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Software Engineering Technical Leader

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2 days ago
Zürich, SwitzerlandStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead major software engineering projects with regional, functional, or enterprise-wide impact.
  • Define technical vision and engineering priorities in alignment with strategic business goals.
  • Drive large features from technical design through completion and influence technical direction across the function.
  • Develop and implement software development lifecycle, engineering, tooling, and integration strategies.
  • Build systems that connect meeting recordings, transcripts, status materials, milestones, dependencies, and delivery data into searchable and actionable information.
  • Establish clean-code standards, secure coding practices, privacy-conscious development, and software engineering best practices.
  • Create metrics and influence product adoption, direction, and cross-team alignment efficiency.
  • Identify production issues, develop proactive tooling, and drive sustainable response and continuous improvement.
  • Lead, mentor, and influence senior engineers and represent team outputs when appropriate.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree plus 12 years of related experience, or master’s degree plus 8 years, or PhD plus 5 years.
  • Specialized depth or breadth in the relevant job family, with advanced technical acumen and experience advising management.
  • Experience designing and building internal engineering tools, integrations, APIs, or data pipelines across systems such as Jira, GitHub, CDET, collaboration platforms, and meeting recording or transcription services.
  • Experience transforming fragmented operational data into reliable, searchable, actionable views of milestones, dependencies, and delivery status.
  • Experience treating internal developer or process tooling as a product with defined users, UX standards, and adoption or impact measures.
  • Experience owning cross-functional technical initiatives with engineering, product management, and program management stakeholders.
  • Experience integrating with existing enterprise processes and systems rather than creating parallel information sources.
  • Experience validating an approach with one team, measuring its impact, and scaling it across a broader organization.

Categories

BackendData Engineering
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About Cisco

10,000+ employees

Cisco designs and sells networking, security, and collaboration platforms for enterprises, service providers, and governments, spanning routers and switches, Wi‑Fi, firewalls, zero‑trust, observability, and cloud-managed IT (Meraki) plus Webex. Its business model mixes hardware, software subscriptions, and support/consulting services. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Cisco is a public company traded on Nasdaq and serves customers across data centers, campuses, and service provider networks.

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