Vice President, Technology & Architecture

HP•Palo Alto, CA

4d•$320,000 - $350,000

About The Position

The Vice President, Technology & Architecture role serves as a strategic thought partner to the CTO, Software at HP and is accountable for defining the technology direction, architecture, and innovation roadmap that drives engineering excellence and sustained business impact at HP. This role oversees software and platform architecture, technology incubation, technology strategy, and technology advocacy functions. This senior leadership position is critical to advancing HP’s software-led business transformation and growth by driving innovation and enabling new efficiencies and operating models. This role reports to the Chief Technology Officer, Software at HP. This leader will serve as a trusted partner to C-level executives and stakeholders across product and technology, with the opportunity to deliver sustained, company-wide impact at HP—a global technology leader and long-standing Fortune 100 company with more than 28,000 patents, over $55 billion in annual revenue, and 58,000 employees worldwide.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field; a Ph.D. is preferred.
Current or prior experience operating at the VP level in technology or engineering within an established technology company.
15+ years of experience in technology, engineering, or related areas, including 8+ years leading organizations through senior leadership roles.
Proven success attracting top talent and building and leading high-performing teams that drive technology architecture, strategy, and innovation capabilities within large, complex product or engineering environments.
Experience driving technology innovation, strategy, and architecture within engineering organizations delivering capabilities for products used by millions of customers and/or large-scale commercial businesses generating more than $100 million in annual revenue.
Strong track record of improving operational efficiency and engineering effectiveness through strategic thinking and disciplined execution.
Experience leading or scaling functions such as technology architecture, innovation, and/or strategy.
Demonstrated ability to influence senior executives and drive alignment across large, matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical and operational topics clearly to executive audiences.
Strong collaboration and leadership presence, with a reputation for building trust, attracting top talent, and developing diverse, high-performing teams.

Nice To Haves

Ph.D. is preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead by example, fostering a culture of accountability, technology and architecture excellence, and a customer-first mindset across the organization.
Attract, build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of talented technologists, architects, and engineers with diverse expertise, perspectives, and backgrounds.
Lead central architecture, with responsibility for developing the end-to-end, full-stack architecture across platform and product software engineering, including architecture principles, target architecture blueprints, and architecture evolution and migration plans.
Lead a team of senior distinguished engineers focused on next-generation technology stacks and architectures across software, data and AI, security, infrastructure, and reliability engineering.
Lead technology incubation, with responsibility for building and sustaining incubation environments that support CTO, Software; global business unit; and stakeholder technology innovation initiatives, and for delivering the HP CTO Lab—a new full-stack software and platform sandbox for conducting proofs of concept in partnership with CTO, Software teams, internal stakeholders, and external partners and customers.
Lead technology strategy, with responsibility for the roadmap of platform and software stacks, technology and vendor solution evaluation for strategic initiatives, and technology ecosystem monitoring and engagement.
Lead technology advocacy, including technology thought leadership, external industry engagement, internal thought leadership, hackathons, Developer Day, and related initiatives.