This executive leadership role is responsible for the design, implementation, and governance of a secure, resilient, and high-performing infrastructure that includes enterprise networking, global security services, identity and access management, telephony and unified communications, and contact center platforms.

Spanning on-premise data centers, multi-cloud environments, and global corporate offices, you will establish comprehensive security frameworks, policies, and standards required to protect our corporate assets and data.

The ideal candidate is a transformational leader who can protect the enterprise from evolving cyber threats while delivering a robust technology foundation that enables business innovation and agility.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic & Architectural Leadership:

• Develop and own the enterprise architecture vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the network and security portfolio, ensuring tight alignment with business goals and digital transformation initiatives.

• Lead the creation, governance, and promotion of architectural standards, patterns, and best practices for all covered services, including Zero Trust (ZTNA) and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) frameworks.

• Drive modernization initiatives across the portfolio, guiding the transition from traditional architectures to modern, automated, and cloud-native solutions to enhance security and eliminate legacy technical debt.

• Champion a culture of innovation by evaluating emerging technologies and providing architectural direction for their adoption to solve complex business problems.

• Serve as the primary architectural authority for the enterprise across network, telephony, and security domains, providing expert guidance to executive leadership, business stakeholders, and technology teams.

Domain-Specific Architectural Oversight: Lead and mentor a team of architects, ensuring architectural integrity and strategic alignment across the following key domains:

• Global Network Architecture: Oversee the architecture for all network infrastructure, including SD-WAN, LAN/WAN, Wi-Fi, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, and data center networking.

• Global Security Architecture: Define the strategy for enterprise-wide security services, including next-generation firewalls (NGFW), IDS/IPS, WAF, CASB, and data loss prevention (DLP).

• Identity & Access Management (IAM): Lead the architectural vision for all IAM services, including authentication, authorization, single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and privileged access management (PAM).

• Platform Security: Drive the security architecture for underlying infrastructure platforms, including operating systems, virtualization, and container platforms (Kubernetes).

• Telephony & Contact Center: Direct the architectural strategy for unified communications (UCaaS/VoIP) and contact center (CCaaS) platforms, ensuring they are secure, resilient, and integrated with enterprise systems.

Executive Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement:

• Lead, mentor, and cultivate a high-performing team of principal and senior architects, fostering a collaborative environment of technical excellence and strong business acumen.

• Build and maintain strong, trust-based relationships with C-level executives, business unit leaders, and engineering teams to ensure architectural solutions meet enterprise-wide objectives.

• Act as a key influencer and communicator, articulating complex architectural concepts and their business value to diverse audiences, from technical experts to non-technical executives.

• Partner closely with the CISO organization and IT operations to ensure that architectural designs are effectively implemented, monitored, and compliant with regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or a related field required. Master’s degree preferred.

• Experience: Minimum of 15 years of experience in information technology, with at least 10 years in an architecture role spanning network, security, or infrastructure. Minimum of 5 years in a formal leadership capacity, with proven experience managing, mentoring, and developing senior architects and technical staff.

• Technical Skills: Security Architecture: Deep expertise in security frameworks and technologies, including Zero Trust, SASE, NGFW, IDS/IPS, SIEM, WAF, CASB, DLP, and endpoint security. Identity & Access Management: Expert knowledge of IAM principles and protocols (SAML, OAuth, OIDC), and experience with IGA, MFA, and PAM solutions. Network Architecture: Expert knowledge of modern networking principles and technologies, including SD-WAN, BGP, MPLS, VPN, DNS, DHCP, and data center networking. Cloud Security: Expert knowledge of cloud networking and security architecture in AWS, Azure, and/or GCP (e.g., VPCs/VNETs, Security Groups, IAM, Cloud WAFs).

• Soft Skills & Leadership Qualities: Executive Presence: Confident and articulate communicator with the ability to present to and influence senior executives and board-level stakeholders. Strategic Vision: Ability to think long-term and create a compelling, business-aligned vision for the future state of the technology landscape. Collaborative Leadership: Proven ability to lead through influence, build consensus across diverse teams, and foster strong cross-functional partnerships. Business Acumen: Strong ability to understand business drivers and translate them into technical requirements and architectural solutions that deliver tangible value.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCIE, TOGAF (at least one required). Expert-level cloud architecture or security certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Security - Specialty, Azure Security Engineer Expert) highly preferred. Experience managing departmental budgets and participating in financial planning. Experience leading a group of at least 5 enterprise architects.

Benefits

This position comes with competitive compensation and benefits package:

1. Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses

1. Comprehensive benefits package

1. Career development and training opportunities

1. Flexible work arrangements (remote and/or office-based)

1. Dynamic and inclusive work culture within a globally renowned group

1. Private Health Insurance

1. Pension Plan

1. Paid Time Off

1. Training & Development

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You will work closely with performance modeling and internal architecture teams to evaluate tradeoffs, while owning the end-to-end definition and execution of third-party system designs. This includes identifying gaps in current technologies, driving vendor development, and shaping future infrastructure capabilities.

