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Senior Director Engineering, Solutions Management
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company · 🇺🇸 Sunnyvale, California, United States of America
Sponsorship verdict
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 486 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 167 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company paid sponsored hires in similar roles7 certified filings for “Director, Product Management I” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in CA: $205k–$249k, median $214k. Most were filed at wage level IV (50%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 486 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 167 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
Senior Director Engineering, Solutions Management 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 Senior Director of Solutions Engineering Management will lead the customer-facing technical organization responsible for accelerating adoption of HPE Networking’s Data Center portfolio. This leader will build and scale a high-performing global team that engages customers and strategic design partners from technical discovery and architecture through proof of concept, production deployment, and lifecycle expansion. The role will connect field insight to product and engineering priorities, improve execution across complex customer engagements, and help customers realize business value from modern data center, AI-fabric, and cloud-delivered networking solutions. Key Responsibilities • Set the strategy, operating model, and success measures for the Data Center Solutions Engineering organization in alignment with business, product, and engineering priorities. • Recruit, develop, and lead a diverse, high-performing management and engineering team with strong technical depth, customer orientation, and execution discipline. • Own technical engagement across the customer lifecycle, including discovery, solution architecture, demonstrations, proofs of concept, deployment readiness, production adoption, and complex escalations. • Establish a design-partner model that converts customer requirements, deployment experience, and operational feedback into actionable product and roadmap recommendations. • Partner with Sales, Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, Support, and Services to develop integrated account strategies and remove barriers to adoption. • Guide customers through complex data center and AI networking decisions, including Ethernet fabrics, RDMA/RoCEv2, congestion management, VXLAN/EVPN, automation, observability, and cloud-delivered operations. • Create repeatable architectures, technical playbooks, validation practices, and field enablement that improve solution quality and reduce time from proof of concept to production. • Provide executive-level technical leadership during strategic pursuits, customer reviews, design workshops, and critical issue resolution. • Use business and operational metrics to forecast capacity, prioritize investments, assess pipeline quality, and improve team productivity and customer outcomes. • Represent customer and field perspectives in portfolio planning while clearly communicating technical tradeoffs, delivery risks, and competitive implications to senior leadership. Required Qualifications • Significant leadership experience in Solutions Engineering, Systems Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Engineering, or a closely related customer-facing technical function. • Demonstrated success leading leaders and scaling geographically distributed technical teams in an enterprise technology environment. • Deep knowledge of data center networking architectures and protocols, including