Director of Software Engineering - Data Center Networks , Core WAN & DDI

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic technology projects with enterprise-wide impact and advise on development strategy across projects.
• Drive safe, reuse-first adoption of enterprise-authorized AI in infrastructure analysis and workflows, with human validation and sensitive-data safeguards.
• Partner across platforms to architect and implement changes that resolve issues and modernize technology and processes.
• Provide organizational thought leadership and consider staffing, budget, and profit-and-loss implications.
• Set portfolio-level guardrails for AI-assisted engineering and automation, ensuring traceability, auditability, resilience, security, and risk alignment.

Required qualifications

• Formal infrastructure engineering training or certification and 10+ years of applied experience.
• Extensive experience in at least two infrastructure engineering areas, such as networking, hardware, databases, storage, automation, resilience, or performance assessment.
• Experience leading safe enterprise AI adoption in infrastructure workflows, including validation and data-sensitivity awareness.
• Knowledge of multiple infrastructure technologies and programming languages, with extensive automation experience.
• Project delivery and budget management experience; ability to partner with stakeholders and maintain risk and controls governance.
• Experience owning enterprise WAN/connectivity platforms, including routing, resilience, capacity management, and secure connectivity.
• Ability to set technical direction and lead delivery from architecture through production rollout.
• Experience modernizing platforms and improving reliability through incident management, remediation, and runbook maturity.

Preferred qualifications

• Hands-on automation for validation, monitoring/telemetry, reporting, and workflow efficiency is preferred.
• Effective collaboration with security, risk/control, peer technology, and business stakeholders is preferred.
• Vendor strategy and third-party relationship management experience is preferred.
• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, is preferred; an advanced degree is a plus.
• Relevant networking, cloud, or security certifications are preferred.

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