This role requires strong system intuition, cross-functional leadership, and the ability to operate effectively across internal teams and external ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define rack- and cluster-level reference architectures for AI infrastructure deployments.
• Translate workload requirements into clear system design specifications and partner deliverables.
• Collaborate with performance modeling teams to evaluate architectural tradeoffs and system behaviors.
• Align internal stakeholders and external partners on critical system attributes (performance, cost, power, reliability, scalability).
• Identify gaps in current technology offerings and drive vendors (ODM/JDM, silicon, networking) to close those gaps.
• Influence and shape vendor roadmaps to meet future infrastructure needs.
• Track emerging technologies and evaluate their applicability to AI systems.
• Define and lead proof-of-concept (PoC) efforts to validate new architectures and technologies.
• Act as a key interface between OpenAI and external partners, ensuring execution against design intent.

Qualifications:

• Have strong experience in system architecture for large-scale infrastructure or data center environments.
• Understand AI workload characteristics and how they map to system-level design decisions.
• Are comfortable working with performance modeling outputs to inform architectural direction.
• Have experience working with or managing hardware vendors (ODM/JDM, silicon, networking).
• Can drive alignment across multiple stakeholders with competing constraints.
• Have a track record of turning ambiguous requirements into clear, executable system designs.
• Are proactive in identifying gaps and driving solutions across organizational boundaries.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience defining rack- or cluster-level systems for hyperscale or AI workloads.
• Familiarity with accelerators (GPUs/ASICs), interconnects, and data center networking architectures.
• Experience influencing vendor roadmaps and reference designs.
• Background in infrastructure deployment, hardware engineering, or systems integration.
• Experience leading PoCs or early-stage hardware validation efforts.

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You are a forward-thinking and highly motivated IT professional with a passion for reliability, automation, and infrastructure excellence. You thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments where your expertise in data center operations, engineering compute, and automation can make a tangible impact. With a strong foundation in Linux-based environments, virtualization, and network architecture, you bring both depth and breadth to IT operations, ensuring optimal performance and security.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize the Taiwan data center at the Synopsys Hsinchu office, ensuring compliance with corporate IT data center and security standards.
• Manage the full server hardware lifecycle, including rack installation, provisioning, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Support and manage engineering compute IT environments located at key customer data centers, such as TSMC and MediaTek.
• Collaborate with corporate network and InfoSec teams to maintain data center network infrastructure, including core switches, TOR, firewalls, routers, and circuits.
• Oversee the software architecture of EDA compute, focusing on Linux environments, and provide troubleshooting expertise for virtualization platforms, job schedulers, and remote access solutions.
• Design and implement automation processes to streamline regular tasks, reduce manual effort, and adopt ML/AI technologies for efficient EDA compute orchestration and secure chamber domain management.
• Proactively monitor, analyze, and optimize system performance to maximize uptime and reliability.

Impact

• Ensure the seamless operation and scalability of Synopsys' Taiwan data center, directly supporting R&D and customer-facing teams.
• Enable faster and more reliable silicon design and verification cycles for leading semiconductor companies.
• Drive continuous improvement in data center operations through automation and adoption of cutting-edge technologies.
• Safeguard mission-critical infrastructure by upholding best practices in security and compliance.
• Facilitate collaboration between internal teams and major customers, strengthening Synopsys' reputation as a trusted technology partner.
• Contribute to the global reliability and performance of Synopsys' EDA compute environment, empowering innovation at scale.

Requirements

• Proven experience in data center operations, including server hardware lifecycle management and resource provisioning.
• Strong knowledge of Linux system administration, virtualization platforms, and EDA compute architectures.
• Solid understanding of data center networking concepts, including core switches, firewalls, routers, and security protocols.
• Hands-on expertise in automation tools and scripting (such as Python, Bash, or Ansible), with a track record of process optimization.
• Experience implementing or supporting ML/AI-based solutions for IT infrastructure orchestration is a plus.

Team

You'll join a dedicated IT engineering compute team responsible for maintaining and optimizing Synopsys' Taiwan data center and engineering compute operations. The team plays a critical role in supporting Synopsys' R&D software development and providing seamless support to key customers across Taiwan, including industry leaders like TSMC and MediaTek. You'll collaborate with global IT, InfoSec, and engineering teams, driving future EDA compute expansion and innovation.

Rewards and Benefits

We offer a comprehensive range of health, wellness, and financial benefits to cater to your needs. Our total rewards include both monetary and non-monetary offerings. Your recruiter will provide more details about the salary range and benefits during the hiring process.

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