards/Benefits

• Competitive salary and meal allowance
• Fair compensation for international work
• Health insurance coverage
• Remote work permitted within the country
• Additional 5 “Pontes” days off and Birthday off if it falls on a weekday, when not abroad (only applies for Portugal)
• Among others

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