Senior Manager, Solution Engineering – Customer Validation & Solution Readiness

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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

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