Engineering Transformation Manager
San Jose, CA 
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Posted 9 days ago
Job Description
Who You'll Work With

Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) is at the forefront of developing solutions for addressing the security challenges of our customers. With annual revenue exceeding $2B, it is one of the fastest growing businesses at Cisco.

The Cloud Security group within SBG focuses on developing cloud-delivered security solutions (SaaS based) in a platform-centric approach.

Our group values and nurtures innovation in an incredibly powerful and high-growth domain. Our vision is to build innovative security solutions in a cloud-delivered way with the utmost simplicity - disrupt the industry's thinking around how deep and how broad a security solution can be while keeping it easy to deploy and simple to manage. We are at an exciting stage of this journey with high growth and looking for a capable Engineering Transformation Manager.


Who You Are

As an Engineering Transformation Manager in Cloud Security Engineering, you will be working very closely with technical experts supporting a broad coalition of Cloud Security Engineers and our leadership teams.

You're passionate about building security into products and have a strong focus on tools and process to make it happen. You enjoy working technically innovative environment that's fast paced, yet you take time to establish relationships and drive consensus. You're enterprising, calling out issues you see and collaborating to find solutions. Self-motivated, you drive issues to closure, while being willing to roll-up your sleeves when needed. You focus on process, constantly driving to make things better. As the most organized person in the room, with a persuasive communication style, you excel at bringing people together in a shared understanding and vision.


Basic Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, Computer Science or related technical field; MSEE, MSCS or MS## or another technical field preferred
  • 5+ years working with Jira/Confluence, including building dashboards and integrations with other tools.
  • 3+ years in a Program Management position
  • 10+ years or more experience in the networking/technology industry

Preferred Qualifications

  • Strong preference for program management experience within software cloud environments; solid track record of successful program management; Demonstrated history and ability to take a leadership role in leading programs.
  • Thorough understanding of Security principles.
  • Fine-tuned understanding of and expertise in Lean Enterprise / Agile / Kanban practices and supporting tools
  • Ability to understand, discuss / communicate technical concepts, with both technical and non-technical individuals. Comfortable interpreting data to translate and present as business insights.
  • Ability to interact with the executive team to provide timely/critical information and data.
  • Able to communicate well with multi-functional team members; able to efficiently collaborate with and influence team members to achieve project goals and contribute positively to the engineering community environment.
  • Strong collaborative, coordination and facilitation skills, and enjoy working with geographically distributed teams.

What You'll Do
  • Lead business initiatives and multi-functional programs for the successful delivery
  • Craft executive summaries and dashboards from the various project status updates and data insights. Craft powerful presentations to covert an idea into a business narrative
  • Define the objectives, agenda, and goals for the key business meetings such as staff meetings, QBRs, and leadership workshops.
  • Partner with a global community of engineering leaders to understand the product strategy, roadmap commitments, and targeted customer outcomes for the interlocks.
  • Believe in the value of making customer success and work with the product teams to improve the NPS scores.
  • Influence teams to shift to consistent best processes and practices. Design and own an efficient operations cadence model for our Cloud Security organization. Build the process and tools to drive transparency and alignment across a large group of teams delivering cloud solutions. Maintain a knowledge base that will be used in audits as well as to give a broad overview of the workings of our organization.
  • Ensure clear communication at all levels of the organization: status, roadblocks and needs of the team, as well as recognizing and celebrating successes.
  • Track budget needs - headcount, opex, capex, cogs, etc.
  • Lead the quarterly goals review process and continuous updates. Drive retrospectives and measurable process improvement efforts.

Why Cisco Secure

We're global, we're adaptable, we're diverse, and our security portfolio is as extensive as it is groundbreaking. Have you heard of Threat, Detection & Response, Zero Trust by Duo, Common Services Engineering, or Cloud & Network Security? Those are only a few of our product teams! The only thing we're missing is YOU.

Join an enterprise security leader with a start-up culture, committed to driving innovation and giving you the opportunity to make an impact. We #InnovateToWin and we know we're better together, that's why we're dedicated to inclusivity, collaboration, and diversity in everything we do.

We're proud to be the Best Small and Mid-Size Enterprises Security Solution Cisco Secure continues to grow and evolve year after year with 100% of Fortune 100 Companies using our products, and we're excited to see the new heights we'll reach with your passion for security, your customer focus, and your desire to change things up!

There are so many amazing reasons to join Cisco. Learn more here!


 

Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
3+ years
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