Engineering Senior Director

Overview

Lead a large or broad engineering function within a multifaceted organization, directing diverse engineering teams and setting technical strategy for products, services, systems and solutions.

What you'll do

• Provide direct and ongoing strategic leadership for a department or functional organization of multiple subordinate managers and high-level individual contributors designing and developing engineering solutions across multiple engineering disciplines.
• Create strategic and tactical operations and resource plans, goals, and priorities based on the business and technology roadmap and functional objectives.
• Manage headcount, deliverables, schedules, and costs, ensuring resources are appropriately allocated and goals, objectives, timelines, and budgets are met.
• Engage with program managers, marketing, supply chain, technical leaders and executives to communicate program status, escalate issues, and guide and influence strategic decision-making.
• Manage senior relationships and escalated issues with outsourced partners and suppliers, including expectations for deliverables, product quality, schedules, and costs.
• Ensure the organization effectively leverages outsourced resources.
• Identify opportunities for and drive organizational initiatives and programs supporting business process improvements and cost reductions.
• Provide people-care management for direct reports, including hiring, setting and monitoring annual performance plans, coaching, and career development.
• Drive and foster organization-wide performance standards, expectations, and practices supporting team member and process development.
• Collaborate across functions to deliver multidisciplinary engineering solutions.
• Drive large and complex cross-organizational business initiatives.
• Lead highly-complex multidisciplinary engineering development, support, and improvement activities and organizations.

What you'll need

• First level university degree or equivalent experience.
• Typically 15 or more years of related work experience, including 10 years of people management experience.
• 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 for a wide variety of audiences, including written, verbal, and presentation communication.
• 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 company's policies and processes.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Hybrid role requiring an average of 2 days per week from an HPE office.