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Job Summary
Drives a culture of innovation, excellence & collaboration in engineering teams, and establishes key quality metrics and processes for SDLC.

Responsibilities
Project and Program Management

• Influences and collaborates with multiple stakeholders of multiple portfolio of projects to plan software release calendars

• Ensures successful delivery of the portfolio on time and budget

• Provides overall program management for various portfolios, including global projects, by working with Technical Project Managers and leads across the teams and locations

• Creates and drives on stakeholder communications with respective to portfolio status, and budget utilization

• Responsible for resolving escalated issues and potential roadblocks

• Responsible for identifying and mitigating project execution risks

• Responsible for keeping all executive stakeholders updated on program/project status/risks

• Responsible for optimizing resource allocation and resolving resource allocation conflicts across the portfolio

• Guide and/or revise portfolio-level plans, as needed, to ensure they completely capture all activities and eliminate duplicative efforts

Stakeholder/Customer Engagement

• Acts as a technical liaison for customer advisories, co-innovations, and single point of contact for incidents

• Influence customer cycles and participate in industry forums and standard bodies

Management Reporting

• Presents critical status to executives and makes recommendations for improvement

• Facilitates monthly operational reviews of operational performance and roadmap status

• Responsible for reporting overall status to GTS senior leadership and executives, within and outside GTS, taking remediation action, when applicable

System Optimization

• Drives and manages change across the organization by implementing improvements to internal processes and systems

• Proactively identifies gaps, risks and issues and influence key stakeholders across the organization to resolve them

Resource and Budget Management

• Works closely with product engineering managers and technical project managers to track resource allocation and utilization for portfolio projects

• Ensures resource allocations based on Org priorities

• Identifies potential budget shortfalls and escalate proactively

• Manages and/or escalates issues, as needed

• Provides input to the annual budget planning process relating to project/support/SW maintenance/ Renewals/purchases/etc. for his/her areas of responsibility

• Review and optimization of budget allocation

Software Architecture/Design/DevOps

• Participates in software architecture, design reviews and DevOps processes of various projects and products

• Vendor and resource management for infrastructural needs

Stakeholder Management

• Responsible for providing objective and comprehensive input to senior leadership and executive decision makers

• Solicits stakeholder input to define comprehensive improvement plans that are consistent and drive standardization across regions

• Influences and collaborates with multiple stakeholders of multiple portfolios and projects to ensure effective release, change management and that support plans are defined and communicated

• Creates and drives broad stakeholder communications with respect to portfolio status and budget utilization

System Optimization

• Monitors adherence to KPIs

• Performs RCA if metrics are missed

• Proposes mitigation strategies for missed targets

• Is accountable for successful implementation of approved system improvement recommendations

• Drives adoption of best practices and standards

R&D/Innovation

• Drives innovation and provides thought leadership across the teams, rewards innovation, and helps communicate new ideas across teams

• Fosters and promotes a culture of innovation across local and global teams

Process/Policies/Standards

• Ensures departmental process/policies /standards are aligned with GTS priorities

• Defines process goals and measurement standards to ensure compliance

• Optimizes processes to ensure continuous process improvement to drive process quality and productivity

• Ensures consistency and efficiencies across standards and policies

Road Map/Planning

• Responsible for leading strategic planning, influencing and driving prioritization of initiatives with executive stakeholders

• Responsible for developing and communicating a roadmap of projects and initiatives in support of stakeholder priorities to all levels of the organization

People Management

• Provides leadership and direction to the team, through senior managers

• Will likely lead a larger team or multiple teams focused on execution of area or sub-function plans

• Is accountable for the performance and results of direct reports and maybe a larger or multiple teams, perhaps global

• Responsible for succession planning recommendations and contributing to and driving the people development strategy

• Responsible for performance management of team members, including disciplinary actions and hire/fire decisions/ recommendations

• Responsible for the GPS process including assessments and Total Rewards allocations of direct reports and reviewing and approving manager recommendations

• Responsible for talent development, including quarterly conversations, career pathways conversations and individual development/growth plans

