Global SVP, Engineering - Routing & AI-Driven Platform

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 361,000 - 723,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing

Career development

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Senior Vice President of Engineering to lead RIS engineering across routing, WAN, edge, cloud, and software platforms. You will define the long-term strategy, drive organizational transformation, and champion AI-driven development while partnering with product management and architecture to deliver market-leading solutions.

This hybrid role requires steering a global team of software, platform, test, automation, and systems engineers, with a focus on

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 impact across routing, network OS, 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.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategic planning

Cross-functional leadership

Executive communication

Budget management

AI/ML awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

MS/PhD preferred

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a Senior Vice President of Engineering to lead RIS engineering across routing, WAN, edge, cloud, and software platforms. You will define the long-term strategy, drive organizational transformation, and champion AI-driven development while partnering with product management and architecture to deliver market-leading solutions.

This hybrid role requires steering a global team of software, platform, test, automation, and systems engineers, with a focus on