General Information

Req #
WD00044710
Career area:
Hardware Engineering
Country/Region:
United States of America
State:
North Carolina
City:
Morrisville
Date:
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
Working time:
Full-time
Additional Locations: 
* United States of America - North Carolina - Morrisville - Mobile

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Description and Requirements

This is a 1st Line Management position for the DCG External Storage Development team. In this role you will work closely with various External Storage Vendors including NetApp, Brocade, Seagate, Celestica, Broadcom, Mellanox and Brocade. This individual will be Leading a highly successful and talented team of Storage Engineers and Technical project managers, working closely with peer managers, ODT Leads and many cross functional teams to develop, qualify and release External Storage programs.

 

Job Responsibilities:

 • Support Employee Career Development Goals

 • Build successful relationships with storage partners

 • Manage department budgets and staffing

 • Collaborate with the worldwide storage team to work through key issues and serve as

 an escalation point to raise issues with management and executives.

 • Support executive reviews, agenda and presentations periodically.

 • Lead the Development team to meet project milestones on schedule and budgets

 • Ensure quality delivery of Lenovo External Storage products

 • Execution of managerial duties, key performance indicator setting, reviews, ensuring needed skills are developed, cross training, etc.

 • Collaborate with global teams, generally in US and Asia

  • Interface with Storage ODT/ PM and NPIS process for new programs

 • Maintain an 18 month Storage Development product roadmap working with the broader team.

 * Roadmaps include both new storage technology introduction, new features, and code


Basic Requirements:

• BS degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineer or related

engineering field

• Must be a great people leader (manager), motivator and have great communication skills

• Must have strong leadership experience in leading (or managing) development team(s) in Lenovo DCG

• Must be able to manage multiple programs / partners / vendors simultaneously

• Ability to lead and collaborate with a worldwide team

• Need to understand that schedule and budget commitments are non-breakable

• Manage Budgets, expenses and schedules

•  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong presentation, reporting and communication skills.

• Proven Leadership skills with a deep technical team and vendor relationships

•Proven ability to manage schedule, budgets, resources and ability to escalate issues when appropriate

Preferred Qualifications:

•  Prior Management experience is a  plus

•  Storage knowledge (i.e. Direct-attach/SAN/NAS Access Technologies, Storage IO Protocols-FC/SCSI/SAS/NVME over Fabric, and Storage Controllers-JBOD/EBOD/RBOD) is a plus



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* United States of America
North Carolina

Additional Locations: 
* United States of America - North Carolina - Morrisville - Mobile
* United States of America - North Carolina - Morrisville - Mobile
* United States of America - North Carolina
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