Senior Principal SW Engineer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP; India; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to design, develop, and mature software systems across multiple platforms within the Global Business Unit.

This role combines hands-on architecture with strategic leadership, mentoring teammates, and influencing executive decisions. The position is hybrid, requiring an average of two days per week in an HPE office, and offers opportunities to innovate and contribute to industry standards.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software architecture and engineering experience.
• Experience designing software for multiple platforms.
• Strong communication and leadership abilities.
• Proven track record of innovation and patents.
• Ability to influence executive leadership and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Develops organization-wide architectures, strategies, and methodologies for software systems design and development across multiple platforms and organizations within the Global Business Unit.
• Identifies and makes informed recommendations regarding new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture.
• Reviews, evaluates, and influences designs and project activities for compliance with development guidelines and standards.
• Provides tangible solutions that improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
• Contributes to domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners, and industry standards groups.
• Brings creativity and innovation to the organization.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced team members to set an example of software systems design and development innovation and excellence; helps mentor career growth.
• Acts as an internal authority on software systems design, sought out for consulting across organizations or Business Units.
• Contributes to the external technical community through whitepapers, patents, or other significant innovations.

Skills

Software architecture

Leadership & mentoring

Communication skills

Analytical problem solving

Innovation & patents

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems

Job description

Senior Principal SW EngineerThis role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.**Who We Are:**Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.**Job Description:*****Job Family Definition:***Designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for software enhancements and new products. Develops software including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases and Internet-related tools. Determines hardware compatibility and/or influences hardware design.***Management Level Definition:***Contributions have substantial technical impact on a significant HPE product/project, or a strategic/architectural direction. Go-to creator and innovator for critical business challenges and opportunities. Substantial, unique contributions provide long-lasting, recurring benefits like time-to-market improvements, cost reductions, or satisfying future and current unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology areas. Provides technical leadership to the business for significant project/program work. Leads and connects others across functions to unite around a common goal. Actively mentors others and contributes to the HPE technical community.***What you will do:**** Develops organization-wide architectures, strategies, and methodologies for software systems design and development across multiple platforms and organizations within the Global Business Unit.* Identifies and makes informed recommendations regarding new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture.* Reviews, evaluates, and influences designs and project activities for compliance with development guidelines and standards.* Provides tangible solutions that improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.* Contributes to domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners, and industry standards groups.* Brings creativity and innovation to the organization.* Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced team members to set an example of software systems design and development innovation and excellence; helps mentor career growth.* Acts as an internal authority on software systems design, sought out for consulting across organizations or Business Units.* Contributes to the external technical community through whitepapers, patents, or other significant innovations.***What you need to bring:**** Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent.* Typically 15+ years’ experience. * Experience architecting, designing, and developing innovative software system design tools and languages.* Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.* Experience in leading overall architecture of software systems for products and solutions.* Designing and integrating efficient and scalable software systems running on multiple platform types into overall architecture.* Evaluating and selecting forms and processes for software systems testing and methodology, including writing and execution of test plans, debugging, and testing scripts and tools with customer mindset.* History of innovation with multiple patents or deployed solutions in the field of software design.* Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local languages, with an excellent ability to communicate nuanced concepts and influence in written and oral communication with a broad vocabulary.* Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals, and negotiate and influence options at business unit and executive levels.