Senior Director Engineering, Solutions Management

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 275,000 - 459,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks a Senior Director of Solutions Engineering Management to lead a global customer-facing team driving adoption of Networking Data Center solutions. The role spans technical discovery through production deployment and lifecycle expansion, with a focus on translating customer needs into strategic product direction.

You will connect field insight to engineering priorities, mentor leaders, and guide complex engagements across AI infrastructure and data center

Qualifications

• Significant leadership in Solutions Engineering or related customer-facing role.
• Proven success leading leaders and scaling geographically distributed teams in enterprise tech.
• Deep knowledge of data center networking architectures and protocols (L2/L3, VXLAN/EVPN, routing, security, automation).
• Experience with AI infrastructure or high-performance networking concepts; preferred.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategy, operating model, and success measures for Data Center Solutions Engineering.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a diverse, high-performing management and engineering team.
• Own technical engagement across the customer lifecycle from discovery to production adoption.
• Establish a design-partner model turning requirements into actionable product priorities.
• Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Support, and Services to remove adoption barriers.
• Guide customers through data center and AI networking decisions (Ethernet fabrics, VXLAN/EVPN, automation).
• Create repeatable architectures, playbooks, and field enablement to shorten PoC to production.
• Provide executive-level technical leadership during strategic pursuits and critical reviews.
• Use metrics to forecast capacity and improve team productivity and outcomes.
• Represent customer perspectives in portfolio planning and communicate tradeoffs to leadership.

Skills

Leadership experience

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Data center networking

AI infrastructure

Proof-of-concept deployments

Solution strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering or CS

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

VXLAN/EVPN

Ethernet switching

L2/L3 networking

RDMA/RoCEv2

Automation

Job description

This 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

The Senior Director of Solutions Engineering Management will lead the customer-facing technical organization responsible for accelerating adoption of HPE Networking’s Data Center portfolio. This leader will build and scale a high-performing global team that engages customers and strategic design partners from technical discovery and architecture through proof of concept, production deployment, and lifecycle expansion. The role will connect field insight to product and engineering priorities, improve execution across complex customer engagements, and help customers realize business value from modern data center, AI-fabric, and cloud-delivered networking solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the strategy, operating model, and success measures for the Data Center Solutions Engineering organization in alignment with business, product, and engineering priorities.
• Recruit, develop, and lead a diverse, high-performing management and engineering team with strong technical depth, customer orientation, and execution discipline.
• Own technical engagement across the customer lifecycle, including discovery, solution architecture, demonstrations, proofs of concept, deployment readiness, production adoption, and complex escalations.
• Establish a design-partner model that converts customer requirements, deployment experience, and operational feedback into actionable product and roadmap recommendations.
• Partner with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Support, and Services to develop integrated account strategies and remove barriers to adoption.
• Guide customers through complex data center and AI networking decisions, including Ethernet fabrics, RDMA/RoCEv2, congestion management, VXLAN/EVPN, automation, observability, and cloud-delivered operations.
• Create repeatable architectures, technical playbooks, validation practices, and field enablement that improve solution quality and reduce time from proof of concept to production.
• Provide executive-level technical leadership during strategic pursuits, customer reviews, design workshops, and critical issue resolution.
• Use business and operational metrics to forecast capacity, prioritize investments, assess pipeline quality, and improve team productivity and customer outcomes.
• Represent customer and field perspectives in portfolio planning while clearly communicating technical tradeoffs, delivery risks, and competitive implications to senior leadership.

Required Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in Solutions Engineering, Systems Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Engineering, or a closely related customer-facing technical function.
• Demonstrated success leading leaders and scaling geographically distributed technical teams in an enterprise technology environment.
• Deep knowledge of data center networking architectures and protocols, including L2/L3, Ethernet switching, VXLAN/EVPN, routing, security, automation, and network operations.
• Experience with AI infrastructure or high-performance networking concepts such as GPU clusters, RDMA/RoCEv2, lossless Ethernet, congestion management, and telemetry is strongly preferred.
• Track record of leading complex proof-of-concept and production deployments and resolving high-impact technical or customer escalations.
• Ability to translate customer needs into solution strategy, product requirements, investment priorities, and clear executive decisions.
• Strong executive communication, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills across customers, partners, engineering, product, sales, and operations.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; an advanced degree is preferred.

Leadership Capabilities

• Customer-centered: Builds credibility with technical and executive stakeholders and anchors decisions in customer outcomes.
• Strategic and operational: Connects long-range portfolio direction with disciplined execution, measurable priorities, and accountability.
• Talent builder: Develops strong leaders, raises the technical bar, and creates an inclusive culture of learning and performance.
• Cross-functional integrator: Aligns teams with different priorities and drives decisions through influence rather than authority alone.
• Direct and decisive: Surfaces risks early, challenges assumptions, and makes sound tradeoffs in ambiguous, high-stakes situations.

What We Can Offer You

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.

Job Level

Director

The expected salary/wage range for this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level.

– United States of America: Annual Salary USD 209,500 - 459,000 in California

The listed salary range reflects base salary. Variable incentives may also be offered.

Information about employee benefits offered in the US can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html

HPE is an Equal Employment Opportunity/ Veterans/Disabled/LGBT employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, or any other protected category, and all decisions we make are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. Our goal is to be one global team that is representative of our customers, in an inclusive environment where we can continue to innovate and grow together.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is EEO Protected Veteran/ Individual with Disabilities

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