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Partners with other teams including design and product management to create the right solution for the customers. Creates technical design documentation to be used by the team as well as contributing to user documentation to be used by end users. Debugs and addresses software issues during development and in production systems to support customers. Brings new ideas for product innovation and helps improve software development processes.What You’ll Do:\nRecognized as an expert within Cisco.\nProactively identifies and participates in the resolution of complex problems that impact the direction of the business.\nDevelops and delivers innovative strategies that benefit customers and/or clients.\nLeads major business projects which impact a region or entire function.\nContributes to the development of annual organizational objectives/priorities.\nBuilds and maintains long-term relationships with key stakeholders to ensure products and services reflect the needs and direction of the business.\nTranslates and influences the regional or functional strategic vision into a technical vision with clear engineering priorities, ensuring understanding and alignment across teams.\nMay lead projects that span the business segment, function or region.\nMay drive large features from technical design through completion.\nLeads the development and implementation of software development lifecycle and agile engineering strategies across applicable teams in anticipation of the changing software development environment.\nInfluences technical direction and deliverables across the function.\nRecognizes and makes trade-offs with respect to the whole system and defines new product categories.\nLeads design choices within the context of all Cisco offerings.\nDrives product success through creating metrics and influencing product adoption and direction.\nWrites and sets the standard for functional clean code.\nDevelops and drives utilization and support for processes for issue identification and sustainable response, proactive tooling, and continuous improvement for production systems.\nIndustry or thought leader on scale, performance, or design patterns.\nMay represent or present team outputs at external events.\nCommunicates product or program priorities, deadlines, and shifts in requirements in the context of engineering priorities and user needs.\nNegotiates and drives trade-offs in timing, design, and specifications to meet the needs of users and cross-functional partners.\nLeads, mentors, and influences senior engineers.\nImproves knowledge sharing processes.\nMinimum Qualifications:\nBachelors + 12 years of related experience, or Masters + 8 years of related experience, or PhD + 5 years of related experience.\nRequires 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.\nPreferred Qualifications\nVaries based on the team and business needs | Preferred Qualifications are desired education, experience, and skills that are in addition to Minimum Qualifications.\nWhy Cisco?\nAt 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.\nFueled 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.\nWe are Cisco, and our power starts with you.\nDisclaimer\nTo ensure that we hire the best talent in the right way, we follow a strict hiring process and recently, Cisco has been made aware of fraudulent recruiters claiming to be from the company. 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