HPC Software & Storage Engineering Strategist

Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Bloomington, CO

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

The HPC Software & Storage Engineering Strategist is a senior individual contributor who reports directly to the Vice President of HPC Software & Storage Engineering. The role acts as a strategic advisor and operating partner to the VP and leadership team, providing analysis, planning, and organizational insight to inform workforce, investment, portfolio, and operating decisions. It develops an integrated, forward-looking view of workforce, financial investments, engineering capacity, product commitments, and sustaining obligations, and turns business and technology strategy into resource and investment requirements and recommendations.

The Strategist works across Engineering, Finance, Product Management, Business Planning, Support, and other stakeholders to align organizational resources with the HPC & AI strategy and roadmap. The role goes beyond reporting to identify trends, challenge assumptions, evaluate alternatives, and recommend actions. It establishes an operating cadence and trusted information base for workforce, financial, portfolio, and strategic planning, and supports executive decisions through clear analysis and recommendations.

The position is designated Hybrid, with an expectation to work an average of two days per week from an HPE office. The stated U.S. annual base salary range is USD 172,500–344,500 in Colorado and USD 163,500–396,500 in Minnesota and Texas. Variable incentives may also be offered. The estimated application-period closure is January 24, 2027.

Requirements

• Significant experience in strategy, engineering operations, business planning, financial planning, portfolio management, or related leadership roles within a complex technology organization.
• Demonstrated ability to advise and influence senior executives and engineering leaders.
• Strong business and financial acumen, including workforce modeling, CAPEX/OPEX planning, forecasting, investment analysis, and scenario modeling.
• Experience translating technology and product strategies into workforce and investment requirements.
• Strong analytical capability and demonstrated ability to synthesize complex organizational and financial information into actionable recommendations.
• Ability to understand complex engineering organizations, technology roadmaps, and product lifecycle considerations.
• Exceptional executive communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
• Demonstrated judgment and comfort challenging assumptions and presenting alternative perspectives to senior leadership.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in large-scale software, infrastructure, systems, HPC, AI, or enterprise technology environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the HPC Software & Storage Engineering headcount forecast, including actuals, forecasts, hiring plans, attrition assumptions, open positions, and organizational changes.
• Develop multi-year workforce and capacity models aligned with technology roadmaps, product commitments, platform schedules, sustaining requirements, and strategic priorities.
• Work with directors to translate future engineering commitments into required skills, capacity, and headcount; identify capacity gaps, skill gaps, organizational constraints, and over- or under-investment.
• Evaluate workforce allocation across new product development, platform enablement, sustaining, technical debt, and strategic initiatives; recommend resource reallocation and model alternative workforce scenarios.
• Lead planning and management of HPC Software & Storage Engineering CAPEX and OPEX; partner with Finance and engineering leadership on annual budgets, long-range plans, forecasts, and investment scenarios.
• Monitor actual and forecast spending against plan, identify variances, risks, and opportunities, recommend corrective actions, and connect investments to strategic priorities, roadmap deliverables, and business outcomes.
• Evaluate financial implications of alternative roadmap, staffing, sourcing, and organizational decisions, and recommend investment tradeoffs when resources are constrained.
• Represent HPC Software R&D’s interests and requirements in defining software support policies, support durations, sustaining models, and funding requirements.
• Integrate and assess engineering resources consumed by sustaining and support obligations, including whether funding and staffing match engineering effort and customer and contractual commitments.
• Quantify the cost of long-term product support, identify unfunded or underfunded obligations, and recommend support duration, funding models, staffing levels, lifecycle transitions, and end-of-support decisions.
• Identify legacy products or commitments that consume disproportionate engineering capacity and make the associated investment tradeoffs visible to leadership.
• Partner with Support, Product Management, Finance, and Engineering to establish sustainable support and funding models.
• Develop an integrated view of resources and spending across the portfolio; assess alignment with strategic priorities and the future roadmap across development, platform enablement, sustaining, technical debt, infrastructure, and other commitments.
• Recommend where portfolio investment should be increased, maintained, consolidated, reduced, or exited; assess opportunity costs and establish mechanisms to measure intended engineering and business outcomes.
• Translate HPC & AI technology and product strategy into multi-year workforce, capacity, and financial requirements, including 12-, 24-, and 36-month demand and investment views.
• Identify future resource constraints and investment needs, integrate planning assumptions, and develop scenarios showing the consequences of alternative strategic choices.
• Develop organizational scenarios for alternative structures, sourcing approaches, geographic strategies, and resource allocations; assess financial, capacity, execution, and organizational implications, including make/buy/partner decisions where appropriate.
• Advise the VP and leadership team on organizational, workforce, financial, and investment decisions; connect headcount, spending, capacity, roadmap commitments, sustaining obligations, and business priorities.
• Identify trends and emerging risks, frame decisions through alternatives, tradeoffs, risks, and recommended actions, challenge assumptions, and provide an independent, data-driven perspective.
• Develop concise executive-level materials for strategic planning, business reviews, portfolio reviews, and investment decisions; track major decisions and evaluate whether expected outcomes are achieved.
• Establish and maintain an operating cadence for workforce, financial, portfolio, and strategic planning; improve forecasting accuracy, data quality, and visibility.
• Maintain a trusted source of information on organizational capacity, investment, commitments, and risks; ensure leadership decisions are reflected in updated plans and drive follow-through on review actions.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing for team members and their loved ones.
• Career development programs tailored to individual career goals.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed