About the Role
Liberty Global is seeking a Senior Connectivity Architect to define the next generation of connectivity experiences. This role provides architectural leadership across CPE, in-home Wi-Fi, Smart Home, and associated cloud-based connectivity platforms, translating needs into technology strategies and embedding AI capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Act as a domain authority for CPE, in-home 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 ONEConnect’s 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s 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.
Skills
- 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 zones.
- 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).
Location
- Europe
- Switzerland
- United Kingdom
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Bachelor's Degree
- Master's Degree
About the Company
- Liberty Global is a leading international converged connectivity and investment company focused on creating sustainable, long-term value for customers, employees and shareholders through the strategic management of three platforms — Liberty Telecom, Liberty Growth and Liberty Services.
- Liberty Telecom is a world leader in converged broadband, video and mobile communications services, delivering next-generation products through advanced fibre and 5G networks.
- It currently provides approximately 80 million connections through some of Europe’s best-known consumer brands, including Virgin Media-O2 in the UK, VodafoneZiggo in The Netherlands, Telenet in Belgium, and Virgin Media in Ireland.
- With our substantial scale and commitment to innovation, we are building Tomorrow’s Connections Today, investing in the infrastructure and platforms that empower our customers to make the most of the digital revolution, while deploying the advanced technologies that nations and economies need to thrive.
- Liberty Growth invests, grows and rotates capital into scalable businesses across the technology, media/content, sports and infrastructure industries with a portfolio of approximately 70 companies and various funds, including stakes in companies like ITV, Televisa Univision, Plume, EdgeConneX and AtlasEdge, as well as our controlling interest in the Formula E racing series.
- Liberty Services delivers innovative technology and finance services, generating approximately $600 million in revenue.
- Our scale enables us to transfer knowledge and expertise across our operations and investments, creating a dynamic family of brands united in the pursuit of innovation and excellence, with a commitment to building a culture where everyone feels they belong.
- And we’re prioritizing diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace and communities, while reducing our impact on the environment.
- We are using technology as a force for good; for our people, our partners and the planet.
- OUR FUTURE OUTLOOK IS EXCITING, TOGETHER
Equal Opportunity
- Liberty Global is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for our people.
