Software Engineering Technical Leader
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 29, 2026. Cisco Systems scores A on the Alion truth index.
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, design, 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.
Preferred Qualifications
Varies based on the team and business needs | Preferred Qualifications are desired education, experience, and skills that are in addition to Minimum Qualifications.
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era - and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
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