Leader, Software Engineering

Cisco IT is a transformation engine enabling people to do the best work of their lives. Our vision is to be admired as the world’s best IT organization. We lead with user experience, embrace agile ways of working, drive engineering effectiveness, and deliver with Cloud first, shift left, AI powered technology.

In Finance IT, we deliver the technologies that power Cisco’s Finance and Commercial Processes through scalable and sustainable architectures to drive profitable growth & operational efficiency. The Finance IT organization is a team of fun-loving and motivated individuals working on managing IT architecture, platforms, and engineering services for Cisco core financials area.

When you work with us, you will be part of a highly empowered collaborative

‘FUTURE IT’ team who is passionate about the use of technology to deliver unprecedented business outcomes. You will work with businesses partners, internal and external partners, Cisco’s outsourced partners, and multi-functional teams.

As a Leader, Software Engineering, you will provide transformational leadership to Supply Chain IT Source team responsible for systems and processes that support direct component sourcing, supplier relationships, cost management etc. You will act as agile team manager accountable for program increments planning, maintaining healthy backlog, handling engineering scrum teams, and delivering quality business outcomes.

• Oversee multiple areas within the Source IT team, owning the end-to-end strategy and delivery of capabilities.
• You will collaborate with cross functional teams to understand business needs, build and deliver end to end solutions for business.
• Lead, motivate and drive team to reach the established organization and capability goals via set Agile methodologies and Engineering effectiveness processes.
• Analyse complex business problems and issues using data from internal and external sources to provide insight to decision-makers.
• Stay on top of investments, capacity, and project schedules.
• Lead the organization’s effort to develop and improve operations through efficient and effective integrated processes, implementing common management processes/services to leverage organization resources.
• Lead a geographically distributed team of software engineers, scrum leads and analysts.

Minimum Qualifications (Provide up to five (5) bullet points –

• Bachelors +12 years of related experience or Masters +10 years of related technical experience
• Experience managing software engineering teams in Enterprise Applications, consumer Web or SaaS products.
• Knowledge of Agile Principles and practices.
• Experience in leading teams through change and transformation of tools, processes and business roadmap.
• Experience in Full-stack Engineering, microservice architecture, and large-scale application design and development.
• Experience in Developing applications using Databases like Oracle, MongoDB
• Knowledge of Cloud Technologies & Integration such as Mongo, Kafka, MuleSoft and Boomi.
• Sophisticated SQL knowledge for data analysis and auditing.
• Experience in supporting Customer Operations and Period Close Processes
• Experience in managing large-scale platforms and/or infrastructure.

• Hands on experience with Oracle ERP, particularly in Supply Chain area. Knowledge of other ERP modules is a plus.
• Knowledge / Working experience on AI/ML Concepts.
• Provide thought leadership to team for improving efficiency and productivity via automation and AI.

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Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our technology, tools, and culture pioneered hybrid work trends, allowing all to not only give their best, but be their best.

We understand our outstanding opportunity to bring communities together and at the heart of that is our people. One-third of Cisconians collaborate in our 30 employee resource organizations, called Inclusive Communities, to connect, foster belonging, learn to be informed allies, and make a difference. Dedicated paid time off to volunteer—80 hours each year—allows us to give back to causes we are passionate about, and nearly 86% do!

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