Chief Architect, SASE/SSE
This role has been designed as ‘’Onsite’ with an expectation that you will primarily work from an HPE office.
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:
Job Family Definition:
The Chief Architect, SASE/SSE is the senior technical authority responsible for shaping and driving the end‑to‑end architecture, technology vision, and innovation strategy for HPE’s SASE/SSE (Security Service Edge) platforms.
This role builds from first principles to support mission‑critical, global‑scale security and networking services, continuously pushing architectural boundaries to solve complex customer problems. The Chief Architect brings deep technical judgment, systems thinking, and industry perspective to translate customer, product, and business needs into secure, scalable, and differentiated cloud-native solutions.
Operating at the intersection of engineering, product, security, and business strategy, the Chief Architect ensures architectural coherence across data plane, control plane, identity, policy, analytics, and operations—while enabling teams to innovate and execute with speed and quality.
The Chief Architect is also expected to champion an AI-first mindset across the SASE/SSE platform and engineering organization, identifying where AI and automation can meaningfully improve customer value, engineering velocity, operational efficiency, and decision-making at scale.
Management Level Definition:
This is a pivotal, top‑tier technical leadership role with sustained and measurable impact across multiple business units, product lines, and strategic initiatives.
The Chief Architect is a recognized authority inside and outside HPE, with a proven track record of defining and delivering leading‑edge, industry‑shaping technologies. The role influences executive‑level decisions by balancing architectural integrity, customer outcomes, financial implications, and long‑term platform sustainability.
In addition to driving technology direction, the Chief Architect serves as a mentor, role model, and technical bar‑raiser across the engineering organization, while actively engaging with customers, partners, and the broader industry ecosystem.
This role plays a key part in guiding the organization through its AI journey, ensuring responsible, scalable, and pragmatic adoption of AI technologies aligned with HPE’s business goals and engineering culture.
Responsibilities:
Architecture Vision & Strategy
- Define and own the long‑term architecture vision and multi‑year technology roadmap for HPE’s SASE/SSE platforms across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments.
- Drive architectural innovation across security, networking, identity, policy, data, and analytics to deliver differentiated customer value at scale.
Establish architectural principles, reference architectures, and guardrails that guide teams while enabling innovation.
Drive the leverage of AI capabilities (including data-driven intelligence, automation, and assisted workflows) and how to incorporate them into the SASE/SSE architecture to enhance security efficacy, user experience, and operational efficiency.
Technical Governance & Decision Making
Serve as the technical authority for major architectural decisions with cross‑platform or cross‑organization impact.
- Provide strategic consultation and design leadership for complex initiatives, ensuring alignment with best practices, non‑functional requirements, and business objectives.
Lead architecture and design reviews for high‑impact programs, identifying risks early and steering teams toward sustainable solutions.
Evaluate and guide architectural decisions related to AI usage, including build vs. buy considerations, data strategy implications, model integration, and long-term maintainability.
Security, Scale & Reliability Leadership
Cross‑Functional & External Leadership
- Communicate and advocate the SASE/SSE architecture strategy and roadmap to executive leadership, customers, and strategic partners.
- Act as a senior technical voice in key customer engagements, escalations, and roadmap discussions.
- Represent HPE engineering in industry forums, standards discussions, and technical collaborations where appropriate.
Talent & Technical Community Leadership
- Mentor senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders; set the bar for technical excellence and decision quality.
- Contribute to identifying, developing, and growing the next generation of technical leaders within HPE.
Foster a culture of strong technical ownership, clear written decision‑making, and constructive architectural debate.
Promote adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices across the organization to improve developer productivity, code quality, and delivery velocity.
Education and Experience Required:
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a closely related quantitative discipline.
- Typically 15+ years of progressive experience in cloud, security, networking, or large‑scale distributed systems architecture.
Demonstrated experience leading architecture for complex, global, cloud‑native platforms with strong security and reliability requirements.
Experience driving or enabling AI/ML-based capabilities in large-scale platforms is highly desirable.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Deep expertise in cloud‑native architecture, distributed systems, and platform‑scale software design.
- Strong background in security and networking architectures, ideally including SASE, SSE, Zero Trust, identity, and policy‑driven systems.
- Exceptional analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to simplify complex systems and drive clear architectural decisions.
- Proven ability to align technology strategy with business outcomes, financial considerations, and customer impact.
- Track record of technical innovation, including patents, published designs, or successful large‑scale product deployments.
Outstanding communication skills, capable of influencing and aligning stakeholders at the executive and industry level.
Strong understanding of AI concepts, data pipelines, and automation techniques, with the ability to apply them pragmatically to real-world engineering and product challenges.
Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Release Management, Security-First Mindset, User Experience (UX)
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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