[Hiring] AT&T SE Systems Engineering Director @Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Role Description

As the AT&T Systems Engineering Director, you will lead a team of high-performing Sales Engineers responsible for supporting one of HPE Networking's most strategic customers. This leadership role is accountable for driving technical sales strategy, developing world-class presales talent, and partnering closely with account leadership to accelerate business growth and strengthen executive-level customer relationships.

The successful candidate will combine deep networking and telecommunications expertise with exceptional leadership, business acumen, and customer engagement skills. You will serve as the senior technical leader, ensuring our systems engineering team delivers differentiated customer outcomes through innovative networking, security, AI-driven networking, cloud, and infrastructure solutions.

Working closely with Sales Leadership, Product Management, Services, Channel Partners, and Executive Stakeholders, you will develop and execute technical account strategies, support large and complex opportunities, and foster a high-performance culture that enables growth and customer success.

This role requires the ability to effectively engage customer executives, influence strategic technology decisions, and lead a geographically distributed team through complex sales cycles and transformational initiatives.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in networking, telecommunications, infrastructure, or cloud technologies.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing Systems Engineering, Solutions Engineering, or Presales organizations.
• Demonstrated success supporting large telecommunications providers, preferably AT&T or comparable Tier 1 service providers.
• Experience leading geographically distributed technical teams.
• Proven ability to influence executive stakeholders and participate in strategic customer engagements.
• Strong understanding of enterprise networking, telecom architectures, cloud networking, security, automation, and AI-driven infrastructure solutions.
• Proven track record of supporting large-scale, complex sales opportunities and driving business results.
• University or Bachelor's degree, advanced university or Master's degree preferred.

Requirements

• Strong expertise in Juniper networking technologies and carrier-class networking environments.
• Experience with service provider architectures, WAN, routing, switching, SD-WAN, security, and network automation.
• Deep expertise in service provider networking (MPLS, Segment Routing, BGP, IS-IS, etc.), data center networking (EVPN/VXLAN, leaf‑spine), and campus & branch networking.
• Knowledge of AI-powered networking and cloud-native network operations.
• Experience working within matrixed global organizations.

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic leadership and executive presence
• Customer-first mindset
• Talent development and coaching
• Cross-functional collaboration and influence
• Business and financial acumen
• Innovation and transformational thinking
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Results-oriented execution

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive suite of benefits that supports physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing.
• Personal & Professional Development: Programs catered to helping you reach career goals.
• Unconditional Inclusion: Celebrating individual uniqueness and flexibility to manage work and personal needs.