SW Engineering Manager

SW Engineering Manager

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Job Description:

What you’ll do:

HPE-Juniper Networking is a leading telecommunications equipment vendor building high-performance network products for service providers, enterprises, data centers, campus and metro customers.

The software engineering group is responsible to design, develop, build, qualify and release software and networking products. The software engineering group comprises of highly skilled professionals who are responsible in delivering production grade quality release and products through agile and adaptive engineering methodologies.

The role of software engineering senior manager plays an important role by leading and managing the team of skilled professional engineers in qualifying solutions and use-case for HPE customers. This role entails highly skilled technical professional along with exemplary leadership qualities to meet business objectives. As a decision-maker, he/she would be responsible for planning the project work, managing professional team, promoting best practices, hiring talented professionals, and maintaining ecosystem to maximum his/her direct-report employee’s potential. 

Management Level Definition:

Applies expert subject matter knowledge to manage staff activities in solving most complex business/technical issues within established policies. Manages activities of exempt individual contributors (typically Expert/Master) and/or MG1s. Has accountability for a large multi-department area(s) or location(s) with significant impact on business unit results and organizational strategy. Acts as a key advisor to senior management on the development of overall policies and long-term goals of the organization. Plans, manages, and monitors high-end operational/tactical activities of Staff. Staff members' primary focus is on either high-end tactical or broad strategic issues or a combination of both. Recruits and supports development of direct staff members. Position typically reports to Director or above. 

Additional Guidance/Criteria: Manages and controls activities within a sub-region or Region; Typically manages 10 or more direct reports.  Span of Control guidelines may differ from these numbers.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the execution and delivery of product/software solution by managing and leading a team of skilled professional engineers. 
• Being in a leadership role, work closely with the team to strategize and execute on delivering production grade solutions across market segment.
• Gather requirements and implement to deliver committed scope meeting release schedule without compromising the quality.
• Identify and allocate resources which includes human resources, tools, techniques, equipment based on KPI metrics.
• Optimize CAPEX/OPEX during project delivery, extend for future use in regressions.
• Agility through automation
• Guide the team in building solution test plans based on customer use-case across segments.
• Own customer use-case end-to-end right from inception to deployment.
• Must educate the team on the goals and business objectives.
• Build and maintain strong professional relationships with team.
• Stay up to date on product roadmaps, specifications, performance criteria, in addition to competitors’ solutions, amongst others. 
• Work collaboratively with cross functional teams, architects, and executives.
• Working closely with Juniper product development and business unit architecture teams to understand product/feature requirements and solutions in alignment with customer business/network priorities.
• Build strong relationships with the senior leadership to understand the business objectives and translate into project deliverables.
• Highlight and brainstorm emerging technologies and customer use cases for betterment of the product deliverables.
• Make critical decisions which attributes to the success of the product and solution.
• Work with stakeholders to review project and execution plan.
• Define entry and exist criteria for each phase of the project.
• Identify and have mitigation plans for identified risks.
• Consolidation and projection of project deliverables on preset regular intervals.
• Should be able to gather and consolidate the deliverables using appropriate tools.
• Project and report the deliverables to all stakeholders.
• Identify and manage the risks.
• Influence and maintain high morale by motivating engineers to deliver to their maximum potentials.
• Lead by an example by influencing and building trust among the team.
• Reward and recognize talented individuals.
• Provide technical guidance on career development.
• Build and expand the team
• Hire talented group of professional engineers to bring in the right mix in the team.
• Identify subject matter experts for specific areas. 
• Drive Innovation within the team
• Encourage team for active participation in internal and external tech forums.
• Encourage and recognize contributions towards IETF, Patents, Certifications.
• Assist with developmental needs.

What you need to bring:

Required Skills:

• Leadership qualities to hire, reward and retain talented professional team.
• Talented individual to participate in technical discussions and translate it into business objectives.
• Excellent ability to influence internal and external stakeholders and build consensus.
• Technically capable to define specific product requirements and understand how they will affect customer networks.
• Should have exceptional communication and writing skills.
• Must be a strong advocate for sales while building relationships across business groups.
• Should possess outstanding problem-solving capabilities.
• Must be able to multitask in a role with little supervision and many demands from many constituents.
• Should effectively manage group of professionals to bring out individual’s maximum potential.
• Should have prior managerial experience to lead the technical team.
• Should be knowledgeable on software testing process and requirements.
• Should have awareness about the industry trends in respective domains. 
• Should have experience in core routing, switching and edge protocols.
• Should have expert level knowledge on Juniper Products.

Education and Experience Required:

• B.S or M.S in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering.
• Minimum of 13+ years of experience in networking industry including experience in leading and managing technical professional team of engineers.
• Strong knowledge on Juniper Networks products and solutions.
• The candidate must possess excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Experience with other vendor routers like Cisco, Alcatel router/switch.
• Working knowledge of UNIX;  proficiency in a scripting language, such as Perl, Expect, would be a plus Experience in various test methodologies white box, black box, solution testing is desirable.
• Certification like JNCIS or equivalent would be highly desirable.

Tools & Technologies Skills: 

• IP / MPLS routing
• Understanding of TCP/IP and related protocols such as Ethernet, OSPF, ISIS, L2VPN, L3VPN, GRE, IPSec, NAT, HTTP, NetConf, BGP, MPLS, EVPN-VXLAN, Multicast; 
• Automation programming skills (Python, Perl) network virtualization, containerization, and Software Defined Networking (SDN) knowledge is required. 
• Layer 2 technologies, Spanning Tree, LAG, MC-LAG, Virtual Chassis 
• CLOS Architecture, HA Design Concepts, EVPN, VPLS  

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum Development, Analytical Thinking, Bias, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 5 more}

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

Manager_2

    

    

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