This role has been designed as Hybrid with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.
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Job Family Definition:
The job family spans across multiple engineering disciplines. Work consists of designing, developing, analyzing, troubleshooting and debugging systems, software and solutions for research and/or research development of product, services, and solutions for HPE s portfolio. Requires a broad knowledge and application of engineering disciplines, methodologies and tools.
Job Family Definition for Executive Levels only: Directs and manages a diverse team of engineering professionals performing research, development, design and/or implementation of products, services, solutions for the company s portfolio. Responsible for creating and communicating technical strategy within the organization and/or across the function.
Management Level Definition:
Leads a large Engineering organization focused on Quality Assurance for new development of Hybrid Cloud and Storage products. Responsible for the overall products quality, which includes, strategic partnership and integration of activities with other major organizational functions. Fully accountable for the success of the organization. Influences strategy and sets policy and direction. Acts as a key advisor to executive management in influencing the strategic direction of the business.
Responsibilities:
- Provides direct and ongoing strategic leadership for the Hybrid Cloud Quality Assurance organization including multiple subordinate managers and high-level individual contributors designing and developing quality systems utilizing multiple engineering disciplines for release of new products, software, and solutions.
- Creates strategic and tactical operations and resource plans, goals, and priorities for assigned organization based on business and technology roadmap and functional objectives.
- Manages headcount, deliverables, schedules, and costs for the organization, ensuring that resources are appropriately allocated and that goals, objectives, timelines, and budgets are met in accordance with organizational metrics and business plans.
- Engages with program managers, marketing, supply chain, technical leaders and executives to communicate program status, escalate issues, and guide and influence strategic decision-making
- Manages senior relationships and escalated issues with outsourced partners and suppliers, including setting expectations regarding deliverables, product quality, schedules, and costs; ensures that organization is effectively leveraging outsourced resources.
- Identifies opportunities for and drives organizational initiatives and programs to support business process improvements and cost reductions.
- Provides overall people-care management for direct reports, including hiring, setting and monitoring of annual performance plans, coaching, and career development; drives and fosters organization-wide performance standards, expectations, and practices to support ongoing team member and process development.
Education and Experience Required:
- First level university degree or equivalent experience required. May have advanced university degree.
- 15 or more years of related work experience in Quality Assurance engineering , including 10 years of people management experience.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Strong software development skills, including automation and tooling related to systems under test
- Ability to apply Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate delivery of products while increasing quality
- Strong leadership skills, including coaching, team-building, and conflict resolution.
- Organizational and strategic management skills, including budget and business planning and forecasting.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
- Ability to manage human capital across multiple geographies and organizations to drive workforce development and achieve desired results.
- Advanced communication skills catered to a wide variety of audiences. (e.g. written, verbal, presentation); mastery in English and local language.
- Extensive business acumen, technical knowledge, and industry experience encompassing one or more engineering, technology, and product domains.
- Advanced multi-tasking and prioritization skills.
- Advanced relationship management skills, including partnering and consulting with senior management and executive roles for internal and external partners.
- Good understanding of the companys policies and processes.
Impact/Scope:
- Collaborates across functions to deliver multidisciplinary engineering solutions.
- Typically interacts with high-level Individual Contributors, Managers, Directors, and VPs and SVPs for internal and external suppliers, partners, and customers.
- Drives large and complex cross-organizational business initiatives.
Complexity:
- Leads highly-complex multidisciplinary engineering development, support, and improvement activities and organizations.
- Anticipates operational needs and impact on the business and function or department.
Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum Development, Analytical Thinking, Bias, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity
