Senior Director, Lead-to-Order Software Engineering
Houston, TX - USA
Job Summary
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Job Description
HP is seeking an exceptional Senior Director of Lead-to-Order Software Engineering to lead one of the companys most business-critical digital engineering organizations. This leader will own the strategy execution modernization and operational excellence of HPs Lead-to-Order software portfolio spanning CPQ eCommerce partner enablement sales compensation subscription services payment and invoicing digital content CRM and commerce platforms.
This role leads a large global engineering organization across the U.S. India Brazil China Colombia Europe and other regions with responsibility for managers full-time software developers contractors architects Scrum Masters and TPMs. The current organization has operated at 350 software professionals and includes multiple globally distributed engineering managers and delivery teams.
The ideal candidate is a deeply technical business-oriented engineering executive who can modernize enterprise platforms accelerate software delivery improve quality and resiliency optimize global delivery models and partner with senior business leaders to enable HPs Lead-to-Order transformation.
Why This Role Matters
Lead-to-Order sits at the center of HPs ability to convert customer partner and commercial demand into revenue. This leader will drive platforms and capabilities that directly influence quote velocity order accuracy partner experience commerce enablement subscription growth sales compensation and operational efficiency.
Continued portfolio improvements include modernization of CPQ eCommerce and subscription platforms; faster quote cycle times; improved order accuracy; large-scale vendor consolidation; AI-enabled SDLC acceleration; and measurable cost savings across software delivery and operations. The organization also delivers business-impacting capabilities across HP2B B2C commerce Stellar Direct Gekko/subscription services marketing digital asset transformation HP All-In Plan and EMEA partner automation.
Responsibilities
Engineering Strategy and Platform Modernization
Lead the vision architecture modernization and execution roadmap for HPs Lead-to-Order platforms including CPQ CRM B2B/B2C eCommerce partner portal partner enablement partner contra sales compensation subscriptions payment and invoicing and related digital commerce capabilities.
Drive modernization of strategic platforms to improve scalability resiliency security developer productivity customer experience and partner experience.
Establish clear engineering priorities tied to business KPIs including quote cycle time order accuracy revenue enablement platform availability cost efficiency security posture and delivery predictability.
Global Engineering Leadership
Lead a large globally distributed engineering organization across multiple geographies time zones cultures and delivery models. Build a high-performance leadership team of engineering managers architects technical leads program leaders and senior engineers.
Develop talent strengthen succession plans improve organizational design and create clear accountability across multiple software domains and value streams.
Build strong relationships with L3/L4 value stream leaders business stakeholders finance HR enterprise architecture security operations procurement and supplier partners.
AI-Enabled Software Delivery and SDLC Transformation
Lead the next generation of software engineering productivity by operationalizing AI-assisted and agentic SDLC accelerators developer productivity tooling engineering standards automation and measurable delivery improvements.
Define and scale a standard SDLC framework across the organization including story point baselining quality gates DevSecOps practices release discipline observability and continuous improvement. The current role includes leading the development of a standard SDLC framework and operationalizing supplier strategy outcomes.
Operational Excellence Cost and Supplier Strategy
Own major software delivery budgets supplier performance workforce mix and cost optimization strategies. Lead vendor consolidation sourcing strategy master SOW governance technical assessments and delivery model optimization.
Drive significant savings through supplier consolidation AI-driven development acceleration infrastructure optimization contractor-to-FTE conversions and cloud cost reduction.
Security Quality Reliability and Governance
Ensure all Lead-to-Order platforms meet enterprise standards for security privacy compliance availability and operational resiliency.
Drive vulnerability remediation DevSecOps maturity cloud infrastructure stability incident reduction automation testing strategy observability and production excellence. Continue the reduction of high-severity exposure across Azure Pipelines agents and improve stability job success and production ticket performance.
Scope of Leadership
This leader will oversee a broad Lead-to-Order portfolio that includes but is not limited to:
- Sales Experience CRM and CPQ solutions
- B2B and B2C eCommerce
- Partner Portal and Partner Enablement
- Partner Contra
- Sales Compensation
- Gekko / Subscription Services
- Payment and Invoicing
- Digital Content
- All-In Commerce / HP All-In Plan capabilities
- Intelligent commerce and commerce modernization initiatives
This portfolio has engineering resources across multiple engineering managers and functional areas in Houston Austin Hyderabad Bengaluru Pune Vancouver Mexico and other locations.
The pay range for this role is$200150to$320250USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location job-related knowledge skills and experience.
Benefits:
HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position including:
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Long term/short term disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible spending account
- Life insurance
- Generous time off policies including;
- 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
- 11 paid holidays
- Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)
The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time with or without notice subject to applicable law.
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