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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.\nJob Description:\nThe 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.\nThe 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.\nThis 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.\nThe role is expected to move beyond reporting and analysis to identify trends, challenge assumptions, evaluate alternatives, and recommend actions.\nKey Responsibilities\nWorkforce & Capacity Strategy\nOwn and maintain the HPC Software & Storage Engineering headcount forecast, including monthly actuals, forecasts, hiring plans, attrition assumptions, open positions, and organizational changes.\nDevelop and implement multi-year workforce and capacity models aligned with technology roadmaps, product commitments, platform schedules, sustaining requirements, and strategic priorities.\nWork with the directors on future engineering commitments into required skills, capacity, and headcount.\nIdentify capacity gaps, skill gaps, organizational constraints, and areas of over- or under-investment.\nEvaluate workforce allocation across new product development, platform enablement, sustaining, technical debt, and strategic initiatives.\nDevelop recommendations for resource reallocation and investment based on organizational priorities.\nModel alternative workforce scenarios to support leadership decisions.\nCAPEX, OPEX & Investment Strategy\nLead and implement the planning and management process for HPC Software & Storage Engineering CAPEX and OPEX.\nPartner with Finance and engineering leadership to develop annual budgets, long-range plans, forecasts, and investment scenarios.\nMaintain visibility into actual and forecast spending relative to plan.\nIdentify material variances, emerging risks, and opportunities and recommend corrective actions.\nConnect engineering investments to strategic priorities, roadmap deliverables, and expected business outcomes.\nEvaluate the financial implications of alternative roadmap, staffing, sourcing, and organizational decisions.\nProvide leadership with recommendations regarding investment tradeoffs when resources are constrained.\nSustaining & Support Economics\nRepresent HPC Software R&D’s interests and requirements in defining software support policies, support durations, sustaining models, and funding requirements.\nEstablish an integrated view of the engineering resources consumed by sustaining and support obligations.\nEvaluate sustaining headcount requirements against funding and capacity provided by the Support organization.\nQuantify the cost to Engineering of delivering long-term product support and identify unfunded or underfunded obligations.\nAssess whether support funding and staffing are commensurate with the engineering effort required to meet customer and contractual commitments.\nDevelop and implement agreed-upon recommendations regarding support duration, funding models, staffing levels, product lifecycle transitions, and end-of-support decisions.\nIdentify legacy products or commitments consuming disproportionate engineering capacity and make the associated investment tradeoffs visible to leadership.\nPartner with Support, Product Management, Finance, and Engineering to establish sustainable support and funding models.\nPortfolio Investment Strategy\nDevelop an integrated view of where HPC Software & Storage Engineering resources and dollars are invested across the portfolio.\nEvaluate investment across strategic development, platform enablement, sustaining, technical debt, infrastructure, and other engineering commitments.\nAssess whether current investment aligns with the organization’s strategic priorities and future roadmap.\nIdentify areas where investment should be increased, maintained, consolidated, reduced, or exited.\nEvaluate the opportunity cost of continuing lower-priority or legacy investments.\nProvide fact-based recommendations to support portfolio prioritization and resource allocation.\nEstablish mechanisms to measure whether investments are producing the intended engineering and business outcomes.\nLong-Range Strategic Planning\nTranslate the HPC & AI technology and product strategy into multi-year workforce, capacity, and financial requirements.\nDevelop 12-, 24-, and 36-month views of organizational demand and investment requirements.\nIdentify future resource constraints and investment needs early enough to enable leadership action.\nPartner with engineering and product leaders to understand upcoming technologies, platforms, and roadmap transitions and their implications for the organization.\nIntegrate workforce, financial, sustaining, and portfolio assumptions into long-range planning.\nDevelop scenarios that enable leadership to understand the consequences of alternative strategic choices.\nOrganizational & Scenario Modeling\nDevelop organizational scenarios to evaluate alternative structures, sourcing approaches, geographic strategies, and resource allocations.\nAssess the financial, capacity, execution, and organizational implications of proposed changes.\nModel make/buy/partner decisions where appropriate.