This Director will lead team defining and driving technology architecture for Cisco Services. Drive consistent architectural approaches to enable services business strategy and ensure maximum leverage across technology investments. Work closely with technology and business stakeholders as a trusted advisor to develop architectures for new and existing offers. Act as a thought leader articulating the importance and value of common architectures within services and cross-functionally.
- Contribute to strategic discussions, help translate business and technology strategies into actionable technology architectures. Balance forward-looking/innovation-focused/strategic views with pragmatic perspective and ability to help align and realize the vision.
- Work cross-functionally across Cisco Services and Cisco to enable/support strategic technology initiatives.
- Lead team that establishes technology architectures for Services’ technology investments; drive architectural approach that supports business and technology strategies, enabling cross-leverage, extensibility, and innovation at all levels of the organization.
- Due to the nature of this role, the candidate will have an opportunity to interact with the senior most leaders in the business. This Role is for someone with high tolerance for ambiguity and find pragmatic ways to connect strategy with realistic execution objectives.
Minimum Qualifications
The successful candidate will be a seasoned executive with strong business acumen, ability to think strategically, technology acumen, and a proven track record of driving architectural approaches to solve business problems, leveraging resources and capabilities from across the enterprise. The successful candidate will have proven ability leading senior technology architecture teams. Through strong, collaborative partnerships and earned credibility, this leader is able to effectively manage and influence stakeholders, driving adoption of strategic architectures across a Global Services organization and within Cisco’s broader ecosystem.
This leader should be broad thinking with the ability to analyze complexity and make architectural recommendations and trade-offs. A pro-active and assertive approach to take on difficult issues and to uncover and address areas of opportunity will be critical.
Critical Capabilities include:
SHAPING STRATEGY: Connects Company and Services business challenges and priorities to develop an aligned technology architecture that supports the ultimate vision for the organization
EXECUTION EXCELLENCE: Demonstrates a strong drive for results in achieving the execution priorities defined by the vision and strategy
DEOMONSTRATING PASSION: Build passion in others for achieving long term goals and driving to the future state.
• Strong collaboration, relationship building and relationship management
• Thought leadership with the ability to take conceptual ideas and translate them into a forward looking architecture with defined goals and measurements that integrate with the overall strategy of Cisco Services.
Desired Skills
• Experience Leading in an Agile environment; experience in cloud/DevOps environment.
• Ability to quickly assess 3rd party vendors/tools capabilities and limitations, North bound and south bound interfaces
• Experience with data storage/management/access
• Experience with Cloud and Managed Services
• Software development with progressive ideas around API first,
• modularity, and distributed as key tenets
• Practical Service Delivery Platform experience
• Big Data experience, data governance, RESTful interface development
• Understanding of integration into 3rd party BSS systems
• Experience working effectively in large, complex and matrixed organizations
• Proven success leading technology architecture, where making clear trade-offs, and working closely with development teams is central to success
• Strong analytical capabilities
• Strong technology background; deep understanding of modern architectures/software technologies and best-of-breed development practices.
• Ability to think creatively and evidence of success in developing and executing plans for large scale projects or programs
• Proven leadership abilities
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