Chalhoub Group
Lead Architect - Network & Infrastructure
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
- Urgent
Job expiry date: 28/04/2026
Job overview
Date posted
14/03/2026
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Senior & Lead
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
28/04/2026
Job description
The Lead Architect - Network & Infrastructure at Chalhoub Group in Dubai is responsible for defining the technical vision, architecture, and design authority for all enterprise networks and infrastructure platforms across stores, offices, warehouses, datacenters, and edge locations. This role leads the transformation towards Infrastructure & Network as Code, ensures retail-grade security, resilience, and performance at scale, and provides strategic guidance to regional engineering teams. The architect collaborates closely with IT, Retail Operations, Cyber Security, Cloud, vendors, and telecom providers, and is accountable for measurable improvements in uptime, network reliability, security, and automation adoption.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Define and maintain enterprise network and infrastructure architecture frameworks, standards, and regional blueprints.
- Design high-availability, secure, and high-performance network and infrastructure solutions across WAN, LAN, WLAN, SD-WAN, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Act as Technical Design Authority and end-to-end architecture owner for network and infrastructure projects.
- Lead Infrastructure & Network as Code adoption across provisioning, configuration, validation, ITSM governance, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Embed security-by-design principles including network segmentation, Zero-Trust, encryption, firewalls, RBAC, and vulnerability reduction.
- Design disaster recovery and business continuity strategies with automated validation.
- Mentor and guide infrastructure and network engineering teams across the region.
- Collaborate with Retail Operations, Logistics, Cyber Security, Cloud, ITSM teams, vendors, and telecom providers to align architecture decisions with business outcomes.
- Define and monitor architecture KPIs including uptime, reliability, automation consistency, and security vulnerability reduction.
Experience & skills
- 8–12+ years in senior infrastructure and network architecture roles covering large-scale distributed networks.
- Experience operating and transforming networks across 700+ distributed sites (retail, logistics, or multi-site environments).
- Expertise in Cisco enterprise networking (WAN/LAN/WLAN/SD-WAN) and automation via CLI/API.
- Strong multi-cloud architecture knowledge (AWS, Azure, OCI, GCP) and hybrid connectivity.
- Deep experience with Microsoft enterprise technologies including identity, endpoints, servers, collaboration, and security.
- Proven Infrastructure & Network as Code experience (Terraform, Ansible, GitOps, APIs, intent-based networking).
- Experience designing CI/CD pipelines and automation-first infrastructure transformation.
- Strong grounding in security, resilience, reliability, and performance engineering.
- Nice to have: cloud networking/hybrid interconnect specialization, ITSM integration automation, network validation automation tools.