Director, Software Engineering | ( Enterprise Systems, ERP's & Supply Chain )

Team and Role Overview

Strategic Leadership and Platforms

• Define the roadmap for in-app and role-based AI integration across core supply chain systems.
• Establish practices for agent security, semantic modeling, multi-agent protocols, and continuous agent learning.
• Oversee scalable agentic frameworks using LangGraph, LangChain, and LLMs with enterprise Ask/Respond capabilities.
• Transform legacy supply chain systems into modern AI-powered platforms while minimizing operational disruption.

AI, Data, and Integration

• Guide Natural Language Interaction and Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems that provide actionable enterprise insights.
• Develop secure, high-throughput connectors using APIs, SDKs, and database drivers for Oracle, SAP HANA, Snowflake, and MongoDB.
• Set direction for LLM prompt-engineering frameworks and APIs supporting input parsing and intent recognition.
• Lead adoption of FIPA ACL, MCP, A2A, and other multi-agent communication and integration protocols.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Partner with business, product, security, and infrastructure leaders to align AI initiatives with supply chain goals.
• Build and develop high-performing engineering teams and senior technical talent.
• Represent Cisco Supply Chain IT in industry forums and partnerships.
• Promote code quality, agile delivery, continuous learning, and alignment between site strategy and organizational goals.

Minimum Qualifications

• Broad supply chain systems experience across new product introduction, planning, inventory, sourcing, manufacturing, and logistics.
• Experience integrating and working with contract manufacturers.
• Expertise in Oracle or SAP ERP systems at scale and experience implementing end-to-end systems.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP in a multi-cloud enterprise environment.
• Experience integrating sales, order management, finance, export, legal, security, and identity systems.
• Proven senior leadership and team-building experience with a global workforce.
• Strong analytical, written, verbal, executive communication, influence, and collaboration skills.
• Strong business judgment and business analytics or financial skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Business judgment and a foundation in business analytics and financial skills.
• Results orientation, self-motivation, flexibility, collaboration, and adaptability in a fast-changing environment.
• Effectiveness in influencing others and using collaborative relationships for success.

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