Software Engineering Technical Leader

Software Engineering Technical Leader develops software consistent with Cisco Design Thinking Principles with a focus on simplification and UX (User Experience) at its core, using secure coding practices, ensuring user privacy, and following software development best practices. Partners with other teams including design and product management to create the right solution for the customers. Creates technical design documentation to be used by the team as well as contributing to user documentation to be used by end users. Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers. Brings new ideas for product innovation and helps improve software development processes.

What You'll Do:
. Recognized as an expert within Cisco.
. Proactively identifies and participates in the resolution of complex problems that impact the direction of the business.
. Develops and delivers innovative strategies that benefit customers and/or clients.
. Leads major business projects which impact a region or entire function.
. Contributes to the development of annual organizational objectives/priorities.
. Builds and maintains long-term relationships with key stakeholders to ensure products and services reflect the needs and direction of the business.
. Translates and influences the regional or functional strategic vision into a technical vision with clear engineering priorities, ensuring understanding and alignment across teams.
. May lead projects that span the business segment, function or region.
. May drive large features from technical design through completion.
. Leads the development and implementation of software development lifecycle and agile engineering strategies across applicable teams in anticipation of the changing software development environment.
. Influences technical direction and deliverables across the function.
. Recognizes and makes trade-offs with respect to the whole system and defines new product categories.
. Leads design choices within the context of all Cisco offerings.
. Drives product success through creating metrics and influencing product adoption and direction.
. Writes and sets the standard for functional clean code.
. Develops and drives utilization and support for processes for issue identification and sustainable response, proactive tooling, and continuous improvement for production systems.
. Industry or thought leader on scale, performance, or design patterns.
. May represent or present team outputs at external events.
. Communicates product or program priorities, deadlines, and shifts in requirements in the context of engineering priorities and user needs.
. Negotiates and drives trade-offs in timing, build, and specifications to meet the needs of users and cross-functional partners.
. Leads, mentors, and influences senior engineers.
. Improves knowledge sharing processes.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors + 12 years of related experience, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience.

• Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in primary job family or field of specialization has a wide-range of experiences and advanced technical acumen serving as an advisor to management.

• Deep domain expertise with strategic advisory skills, enabling effective guidance to leadership and alignment of initiatives with Cisco business priorities.

• Strong cross-functional leadership and execution capability, with the ability to translate complex business needs into clear plans, influence stakeholders, and deliver large-scale outcomes.