Systems Engineering Director

Why WWT?

Fueled by creativity and ideation, World Wide Technology strives to accelerate our growth and nurture future innovation. From our world class culture, to our generous benefits, to developing cutting edge technology solutions, WWT constantly works towards its mission of creating a profitable growth company that is a great place to work. We encourage our employees to embrace collaboration, get creative and think outside the box when it comes to delivering some of the most advanced technology solutions for our customers.

At a glance, WWT was founded in 1990 in St. Louis, Missouri. We employ over 7,000 individuals and closed over $14 Billion in revenue. We have an inclusive culture and believe our core values are the key to company and employee success. WWT is proud to announce that it has been named on the FORTUNE "100 Best Places to Work For®" list for the tenth consecutive year!

Want to work with highly motivated individuals that come together to form high performance team? Come join WWT today!

Why should you join WWT as a SE Director?

World Wide Technology has an opportunity available for a Systems Engineering Director to support our Global Enterprise Sales teams located in the East Region. This position, reporting to the VP of Systems Engineering, is responsible for leading the execution of WWT's technical strategy in support of our business priorities. In this role you will identify business needs and opportunities, and the problem-solving skills to help achieve them through technological and organizational innovation.

What will you be doing?

The Systems Engineering Director will be responsible for recruiting, developing, and leading a team of experienced Consulting Systems Engineers/Architects who deliver deep technical knowledge and unique testing and validation capabilities to our Enterprise customers and WWT sales teams. Additionally, this individual will take part in customer meetings and presentation at the C-level level to provide consultative framework around the services and solutions that WWT can provide. The candidate must possess broad expertise in infrastructure, application, and cloud architectures.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Own the execution of the technical strategy while contributing to the organization's overall business strategy, plans, and technology direction.
• Collaborate with Sales, Services and Consulting Systems Engineers to define strategic technical plans and align/partner with the key OEMs to solve customer problems.
• Lead Executive/Sr. level meetings with customers to gain a detailed understanding of their technical and business needs
• Help develop transformational solutions that enable our customers to achieve best-in-class performance, reliability, and privacy, while adhering to industry standard architectural principals
• Conduct architecture and technical workshops that may include enablement sessions, working with WWT experts in network, compute, storage, virtualization, collaboration, security, big data and application development
• Identify trade-offs between short- and long-term gains by having a deep understanding of customer needs and technical choices.
• Recruit, hire and effectively manage and grow a diverse and talented set of employees.
• Provide technical direction, coaching and mentoring to employees on the team, and others, when necessary to achieve successful short- and long-term outcomes.
• Develop strong relationships with strategic OEM partner and customers.
• Participate in industry, product, sales, and procedural training as needed to maintain the knowledge and certifications necessary to be effective

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Candidates should be living in the Eastern Region of the US
• Deep knowledge of multiple Enterprise industries, particularly the business outcomes, solutions, and technology
• Minimum 10 years of progressive engineering management experience in a highly complex, sophisticated environment
• 3+ years in an enterprise-scale CIO, CTO or EA role
• Experience leading the development of enterprise architectures, cloud environments and application frameworks
• 50% travel may be required.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required; Masters degree preferred
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, thought leadership, mentorship, and the ability to translate complex architectures into easily understood and consumable solutions are required.

**WWT has a vaccine requirement for all of its U.S. workforce. All new hires must be fully vaccinated before starting at WWT. Appropriate religious and medical accommodations will be made and can be discussed in the pre-hire process.**

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The well-being of WWT employees is essential. So, when it comes to our benefits package, WWT has one of the best. We offer the following benefits to all full-time employees:

• Health and Wellbeing: Heath, Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers, Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
• Financial Benefits: Competitive pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Sick Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement
• Additional Perks: Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program

World Wide Technology, Inc. offers excellent benefits and competitive compensation. Visit our company web page at www.wwt.com for more information.

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