Sr. Director, Product Management & Architecture – Data Center Networking

Sr. Director, Product Management & Architecture – Data Center Networking

  

This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. 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. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

Juniper Networks, part of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is seeking a hands-on Distinguished Technologist to drive the next generation of data center networking platforms for hyperscale and AI-driven environments.

In this high-impact, individual contributor role, you will guide the architectural strategy and technical product management for a subset of Juniper’s QFX switching portfolio, with a focus on Trident/Tomahawk scale-up systems and cutting-edge Neo-Cloud solutions. This is a senior technical leadership role—not a people-management position—where your deep expertise will directly shape Juniper’s competitiveness in the fast-evolving AI and hyperscale data center markets.

This role will be based full time in Sunnyvale, CA.

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead system architecture and roadmap alignment for QFX products, driving technical differentiation and innovation.

• Engage with customers and ecosystem partners at the design and architecture level to ensure Juniper products meet next-gen performance, scalability, and efficiency requirements.

• Make critical decisions on technology choices, component selection, and architectural trade-offs for complex switch and router systems.

• Collaborate closely with engineering on system design, hardware architecture, power/thermal modeling, and fabric topology.

• Analyze market trends and emerging technologies to future-proof Juniper’s data center portfolio.

• Communicate technical strategy and product value to customers and stakeholders.

Experience and Skills

• Proven track record in designing and building complex hardware systems (switches, routers) for data center or hyperscale environments.

• Deep technical expertise in networking silicon, scale-up architectures, and AI/Neo-Cloud infrastructure.

• Strong ability to drive technical strategy, architectural innovation, and product differentiation.

• Experience collaborating with vendors and ODM partners.

• Excellent communication skills—able to articulate technical vision and product value to both customers and internal teams.

Additional Skills:

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, User Experience (UX)

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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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_08

    

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