Software Engineering Technical Leader

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Responsibilities

• ▹Develop software consistent with Cisco Design Thinking Principles, with simplification and UX at its core, using secure coding practices and ensuring user privacy
• ▹Partner with design and product management to create the right solution for customers
• ▹Create technical design documentation and contribute to user documentation
• ▹Bring new ideas for product innovation and improve software development processes
• ▹Lead major business projects impacting a region or entire function, proving the model on Isovalent first before extending it across broader SBG engineering
• ▹Build long-term relationships with key stakeholders, including the central program management org and product management, who get a shared view and control across engineering tooling
• ▹Translate the regional or functional strategic vision into a technical vision with clear engineering priorities
• ▹Drive large features from technical design through completion
• ▹Lead the development and implementation of software development lifecycle and agile engineering strategies, including tooling and integrations that connect ticketing systems, meeting recordings and transcripts, and milestone data into a shared source of truth
• ▹Treat the internal status/reporting system as a product with real users (engineers, program managers, leadership)
• ▹Drive product success through metrics and influence on adoption and direction, including cutting the time spent aligning ahead of cross-team commits
• ▹Write and set the standard for clean, functional code
• ▹Develop and drive support for processes for issue identification, sustainable response, proactive tooling and continuous improvement of production systems
• ▹Communicate product or program priorities, deadlines and shifts in requirements in the context of engineering priorities and user needs
• ▹Negotiate trade-offs in timing, design and specifications to meet the needs of users and cross-functional partners
• ▹Lead, mentor and influence senior engineers
• ▹Improve knowledge-sharing by building systems that make information from meeting recordings, transcripts and status materials searchable, connected and useful to engineering and product teams

Requirements

• ▹Bachelor's + 12 years of related experience, or Master's + 8 years, or PhD + 5 years
• ▹Specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in the job family, wide-ranging experience and advanced technical acumen serving as an advisor to management

Nice to have

• ▹Experience designing and building internal engineering tools, integrations, APIs or data pipelines across systems such as Jira, GitHub, CDET, collaboration platforms and meeting recording or transcription services
• ▹Experience turning fragmented operational data into reliable, searchable and actionable views of milestones, dependencies and delivery status
• ▹A track record of treating internal developer or process tooling as a product, with defined users, a clear UX standard and measures of adoption or impact
• ▹Comfort serving as technical owner of a cross-functional initiative with engineering, product management and central PM teams
• ▹Experience connecting to existing enterprise processes and systems rather than creating parallel sources of information
• ▹Experience proving an approach with one team, measuring its impact and scaling it across a broader organization

Soft skills

About the company

Cisco has been innovating for 40 years so that data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era and beyond.