Senior Director Software Engineering & Architecture Cisco San Jose

Job description
The Senior Director of Engineering will be an action oriented disruptive and innovative leader responsible for the software architecture engineering integration and innovation for Access and Identity Security products.
The role is based in Cisco s San Jose California headquarters campus.



Key Responsibilities
Partner with cross functional core stakeholders within both engineering product management and field teams to lead the technology direction facilitate key technical decision points and take the architecture specifications into working engineering outcomes
Interface with multiple engineering groups in Cisco who are responsible for developing the infrastructure and products that define a complete access and identity security solution.

Commit to road maps with capabilities and timelines with a proven track of product development delivered on time with quality.

Align technology to business strategy and proactively drive a technical direction throughout the organization
Manage a geographically dispersed team consisting of both full time and contract employees and senior level technical individuals
Document and comply with quality processes following a CI/CD methodology

Requirements

years proven experience in software engineering leadership roles
Strong engineering delivery and execution track record with proven experience around design concepts development integration testing etc
Ability to attract talent inspire the organization and develop the next generation of leaders
Ability to build trusting meaningful relationships with peers stakeholders and partners both internal and external to CIsco
Excellent written and verbal communication skills including technical influencing conflict management negotiation public presenting
Full commitment to customer satisfaction and the highest ethical standards
Identify and drive innovation in Cisco products services solutions technologies and processes
Strong business acumen and industry insight thought leadership
Leadership skills to include coaching/mentoring critical thinking facilitation change leadership and team development
Thorough understanding of scale out software architectures for on premises and cloud hosted environments across all layers infrastructure security compliance operations and software life cycle management

Technical Knowledge

Software development and overall automation including Agile CI/CD DevOps Continuous Integration build and test automation orchestration/fulfillment assurance performance
Relevant experience in large scale application architecture/design middle ware architecture integration architecture application deployment methods automation testing compliance auditing
Core infrastructure networking technologies including network compute storage physical engineering
Security intrusion detection/prevention admin access FW identity access control

Education

Master s degree preferred

About Cisco
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We are pioneers and have been since the early days of connectivity.
Today we are building teams that are expanding our technology solutions in the mobile cloud security IT and big data spaces including software and consulting services.
As Cisco delivers the network that powers the Internet we are connecting the unconnected.
Imagine creating unprecedented disruption.
Your revolutionary ideas will impact everything from retail healthcare and entertainment to public and private sectors and far beyond.
Collaborate with like minded innovators in a fun and flexible culture that has earned Cisco global recognition as a Great Place To Work.
With roughly 10 billion connected things in the world now and over 50 billion estimated in the future your career has exponential possibilities at Cisco.

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