HPC Software & Storage Engineering Strategist

HPC Software & Storage Engineering Strategist    This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with a requirement that you will work on average 2 days per week 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: The HPC Software & Storage Engineering Strategist is a senior individual contributor reporting directly to the Vice President of HPC Software & Storage Engineering. This role serves as a strategic advisor and operating partner to the VP and leadership team, providing analysis, planning, and organizational insight to inform workforce, investment, portfolio, and operating decisions. The Strategist will develop and maintain an integrated, forward-looking view of the organization’s workforce, financial investments, engineering capacity, product, and sustaining obligations. The role will translate business and technology strategy into resource and investment requirements and provide leadership with clear recommendations regarding where to invest, rebalance, consolidate, or reduce investment. This individual will work across Engineering, Finance, Product Management, Business Planning, Support, and other key stakeholders to ensure organizational resources are aligned with the HPC & AI strategy and roadmap. The role is expected to move beyond reporting and analysis to identify trends, challenge assumptions, evaluate alternatives, and recommend actions. Key Responsibilities Workforce & Capacity Strategy • Own and maintain the HPC Software & Storage Engineering headcount forecast, including monthly actuals, forecasts, hiring plans, attrition assumptions, open positions, and organizational changes. • Develop and implement multi-year workforce and capacity models aligned with technology roadmaps, product commitments, platform schedules, sustaining requirements, and strategic priorities. • Work with the directors on future engineering commitments into required skills, capacity, and headcount. • Identify capacity gaps, skill gaps, organizational constraints, and areas of over- or under-investment. • Evaluate workforce allocation across new product development, platform enablement, sustaining, technical debt, and strategic initiatives. • Develop recommendations for resource reallocation and investment based on organizational priorities. • Model alternative workforce scenarios to support leadership decisions. CAPEX, OPEX & Investment Strategy • Lead and implement the planning and management process for HPC Software & Storage Engineering CAPEX and OPEX. • Partner with Finance and engineering leadership to develop annual budgets, long-range plans, forecasts, and investment scenarios. • Maintain visibility into actual and forecast spending relative to plan. • Identify material variances, emerging risks, and opportunities and recommend corrective actions. • Connect engineering investments to strategic priorities, roadmap deliverables, and expected business outcomes. • Evaluate the financial implications of alternative roadmap, staffing, sourcing, and organizational decisions. • Provide leadership with recommendations regarding investment tradeoffs whe