• Models the Equinix Culture and Values

Review/Approvals/Escalations/Issues Resolution

• Leads Senior Leadership and Executive level escalations

• Drives creation and delivery of executive decision making cycles, with objective and comprehensive presentation of issues, business impacts, options with pros/cons, budgetary estimates, and recommendations

Vendor Management

• Approves final vendor selection

• Executes and guides vendor evaluations by team members, guides recommendations and reviews negotiation communications for executive review

• Establishes vendor engagement, support and SLA mechanisms

• Participates in vendor advisory boards and user groups

• Accountable for creating and negotiating vendor contracts, MSA/SOW, License Agreements, and drives internal reviews with GTS leadership and Legal teams

• Executes medium-scale vendor evaluations, pricing negotiations and software acquisitions

• Accountable for vendor performance

Country/Regional Management

• Manages team of local technology professionals/managers in a given country/region

• Represents country/regional priorities to the global team

• Executes against approved initiatives

• Manages technology and/or human resources in a single location, being familiar with local language, law and regulations, as needed

• Partners with global technology owners and regional stakeholders, to implement and maintain global technology standards

• Manages relationships with country/regional senior leadership stakeholders

• Defines, presents and obtains leadership approval for local execution strategy, aligned to global standards

Qualifications

• Proven years of professional experience in a software development leadership role

• Bachelor's in Engineering preferred

The targeted pay range for this position in the following location is / locations are:

United States - CA Bay Area : 240,000 - 360,000 USD / Annual

United States - CA Non-Bay Area, AK, CT, DC, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, VA, WA : 220,000 - 330,000 USD / Annual

United States - Other posted locations not specifically listed : 200,000 - 300,000 USD / Annual

Poland (Masovian) : 450,000 - 744,000 PLN / Annual

Poland (Outside of Masovian) : 409,000 - 676,000 PLN / Annual

Our pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and location.The pay range shown is based on our compensation structure in place at the time of posting and may be updated periodically based on business needs. Individual pay is based on additional factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training.

The targeted pay range listed reflects the base pay only and does not include bonus, equity, or benefits. Employees are eligible for bonus, and equity may be offered depending on the position.

Equinix Benefits

As an employee, you become important to Equinix’s success. We ensure all your benefits are in line with our core values: competitive, inclusive, sustainable, connected and efficient. We keep them competitive within the current marketplace to ensure we’re providing you with the best package possible. So, wherever you are in your career and life, you’ll be able to enhance your experience and bring your whole self to work.

Employee Assistance Program: An Employee Assistance program is available to all employees.

US Benefits: - Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members. - Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future. - Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific plan or program terms. Core Benefits - Pension: You will be enrolled in the employee capital plan or pension, known as PPK, a contributory pension scheme for you and your employer to save funds intended for withdrawal on retirement. Private Medical Insurance: You may enroll yourself and eligible dependents in Private Medical Insurance (PMI) for greater choice, flexibility, and access to specialist care for short-term illness or injury and so on. Life and Accident Insurance: Equinix provides Life and Accident Insurance cover for its employees which you can enroll in. Other Benefits and Perks - Employees have the option to select and use from a wide range of other benefits including: Annual Leaves, Flex Wallet (flexible spending account), Multi-sport Card, Lunch Pass Card, Discount Portal, statutory allowances and reimbursements (remote working, corrective glasses reimbursement), and paid and unpaid leaves in line with local market practices and regulatory requirements. More details on eligibility and rules for leaves are in Equinix's HR policies. Eligibility and contribution requirements apply to some benefits, in line with company policy. Benefits are subject to specific plan/program or insurer terms and conditions, including changes at Equinix's discretion. Equinix will be compliant will regulatory requirements on benefits and leaves.

Equinix is committed to ensuring that our employment process is open to all individuals, including those with a disability.  If you are a qualified candidate and need assistance or an accommodation, please let us know by completing this form.

Equinix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and, in the U.S., an Affirmative Action employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to unlawful consideration of race, color, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, ancestry, place of birth, citizenship, sex, pregnancy / childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or domestic partnership status, age, veteran or military status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, political / organizational affiliation, status as a victim or family member of a victim of crime or abuse, or any other status protected by applicable law. 

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This posting is for a backfill position, meaning it is to fill an existing vacancy within our organization.