Kforce is immediately seeking an experienced Network Architect in support of our enterprise telecommunications and mass media client based in Greenwood Village, CO. Responsibilities: * Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience * Researches, designs, implements proof-of-concepts, monitors and enhances systems * Analyzes and revises existing system logic difficulties and documentation as necessary * Tests and reviews system designs * Provides Engineering Technical support and guidance to partner teams and ensure all technical integration, changes, standards and documentation are met * Mentors and guides the work of technical staff * Design and implement high-performance, scalable architectures for network systems, ensuring low-latency data processing and fault tolerance * Collaborate on full-stack software development, emphasizing APIs, microservices, and cloud-native architectures * Develop end-to-end data pipelines, integrating structured and unstructured data sources across distributed systems * Leverage machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to analyze large-scale network telemetry for anomaly detection, predictive maintenance, and QoE optimization * Optimize data ingestion, transformation, and transport across real-time streaming platforms (e.g., Apache Kafka, Pulsar, Flink) and batch processing frameworks (e.g., Apache Spark, Dask) * Manage and integrate database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) for efficient storage and retrieval, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cassandra, and Redis, as well as columnar databases (ClickHouse, BigQuery, Apache Parquet) for analytical workloads * Define and implement RESTful APIs and GraphQL services, ensuring high availability and efficient communication between network management platforms and AI-driven automation layers