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# Director Lead - Systems Engineering

- **Company:** Ally Bank
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,000.0 - $235,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Performance Management, Systems Engineering, Border Gateway Protocol, Network Analysis, Cloud Computing, Databases, Data Centers, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Network Security, Network Architecture, Network Monitoring, Routing, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Virtual Machines, Wide Area Networks, Network Simulation, Computer Networking Systems
- **Published:** September 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/us/en/find-jobs-in-United-States/-A5499C5CE9485FFC2B/

## About the Role

* 7+ years of experience in network architecture, engineering, and operations, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
 * Strong knowledge of network principles, routing protocols (OSPF, BGP), VPNs, and network security frameworks (eg, NIST)
 * Proven experience in designing and managing high-availability and resilient network infrastructures
 * Experience supervising network architecture, engineering, and operational teams, with excellent leadership, communication, and team-building skills
 * Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging CTO, CISO, CIO, and regulatory bodies
 * Robust collaboration skills to align with peer teams across technology, risk management, audit, and compliance to ensure regulatory reporting and risk mitigation strategies are met

## Description

In this pivotal engineering leadership role, you will be leading the architecture, engineering and operational support of Ally's network and data center functions, ensuring stability, performance and scalability. This role combines advanced design, planning, implementation and troubleshooting of network systems and data center operations with leadership responsibilities. This role will align technical capabilities with business goals, facilitating cross-functional collaboration and ensuring compliance with security and performance standards. This role will require you to work closely with several peer teams across enterprise technology and security groups. Your ability to bridge these areas will be essential in delivering industry-leading solutions that meet the diverse needs of our stakeholders and customers.
The Work Itself

 * Direct and manage the daily activities of the Network and Data Center teams
 * Mentor network and data center architects, engineers, and technicians by setting goals and objectives, providing regular performance reviews, and fostering professional development
 * Act as a primary escalation point for technical and operational issues
 * Develop and enforce network architecture, standards, and policies for SD-WAN and telecommunications technologies
 * Conduct capacity planning and network analysis to ensure the scalability and reliability of infrastructure
 * Provide advanced network simulation and analysis of application and business requirements
 * Design, implement, and maintain cloud networking technologies, including virtual machines, containers, storage, databases, and networking
 * Collaborate with CIO teams to identify, report, and remediate network-based application performance issues
 * Design, implement, and maintain network observability solutions to monitor network performance and implement enhancements to meet or exceed operational targets
 * Establish and maintain relationships with network and data center-related vendors, ensuring timely support and cost-effective solutions
 * Provide transparent availability and capacity reports to leadership, highlighting areas of success and improvement


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