\nProvide objective analysis to support organizational design and investment decisions.\nStrategic Analysis & Executive Decision Support\nServe as a strategic thought partner to the VP and leadership team on organizational, workforce, financial, and investment decisions.\nDevelop analyses that connect headcount, spending, engineering capacity, roadmap commitments, sustaining obligations, and business priorities.\nIdentify trends and emerging risks before they materially affect execution.\nFrame complex decisions by clearly articulating alternatives, tradeoffs, risks, and recommended actions.\nChallenge assumptions and provide an independent, data-driven perspective.\nDevelop concise executive-level materials for strategic planning, business reviews, portfolio reviews, and investment decisions.\nTrack major strategic decisions and evaluate whether the expected outcomes are being achieved.\nOrganizational Planning & Operating Rhythm\nEstablish and maintain a consistent operating cadence for workforce, financial, portfolio, and strategic planning.\nCreate a trusted source of information for organizational capacity, investment, commitments, and risks.\nImprove forecasting accuracy, data quality, and visibility across the organization.\nEnsure leadership decisions are translated into updated workforce and investment plans.\nDrive follow-through on actions resulting from strategic and investment reviews.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nThe Strategist creates the fact-base and strategic insight that allow the VP and leadership team to answer:\nWhere are our people and dollars invested today?\nAre those investments aligned with our highest strategic priorities?\nWhat capabilities and capacity will we need over the next three years?\nWhere are we over-invested or under-invested?\nHow much engineering capacity is being consumed by sustaining and legacy commitments?\nAre our support obligations appropriately funded?\nWhat are we receiving in return for the resources Engineering dedicates to Support?\nWhich investments should we increase, maintain, consolidate, reduce, or stop?\nWhat is the opportunity cost of continuing existing commitments?\nWhat are the workforce and financial implications of our roadmap?\nIf our available resources change, what should we prioritize and what should we stop doing?\nSuccess is not measured by producing reports. It is measured by enabling better decisions, earlier identification of risks and investment gaps, stronger alignment of resources to strategy, and improved return on the organization’s engineering investment.\nQualifications\nSignificant experience in strategy, engineering operations, business planning, financial planning, portfolio management, or related leadership roles within a complex technology organization.\nDemonstrated ability to advise and influence senior executives and engineering leaders.\nStrong business and financial acumen, including workforce modeling, CAPEX/OPEX planning, forecasting, investment analysis, and scenario modeling.\nExperience translating technology and product strategies into workforce and investment requirements.\nStrong analytical capability with demonstrated ability to synthesize complex organizational and financial information into actionable recommendations.\nAbility to understand complex engineering organizations, technology roadmaps, and product lifecycle considerations.\nExceptional executive communication and presentation skills.\nAbility to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.\nDemonstrated judgment and comfort challenging assumptions and presenting alternative perspectives to senior leadership.\nExperience in large-scale software, infrastructure, systems, HPC, AI, or enterprise technology environments preferred.\nLeadership Characteristics\nThe ideal candidate combines strategic thinking, business and financial acumen, analytical rigor, and a strong understanding of how engineering organizations operate.\nThis individual is intellectually curious, comfortable working with ambiguity, and able to move fluidly between detailed analysis and executive-level strategic thinking. They do not simply report what is happening; they determine what it means, why it matters, and what leadership should do about it.\nThe Strategist’s central question is:\nAre we investing our people, dollars, and engineering capacity in the right places to deliver our strategy-and if not, what should we change?\nAccessibility\nHPE is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible workplace and encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities. If you believe you require accommodation during any stage of the application or interview process, please submit your request by completing our secure form linked here.\nNote: This option is reserved for applicants needing assistance/reasonable accommodation related to a disability.\nWhat We Can Offer You:\nHealth & Wellbeing\nWe strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.\nPersonal & Professional Development\nWe also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. 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