Senior Manager, Solution Engineering – Customer Validation & Solution Readiness

Hewlett Packard EnterpriseBengaluru, Karnātaka, Indiafull timeSenior
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Job description

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

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.

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