SVP, Engineering

Job Description:

The Senior Vice President (SVP), Engineering is responsible for leading the global engineering organization for Routing Infrastructure Solutions (RIS), driving the vision, strategy, execution, quality, and innovation of HPE's routing, WAN, edge, cloud-routing, automation, and network software portfolio. The SVP serves as a key member of the RIS leadership team and is accountable for delivering world-class products, accelerating software and platform innovation, enabling AI-first engineering practices, and ensuring operational excellence across a globally distributed engineering workforce.

This executive will lead a large-scale organization of software, platform, test, automation, and systems engineers while partnering closely with Product Management, Architecture, Customer Experience, Operations, Sales, and Strategic Customers to deliver market-leading solutions and sustained business growth.

• Define and execute the multi-year engineering strategy aligned with RIS business objectives and technology roadmap.
• Lead the global engineering organization responsible for routing, WAN, cloud, edge, platform, software, test, and automation development.
• Establish a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Drive organizational transformation to improve engineering velocity, product quality, customer outcomes, and operational efficiency.
• Champion AI-driven development, automation, and data-driven engineering practices across all engineering functions.

• Own end-to-end product development execution from concept through release and lifecycle management.
• Deliver predictable, high-quality product releases while balancing innovation, quality, security, and customer commitments.
• Ensure engineering execution aligns with investment priorities, business objectives, and customer requirements.
• Lead cross-functional planning processes to optimize resource allocation and portfolio prioritization.
• Drive engineering readiness and scalable release processes across multiple product families.

• Ability to ignite innovation and boldly embrace cutting-edge technology, turning emerging possibilities into meaningful and lasting impact across routing, network operating systems, automation, AIOps, telemetry, observability, cloud services, and network assurance.
• Partner with Architecture leadership to define next-generation networking technologies and platform strategies.
• Promote adoption of AI, machine learning, and automation technologies to accelerate development and improve product quality.
• Influence industry standards, technology partnerships, and strategic customer engagements.

• Build strong relationships with strategic customers, partners, and hyperscalers.
• Translate customer requirements into scalable engineering solutions that drive competitive differentiation.
• Ensure engineering organizations proactively address customer quality, reliability, scalability, and performance needs.
• Support revenue growth through successful product introductions and customer deployments.

• Lead, develop, and inspire a global organization of engineering leaders and technical professionals.
• Build a high-performance culture focused on collaboration, inclusion, innovation, and accountability.
• Drive succession planning, leadership development, and retention of critical technical talent.
• Foster engineering career growth and strengthen the technical leadership pipeline.
• Promote organizational agility and effective collaboration across geographically dispersed teams.

• Establish and monitor key engineering performance indicators including quality, productivity, release predictability, customer experience, and operational efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with security, regulatory, and industry standards.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that reduce defects, improve reliability, and accelerate time-to-market.
• Manage large-scale engineering budgets and investment priorities.

The SVP Engineering will be evaluated on:

• Achievement of engineering and business objectives.
• Product delivery predictability and roadmap execution.
• Software and product quality metrics.
• Customer satisfaction, Net Promoter Score (NPS), and Voice of Customer (VoC) improvement.
• Engineering productivity and velocity improvements.
• Adoption and impact of AI-enabled development and automation.
• Employee engagement, retention, leadership development, and succession readiness.
• Successful delivery of strategic platform and technology initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or related discipline.
• 20+ years of progressive engineering leadership experience in networking, telecommunications, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise technology.
• Proven experience leading large global engineering organizations comprising multiple engineering disciplines.
• Demonstrated success delivering complex hardware and software products at scale.
• Strong understanding of networking technologies including routing, switching, cloud networking, WAN, edge computing, and network operating systems.
• Proven record of organizational transformation and operational excellence.
• Experience managing large engineering budgets and global teams.
• Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Advanced degree (MS or PhD) in a technical field.
• Experience with AI/ML-driven software development.
• Experience working with hyperscale cloud providers and strategic enterprise customers.
• Track record of driving innovation and industry-leading technology platforms.
• Experience influencing industry standards and external partnerships.

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