Meet the Team
Join Cisco's fast-growing Product Global Transformation Management (GTM) Strategy & Execution team, where you will scale critical business operations, optimize key workflows, and deliver foundational data architecture for mission-critical systems that drive our core success. As a Leader in Data Engineering, you will take ownership of designing, building, and advancing core data products and infrastructure at the center of this rapid expansion. Cisco is transforming how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era, empowering you to collaborate globally, experiment boldly, and deliver solutions with profound impact across both the physical and digital worlds.
Your Impact
As a Leader of the Cisco Product GTM Strategy & Execution team, you will shape the future of our Licensing data ecosystem by owning the end-to-end lifecycle of our modern data platform. Through technical leadership and multi-functional collaboration, you will drive our data strategy, empower data-driven decisions, and accelerate go-to-market success.
Key Responsibilities- Build and implement data engineering strategy, aligning platform architecture with business goals.
- Define enterprise standards for data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, quality, and modeling (including dimensional and Data Vault).
- Nurture a collaborative, high-performing team by mentoring engineers and championing a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and technical excellence.
- Deliver trusted, reusable data products to support advanced analytics and AI/ML use cases.
Minimum Qualifications
We are looking for an Engineering Leader with 12+ years in software/data engineering, including 3+ years leading data engineering teams.
- Proven experience designing and building enterprise-scale data platforms with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Strong expertise in cloud-based data platforms, including Snowflake, AWS, and/or GCP.
- Deep understanding of data architecture, data modeling, data governance, and data quality principles.
- Experience with modern data stack such as Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, SQL, and Python.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and customer management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across global, multi-functional teams.
Optional Skills (Good to Have):
- Experience with AI/ML or GenAI-driven data platforms and solutions.
- Exposure to real-time data processing technologies such as Kafka and Spark.
- Experience driving large-scale data platform modernization and cloud migration initiatives.
Why Cisco?
At Cisco, we’re revolutionizing how data and infrastructure connect and protect organizations in the AI era – and beyond. We’ve been innovating fearlessly for 40 years to create solutions that power how humans and technology work together across the physical and digital worlds. These solutions provide customers with unparalleled security, visibility, and insights across the entire digital footprint.
Fueled by the depth and breadth of our technology, we experiment and create meaningful solutions. Add to that our worldwide network of doers and experts, and you’ll see that the opportunities to grow and build are limitless. We work as a team, collaborating with empathy to make really big things happen on a global scale. Because our solutions are everywhere, our impact is everywhere.
We are Cisco, and our power starts with you.
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Skills Required
- 12+ years of experience in software or data engineering
- 3+ years leading data engineering teams
- Experience designing and building enterprise-scale data platforms
- Experience with cloud-based data platforms, including Snowflake, AWS, and/or GCP
- Strong understanding of data architecture, data modeling, data governance, and data quality
- Experience with Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, SQL, and Python
- Leadership, communication, and customer management skills
- Ability to influence and collaborate across global, multifunctional teams
- Experience with AI/ML or GenAI-driven data platforms and solutions
- Exposure to Kafka and Spark
- Experience driving large-scale data platform modernization and cloud migration initiatives
Cisco Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cisco and has not been reviewed or approved by Cisco.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad, with medical options including PPOs, high-deductible plans, and regional HMOs. Feedback suggests robust wellness and mental-health resources, with some locations offering on-site support and second medical opinions.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is highlighted through paid holidays, paid time off, and additional recharge days such as “Days for Me,” with generous volunteer time also mentioned. Feedback suggests these programs help support rest, volunteering, and critical life events.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support appears extensive, including paid child-bonding leave, family medical leave, and caregiving resources. Observations also point to family-planning assistance and adoption or surrogacy support in some regions.
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