Senior Design Engineer

TITLE: Senior Design Engineer

DEPARTMENT: Network Services Global Engineering - Data

REPORTING TO: Senior Director of NS Global Engineering

OFFICE LOCATION: Newark

ROLE TYPE: Full-time

IPC is a global fintech company that puts people at the center of innovation. With a strong global footprint, we empower financial institutions and capital markets with advanced cloud-based trading communications and managed connectivity solutions.

Through our portfolio of communications and connectivity solutions, we focus on solving business challenges and adapting to regulatory changes in the fast-paced global financial markets. This enables our clients to maintain consistent market access, a strong competitive advantage, and enhance operational efficiency.

Join a team that is dedicated to delivering groundbreaking products and making a significant impact on our clients’ success.

www.IPC.com

­­­ Role Overview:

The Senior Design Engineer is an experienced network engineering professional responsible for designing, implementing, and improving IPC’s core and edge networking environments. This role combines hands-on network design, technical problem-solving, standards development, and operational support to deliver scalable, resilient, and secure network services globally.

Working across Product Management, Engineering, and Operations teams, this individual will contribute to the ongoing development of IPC’s networking infrastructure by resolving complex technical challenges, supporting new service development, delivering infrastructure expansion projects, and evaluating relevant technologies.

Key responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain network design standards, engineering guidelines, and configuration templates for IPC’s global network infrastructure.
• Design and enhance network solutions supporting IPC’s data services, voice services, data centers, and internal management networks.
• Develop deep knowledge in existing designs, platforms and technologies to be able to function as a Subject Matter Expert for assigned areas.
• Partner with Product Management and other Engineering teams to develop and improve new and existing products and services.
• Conduct proof-of-concept testing, technology evaluations, and vendor certification activities for new hardware and software platforms.
• Provide technical guidance for complex operational issues, lifecycle engineering initiatives, customer requirements and infrastructure expansion projects.
• Contribute to network planning activities, including capacity management, POP deployments, and core infrastructure upgrades.
• Evaluate relevant technologies and recommend solutions that align with defined business and customer requirements.
• Create technical documentation, operational procedures, and training materials to support service deployment and operational readiness.
• Share technical knowledge and provide guidance to Operations and Engineering colleagues.
• Serve as a senior technical resource for network design, implementation, and troubleshooting.

How You Will Make an Impact:

As Senior Design Engineer, you will contribute to the design and continued improvement of IPC’s global network infrastructure. Your technical expertise will support the scalability, reliability, and performance of the services our clients depend on every day.

Success in this role will be measured through:

• Delivery of scalable network designs that meet defined business and technical requirements.
• Successful implementation and operational adoption of new technologies and services.
• Measurable improvements in network resiliency, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Effective contribution to network capacity planning and infrastructure delivery.
• Reduction of technical risk through consistent engineering standards and practices.
• Effective collaboration with Product, Operations, and Engineering teams to deliver agreed objectives.
• Quality, accuracy, and usability of technical documentation, training, and knowledge sharing.

Essential Skills and Experience to be Successful in this Role:

• 10+ years of network engineering experience, including substantial experience with IP routing and Metro Ethernet environments.
• Experience designing and supporting complex enterprise or service-provider networks using NAT, VPNs, firewalls, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Advanced knowledge of Layer 3 networking, including IP routing, IP multicast, MPLS, BGP VPNs…