Senior Manager, Solution Engineering – Customer Validation & Solution Readiness

Senior Manager, Solution Engineering – Customer Validation & Solution Readiness
This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work 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:
What you'll do:
Key Responsibilities
Solution Delivery & Execution Leadership
Lead a team of engineers responsible for validating networking solutions and customer deployment use cases across multiple product portfolios.
Execute solution validation strategies and roadmaps aligned with organizational and business objectives.
Drive predictable delivery of committed releases, ensuring quality, scalability, and customer readiness.
Establish operational discipline through project planning, risk management, milestone tracking, and execution reviews.
Champion automation-first methodologies to improve test efficiency, coverage, scalability, and engineering productivity.
Ensure customer use cases are qualified from inception through deployment readiness.
Customer & Solution Focus
Develop a deep understanding of customer deployment environments, networking architectures, and operational challenges.
Partner with Product Management, Architecture, Development, Sales, and Field Engineering teams to ensure solutions align with customer business and technical requirements.
Drive customer-focused engineering practices that improve adoption, quality, and customer satisfaction.
Evaluate emerging customer requirements and market trends to influence validation priorities and solution readiness activities.
Organizational Leadership
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of technical professionals while fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Establish goals, performance expectations, and development plans for direct reports.
Identify and develop technical leaders and subject matter experts within the organization.
Drive employee engagement, retention, recognition, and career growth initiatives.
Promote diversity, inclusion, and professional development across the team.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Partner closely with Directors, Architects, Product Managers, and Engineering leaders to align execution with strategic objectives.
Facilitate coordination across multiple teams to remove execution barriers and accelerate delivery.
Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans to leadership and key stakeholders.
Support business planning, resource allocation, and prioritization discussions.
Operational Excellence
Define and manage key performance indicators (KPIs) and operational metrics.
Manage resource planning, infrastructure utilization, and project prioritization.
Optimize engineering investments, test infrastructure, and operational expenses.
Establish best practices for solution validation, release readiness, and quality assurance.
Proactively identify and mitigate project and business risks.
Innovation & Technology Leadership
Promote innovation through automation, AI-assisted engineering, virtualization, and cloud-native validation methodologies.
Encourage participation in technical communities, patents, standards bodies, certifications, and industry forums.
Drive adoption of modern engineering tools, frameworks, and methodologies that improve organizational effectiveness.
Stay current with networking industry trends, competitive technologies, and emerging customer requirements.
Required Skills & Competencies
Leadership
Proven experience managing high-performing engineering teams.
Strong ability to motivate, coach, and develop technical professionals.
Demonstrated success leading complex engineering initiatives and cross-functional programs.
Excellent organizational, planning, and execution skills.
Strong stakeholder management and collaboration abilities.
Business & Communication
Ability to translate technical priorities into business outcomes.
Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
Strong customer-facing and executive communication capabilities.
Ability to influence decision-making without direct authority.
Experience balancing technical priorities, resources, schedules, and business objectives.
Technical Expertise
Strong understanding of:
IP/MPLS Routing
EVPN-VXLAN
Data Center Networking
Service Provider Architectures
Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF, ISIS)
MPLS, Segment Routing, L2VPN, L3VPN
Multicast, NAT, GRE, IPSec and Security technologies
Layer 2 Technologies (LAG, MC-LAG, Virtual Chassis)
CLOS and Spine-Leaf Architectures
High Availability and Resiliency Designs
Network Automation Frameworks
Python and API-driven Network Automation
Containerization and Kubernetes
What you need to bring:
Experience & Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related field. Master's degree preferred.
15+ years of experience in networking, telecommunications, or software engineering.
5+ years of experience leading and managing technical engineering teams.
Proven track record delivering networking products, customer solution validations, and release readiness programs.
Strong expertise in Juniper networking technologies and customer deployment models.
Experience working across global engineering organizations.
Familiarity with AI-assisted engineering and automation practices is highly desirable.
Experience with AI-assisted engineering practices and tools is highly desirable.
Experience with competitive networking platforms such as Cisco, Arista, Nokia, or equivalent.
Industry certifications such as JNCIP, JNCIE, CCNP, CCIE, or equivalent are highly desirable.
Accessibility
HPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here.
Note: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.
What We Can Offer You:
Health & Wellbeing
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