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Who We Are

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Job Description

Aruba is an HPE Company, and a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. Helping some of the largest companies in the world modernize their networks to meet the demands of a digital future, Aruba is redefining the Intelligent Edge – and creating new customer experiences across intelligent spaces and digital workspaces. Join us redefine what's next for you.

At Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Senior Hardware Engineering Managers operate at the intersection of technical excellence, people leadership, and business strategy. This role is designed for accomplished engineering leaders who can scale organizations, guide complex programs, and influence longterm technology direction.

HPE is a global technology leader built on innovation, trust, and engineering rigor. We empower senior managers with broad ownership and accountability—across people, execution, quality, and outcomes—while working alongside some of the industry's strongest technical talent.

Why HPE Networking

HPE Networking is one of our fastestgrowing and most strategic businesses, delivering open, standardsbased networking solutions across Branch, Campus, and Data Center environments worldwide. Our platforms support customers ranging from growing enterprises to the world's largest hyperscalers.

As a Senior Hardware Engineering Manager, you will lead multiple teams and managers responsible for developing complex, highperformance networking hardware, directly impacting product roadmap execution, business results, and longterm platform strategy across regions or organizational units.

How You'll Make An Impact

As a Senior Hardware Engineering Manager, you will provide direct and ongoing leadership for an organization of multiple subordinate managers and senior individual contributors, while owning delivery and strategic alignment across hardware R&D programs.

What You Will Do

Provide strategic, technical, and people leadership for multiple hardware engineering teams designing electrical and electronic subsystems, integrated circuitry, and platform solutions.
Manage headcount, budgets, schedules, and deliverables across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring alignment with business priorities, roadmaps, and financial commitments.
Drive execution from architecture alignment through mass production, ensuring quality, reliability, and cost targets are achieved.
Partner closely with program management, marketing, supply chain, manufacturing, architecture leaders, and executives to communicate status, escalate risks, and influence strategic decisions.
Act as a key advisor to senior leadership on technology direction, organizational capability, and longterm investment strategy.
Lead crossorganizational execution, enabling alignment across engineering, operations, and external partners.
Manage relationships with outsourced development partners and suppliers, setting clear expectations around quality, cost, delivery, and accountability.
Proactively identify process improvements, efficiency gains, and costreduction opportunities across teams and programs.
Provide overall peoplecare leadership, including hiring, talent development, performance management, succession planning, and organizational design.
Foster a strong culture of engineering rigor, accountability, mentorship, and continuous improvement across the organization.

Why This Role Stands Out

Leadership responsibility for a large, multiteam or regional hardware organization
Significant influence on business unit outcomes and engineering strategy
Opportunity to shape longterm platform and technology direction
Direct exposure to executive leadership and strategic decisionmaking
Strong emphasis on talent development and organizational sustainability

What You Need To Bring

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or a closely related discipline; advanced degree preferred.
Typically, 10+ years of engineering experience, including 5+ years of people management, preferably managing managers and senior technical staff.
Proven ability to apply expertlevel technical knowledge to guide teams solving complex hardware and systemlevel challenges.
Strong background in hardware design, validation, and product development lifecycles, enabling credible technical leadership.
Advanced leadership skills in coaching, team building, conflict resolution, and performance management.
Demonstrated success managing human capital across geographies, driving capability growth and consistent execution.
Strong business acumen, with the ability to balance technical excellence, cost, schedule, and risk.
Exceptional communication skills, able to engage and influence engineers, peers, and executive stakeholders.
Comfortable operating in highambiguity, highimpact environments, with strong prioritization and decisionmaking skills.

Additional Preferred Abilities

Experience managing large spans of control (typically 10+ direct/indirect reports).
Deep understanding of enterprise policies, processes, and governance models.
Advanced relationship management and consulting skills across business units.
Strategic thinker with the ability to translate longterm goals into executable plans.

Additional Skills

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Agile Methodology, Agile Scrum Development, Analytical Thinking, Bias, Coaching, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Group Problem Solving, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity + 5 more

What We Can Offer You

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. 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.

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Senior Hardware Engineering Manager – R&D Networking Platforms