Enterprise Network Architect

Division:Eskenazi Health

Sub-Division: Hospital

Req ID: 23333

Schedule: Full Time

Shift: Varied

Eskenazi Health serves as the public hospital division of the Health & Hospital Corporation of Marion County. Physicians provide a comprehensive range of primary and specialty care services at the 327-bed hospital and outpatient facilities both on and off of the Eskenazi Health downtown campus as well as at 10 Eskenazi Health Center sites located throughout Indianapolis.

FLSA Status

Exempt

Job Role Summary

The Network Enterprise Architect is responsible for designing and guiding the implementation of scalable, secure, and high-performance network infrastructures across enterprise environments. This role emphasizes end-to-end ISP circuit design and provisioning, ensuring redundant, high-capacity connectivity to support critical business operations using primarily Cisco hardware and software solutions. The architect leads efforts in optimizing network performance through technologies such as jumbo frames, while driving the evolution of traditional data centers toward modern IT architectures. Wireless network design is a key focus, incorporating coverage, capacity, and seamless mobility for users. The architect also oversees the integration of next-generation firewalls, security-centric architectures, Cisco ISE access control, threat prevention, and segmentation strategies into the network. This role requires strong collaboration with security teams to ensure all designs align with enterprise security policies and compliance requirements.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Proactively contributes to Eskenazi Health's mission: Advocate, Care, Teach and Serve with special emphasis on the vulnerable population of Marion County; models Eskenazi Health values

• Serves as the foremost expert on the organization's complex network demonstrating the ability to design, deploy, and maintain stable, high-performing and secure networks (LAN, WLAN, WAN)

• Drives architecture planning, implementation, maintenance, and monitoring of all networking components, including providing recommendations and pathways to improve network design and function, continuing to ensure sustainable growth through futureproofing

• Defines, maintains and applies best practices for networking resources, including documenting roadmaps that factor in EoL (End of Life) replacements, topology design changes, technology changes (additions / removals / replacements)

• Collaborates with other infrastructure teams on technology designs and implementation (some examples that must be considered in network design at Eskenazi are: Citrix, Fiber-channel-over-IP, Cisco UCS, VOIP, and more)

• Serves as a technical lead to ensures proper operations with regard to network architecture, including incident and problem resolution for all organizational networking resources

• Creates and maintains complex networking diagrams, technical documentations', and job aides for supporting staff

• Provides technical leadership while leading projects, mentoring engineers, coordinating changes, and troubleshooting

• Utilizes lab simulation tools to vet configuration changes and new design elements to assess risk and impact

• Prepares and delivers written and oral training presentations to personnel at all organizational levels as required to explain functionality of networking resources

• Examines and monitors all networking resources to determine whether the business needs of the institution are being met, and plans or recommends system changes/expansion based on this information; prepares reports on utilization and performance of all networking resources

• Communicates with other Information Services staff and management regarding all technical aspects of networking resources and actively participates in process improvement efforts

• Participates as member of Tier III in 7x24 after hours on call rotation

• Ensures planning, timely execution and proper resourcing of all project level work as assigned, including acting in a project manager capacity for medium to large technical projects

• Consistently demonstrates strong ability to multi-task

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering field, or the equivalent in other experience and/or certification

• CCIE certification (preferred) or CCNP certification. If the applicant does not have either certification, they must have CCNP level experience with established and demonstrated architecture skills.

• ITIL/ITSM certification, or demonstrated expertise in ITIL practices

• At least 10 years of experience architecting and managing complex networking in a healthcare organization, or organization with similar mission, function and size

Accredited by The Joint Commission and named one of the nation's 150 best places to work by Becker's Hospital Review for four consecutive years and Forbes list of best places to work for women, and Forbes list of America's best midsize employers' Eskenazi Health's programs have received national recognition while also offering new health care opportunities to the local community. As the sponsoring hospital for Indianapolis Emergency Medical Services, the city's primary EMS provider, Eskenazi Health is also home to the first adult Level I trauma center in Indiana, the only verified adult burn center in Indiana, the first community mental health center in Indiana and the Eskenazi Health Center Primary Care - Center of Excellence in Women's Health, just to name a few.