Director, Software Engineer- Lustre

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity, and they are seeking a highly experienced Sr. Lustre Leader for their new internal Lustre team. The role involves driving software and hardware product to market while leading and managing Lean-Agile transformation initiatives critical for the organization's success.

Responsibilities:

• Play an instrumental role in driving software and hardware product to market while leading and managing a complex set of Lean-Agile transformation initiatives that are critical for successful transformation of the Organization
• Collaborate with our Product Marketing team to define and prioritize feature and solution requirements
• Responsible for defining engineering program goals, spanning the planning, execution and monitoring of such goals
• Lead in a high-powered team delivering an industry changing product within an extremely high growth sector of the tech industry
• Ensure the team delivers the end-to-end solution to the customer in working closely with the Product Management to validate that the Monitoring and Management solutions being deployed actually solve the right problem and in an intuitive manner for the end customer
• Build schedules and drive engineering programs in collaboration with business partners; on schedule and quality
• Assess development program risks and communicate changes to appropriate stakeholders
• Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed on time, cost, and quality parameters
• Recommend strategies & lead transformational projects to drive efficiency & implementation
• Coach functional teams on new ways of doing business and influence them for a sustainable shift in behaviors and mindsets

Requirements:

• 15 plus years of Lustre development leadership experience
• Recognized expertise within the Lustre community
• Proven track record in building and leading technical teams
• Ability to recruit Lustre developers and other technical resources from the Lustre community
• Experience in commercializing file products from inception to completion
• The candidate should be able to present technical concepts and industry updates to our senior leadership
• Collaborate with our Product Marketing team to define and prioritize feature and solution requirements
• Responsible for defining engineering program goals, spanning the planning, execution and monitoring of such goals
• Lead in a high-powered team delivering an industry changing product within an extremely high growth sector of the tech industry
• Ensure the team delivers the end-to-end solution to the customer in working closely with the Product Management to validate that the Monitoring and Management solutions being deployed actually solve the right problem and in an intuitive manner for the end customer
• Build schedules and drive engineering programs in collaboration with business partners; on schedule and quality
• Assess development program risks and communicate changes to appropriate stakeholders
• Rigorously manages scope to ensure commitments are achieved within agreed on time, cost, and quality parameters
• Recommend strategies & lead transformational projects to drive efficiency & implementation
• Coach functional teams on new ways of doing business and influence them for a sustainable shift in behaviors and mindsets