Senior Architect Connectivity Platform

Job Purpose

We looking for a Senior Connectivity Architect to join Liberty Globals Technology Platform group to define the next generation of connectivity experiences across our operating companies.

This role provides architectural leadership across CPE in-home Wi-Fi Smart Home and associated cloud-based connectivity platforms. You will translate customer and business needs into clear end-to-end technology strategies spanning devices applications and cloud services at scale. Embedding AI capabilities across the platform from edge intelligence on the CPE to agentic experiences in customer-facing services is a core pillar of this strategy.

You will bring deep expertise in one or more connectivity domains combined with the ability to rapidly assess adjacent technologies and guide architectural decisions across the full connectivity stack. You will act as a technical authority and advocate for the ONEConnect platform and ensure its continued evolution as a secure scalable and market leading AI-native platform forbroadband and Wi-Fi services.

Key Responsibilities

Connectivity Platform Strategy & Architecture

• Act as a domain authority for CPE inhome connectivity and Smart Home shaping roadmaps spanning hardware software device management and cloud orchestration.
• Define the technical approach for integrating solutions for smart Wi-Fi security and speed-testing enabling differentiated customer features.
• Lead RFx activities building specifications that balance feature sets performance cost and delivery timelines.
• Lead technology assessments proofs of concept and technical due diligence for new solutions and vendors providing clear recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Guide strategic technology choices across CPE software and AI platforms incorporating total cost of ownership and unit economics.
• Identify and shape opportunities for edge AI capabilities on the home CPE enabling local AI inference real-time insights and new use cases.
• Drive ONEConnects evolution into an AI-native platform embedding AI and agentic capabilities across customer experiences operational automation and platform intelligence with appropriate privacy and security guardrails.
• Represent Liberty Global in industry standards bodies and open-source communities (e.g. Broadband Forum CableLabs Wi-Fi Alliance CSA RDK).
• Act as a technology evangelist for ONEConnect ensuring strategy and direction are clearly understood across teams and operating markets.

Delivery Governance & Operational Excellence

• Partner with delivery teams and vendors to review designs and lead design reviews ensuring adherence to principles best practices compliance and value for money.
• Ensure architectures deliver secure compliant resilient and scalable ONEConnect and CPE platforms aligned with European Swiss and UK regulations (including EU AI Act and responsible AI principles) and industry best practice.
• Act as a bridge between LTech and Customer Markets balancing global scalability with local market requirements.
• Contribute to platform lifecycle strategy including versioning compatibility deprecation and upgrade paths across firmware APIs and cloud services.

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• Bachelors or Masters Degree level (or equivalent) in a STEM discipline.
• Proven experience as a technology leader in CPE and connectivity platforms.
• Strong background spanning cloud-native platforms APIs applications and connected consumer devices (e.g. CPE Wi-Fi IoT Smart Home).
• Experience working with large scale cloud ecosystems including microservices and AI-enabled platforms ideally in a telco or service provider context.
• Experience integrating AI capabilities into customer-facing and operational connectivity systems.

DOMAIN & TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

• Experience working with large scale cloud ecosystems including microservices and AI-enabled platforms ideally in a telco or service provider context.
• Broad knowledge of connectivity technologies (e.g. Wi-Fi DOCSIS XGS-PON Thread Bluetooth Zigbee 3GPP USP/TR-369 IP networking).
• Strong understanding of embedded CPE software (e.g. RDK-B OpenWRT OpenEmbedded HALs/SDKs).
• Working knowledge of AI/ML for connectivity platforms (e.g. edge inference LLM/agentic systems MLOps and responsible AI).

SKILLS & ABILITIES

• Communicate clear concise and technically robust recommendations to both technical and business audiences with different seniority levels.
• Strong analytical and problem solving capability with an outcome focused mindset.
• Hands on fluency with modern AI tools and their application to architecture and decision-making.
• Fluent spoken and written English.
• Experience leading through influence in a matrix organization.
• Willingness to travel and work across time zone.

***Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our people.

Required Experience:

Senior IC

Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1