Position: Technical Engineering Director
Location: Silicon Valley

Company:
Our client is a profitable, admired, public company in the San Jose, CA
area. They have asked us to locate a senior product development leader. This
person will provide leadership and consultation as a non-manager to a broad
groupĀ  of product development engineers working on Data Protection products.

Outstanding salary, benefits, stock, and relocation for the qualified
candidate:

Technical Director, Data Protection

Job Summary:
As a Technical Director of Software Engineering you provide a strong
leadership and consultative role to the function as related to driving
product development and strategy.

As part of the Research and Development function, the overall focus of the
group is on competitive market and customer requirements, technology
advances, product quality, product cost and time-to-market.

The Software Development function is responsible for enhancements to
existing products as well as new product development in the Data Protection
area.

Key responsibilities:
- Drive the organization to deliver application-integrated solutions for
business critical environments.

- Help define the technical mission for next-generation of Data Protection
products, including replication and management.

- Architect and provide technical leadership for the team that is developing
our client’s enterprise-class solution.

- Influence other groups, both within and outside the company, to innovate
around client’s storage products and technologies.

- Identify and partner with leading companies that provide critical Data
Protection technologies and solutions.

- A major part of your responsibility will be to work on issues that impact
development success or address future concepts, products or technologies.

Requirements:
- This individual will provide future technical vision to the Software
Development group.

- Successfully negotiate strategic and other issues which effect the
business internally and externally.

- Must be a seasoned communicator and presenter.

- Maintain affiliations and relationships with academic and industry
technical experts globally and serve as external spokesperson for the
company.

- Provide leadership and guidance to senior engineers.

Education & Experience:
- A minimum of 15+ years of industry experience architecting and providing
technical leadership for market - leading backup, storage, mirroring, and/or
clustering products is required.

- Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
A, Master Degree or a PhD is preferred.

- Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple, extremely complex
technical projects.

Contact:
If you wish to be considered, please send a detailed resume showing your
previous experience in the STORAGE space, and your experience that relates
to the above-listed requirements. Send to: hank AT ocgrp DOT com

Hank Zauderer
Operational Consulting Group
www.ocgrp.com
831.662.0605