Sr. Director Engineering - Subscriber Solutions

ADTRAN, Inc.; Huntsville (TN); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Adtran, Inc. in Huntsville, AL seeks an experienced Subscriber Solutions engineering director to lead a multi-team group responsible for software development, technology research, testing and related engineering services in areas including RG/AP with WiFi mesh, enterprise routers and switches, and VoIP gateways.

This position requires strong communication across technical and business inputs. You will collaborate with PU leadership to ensure alignment with product strategy, delivery schedules,

Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-team engineering groups.
• Strong background in embedded systems and software architecture.
• Proven ability to manage budgets, timelines, and stakeholder expectations.

Responsibilities

• Establish a vision informed by business needs, PU strategy, and customer requirements.
• Collaborate with PU leadership, product management, sales, and operations to align scope and scheduling.
• Ensure appropriate management structure and key roles within the team.
• Support team needs including budgets, capex, tools, and staffing.
• Lead design discussions with architects and senior developers to drive optimal solutions.
• Identify gaps within ART, PU, or across departments and bridge them.
• Maintain relationships with external partners for favorable terms.
• Develop yearly and quarterly budgets for the department.
• Provide high-level feasibility and tradeoff assessments to leadership.

Skills

Embedded systems development

Software architecture design

Engineering management

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Welcome! Our Growth is Creating Great Opportunities! Our team is expanding, and we want to hire the most talented people we can. Continued success depends on it! Thanks for your interest in working on our team!

Job Description

The Subscriber Solutions engineering director is a leadership and decision-making role that demands overarching responsibility for a multi-team engineering department responsible for software development, technology research, testing, and related engineering services in areas including RG/AP with WiFi mesh, enterprise routers and switches, and VoIP gateways. This role requires applying strong communication skills based on a mix of dynamic technical and business inputs. The product lines in scope are part of a larger solution, Intellifi, which integrates cloud-based network management systems with end-user wired or wireless networks to meet the needs of both end-users and service providers. This requires collaboration with the Software Platform Product Unit (PU) to ensure the best solutions and alignment are achieved.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish a vision based on multiple business and technical inputs, including organizational and product unit (PU)- level strategy, customer requirements, and technology requirements, to inform ongoing planning and enable the engineering teams to execute deliverables.
• Collaborate with PU leadership, product management, sales, operations, and other stakeholders to maintain alignment with scope, priority, and scheduling options
• Ensuring the appropriate management and key roles structure are in place
• Understand and support team & individual needs, which may include financial budget, capex expenditures, tools, and workforce size
• Facilitate technical and design discussions with various groups of architects and senior developers to help drive the best solutions and ideas forward
• Help identify and bridge gaps within the ART, PU, or across company departments
• Establish and maintain relationships with our key external partners to negotiate the best technical, commercial, and scheduling terms
• Establish and maintain yearly and quarterly departmental budgets
• Provide product management & PU leadership with high-level feasibility and tradeoff assessments
• Manage the correct mix of engineering velocity across key investment areas
• Staying informed with related new and emerging technologies
• Ensure the system is applying best practices to meet solution quality and security requirements
• Engineering arm for the ART business owner team
• Shield the engineering organization from external noise and distraction

Requirements

• Former engineering management experience
• Knowledge & experience with embedded system development/integration & related software architecture design
• Knowledge & experience with all the key data and telecommunications building blocks (equipment, protocols, management, physical technologies, etc.) required for the residential user, IT administrator, and service provider to establish and maintain public or private internet service
• Critical thinking skills and the ability to work well under pressure
• Good communication skills

Adtran is a leading global provider of fiber-based networking solutions and SaaS applications, focused on the broadband access market. Our comprehensive portfolio spans from the metro core to the customer premises, enabling network providers to deliver Gigabit broadband to every home and business. Our vision is to enable a fully connected world where the power to communicate is available to everyone, everywhere. At Adtran, we believe in our people. With a diverse and inclusive team spread across the globe, our culture embraces creativity and seeks innovation and quality in everything we do. Built on a foundation of communication, trust, collaboration, and an entrepreneurial spirit enables us to be a global technology leader and a strong customer advocate. Adtran began operations in January 1986. Headquartered in Huntsville, Alabama, Adtran is located in Cummings Research Park - the second-largest research park in the U.S. and fourth-largest in the world. Our mailing address is 901 Explorer Boulevard, Huntsville, Alabama, 35806. Adtran, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Adtran Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADTN and FSE: QH9). Find out more at adtran.com, or follow our story on LinkedIn and Twitter.