Network Architect
Design reliable and secure networks for distributed services.
Career Relationships
Directed transitions from Network Architect. Select a destination to inspect the relationship.
- Security Architect
Specialisation
- Solution Architect
Lateral mobility
- Enterprise Architect
Advancement
Solution Architect
Network integration experience can broaden towards end-to-end solution design.
Responsibilities that change
Business requirements, application integration and cloud design alternatives.
Recommended experience
- End-to-end solution design across multiple systems.
- Technical discovery with business stakeholders.
Additional or higher skill requirements
- Cloud Architecture · target 5 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- System Design · target 5 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Kubernetes · target 5 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Stakeholder Management · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Communication · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Cloud Governance · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Python · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
- Leadership · target 4 / 5Source: Not required in source role
Explore onward paths from Solution Architect
- Enterprise Architect · Advancement
- Cloud Practice Lead · Management
- Security Architect · Specialisation
- Platform Architect · Specialisation
These are differences between role requirements, not a person's assessed gaps. Individual readiness and transition timing require personal evidence and human review.
Incoming paths
Roles with a defined transition towards this profession. Reverse transitions are not implied.
- Cybersecurity Engineer · Specialisation
- Senior System Engineer · Specialisation
- Security Architect · Lateral mobility