Senior Director, Engineering - (CPE Enablement / Architecture)

Do you thrive in leading the senior technical talent that shapes what shows up in millions of customers' homes? As Senior Director, CPE Enablement Architecture at Spectrum, you'll lead a team of Principal Architects and Engineers driving new product introduction and reliability improvements across DOCSIS, PON, and WiFi customer premises equipment. You'll own the operating rhythm of the team - people development, portfolio visibility, and cross-organizational delivery - and represent CPE Enablement in the rooms where Spectrum's high-speed data product direction is formed. Every day, your leadership will determine how quickly new CPE technology reaches customers and how well it performs once it's there.

This is a leadership role, not a technical contributor role. The team already holds deep domain expertise. Your job is to lead them, keep complex work moving across a demanding organizational landscape, and make sure their output lands - in delivery teams, in product roadmaps, and in customers' hands.

How You’ll Make an Impact   

• Lead and develop a team of 10+ Principal Architects and Engineers (levels I-III) - 1:1s, goal setting, performance calibration, and active career development for veteran senior individual contributors
• Own the New Product Introduction pipeline end to end across DOCSIS, PON, and WiFi CPE: vendor engagement, design readiness, lab validation coordination, and handoff quality
• Maintain real-time awareness of every active NPI and reliability workstream, advancing projects from design through delivery-team handoff on schedule and without surprises
•  Serve as the accountable partner between CPE Enablement and executive leadership, delivery teams, partner engineering, product, and software development organizations - removing friction at org boundaries rather than escalating it
• Partner with Portfolio Management to keep priorities aligned to current technical realities, emerging risk, and delivery capacity, surfacing conflicts before they become escalations
• Advise executive leadership on CPE technology direction, product strategy, and reliability investment, translating complex technical work into clear, prioritized, decision-ready narratives
• Partner with Product in structured ideation sessions to shape the next generation of CPE products, bringing the team's technical insight forward into product strategy
• Direct quality standards for design documentation and handoff, ensuring delivery teams receive work that is complete, well-communicated, and ready to execute
• Manage the team's operating and capital budget and execute approved financial plans
• Lead succession planning and contribute to the growth of the broader CPE engineering organization

Working Conditions   

• Office environment
• Varying schedules within a 24 x 7 network operations setting
• Exposure to moderate noise levels
• Travel required

What You’ll Bring to Spectrum   

Required Qualifications   

Education  

• Master’s degree in engineering or related field or equivalent experience

Experience   

• 9+ years of management experience
• 12+ years of engineering or network operations experience
• 5+ years of project management experience

Skills   

• Ability to read, write, speak and understand English
• Advanced knowledge of customer premises equipment and access network technologies - DOCSIS, PON, WiFi, and IP networks
• Experience leading Principal or Staff-level technical professionals, including performance calibration and development of senior individual contributors
• Experience taking hardware or software products from design through field delivery, including vendor engagement, lab validation, and cross-team handoff
• Effective multitasking and management of concurrent projects and competing priorities
• Strong decision-making and problem-solving under pressure
• Supervisory and motivational skills
• Proficiency with personal computers and standard business software

Preferred Qualifications

• WiFi domain depth: 802.11ax/be standards, ecosystem platforms (OpenSync, Plume, RDK-B), or large-scale WiFi deployment experience
• Software architecture background across complex systems - embedded, firmware, cloud-managed CPE, or network software
• MSO or cable industry experience, including network architecture, provisioning, or service delivery
• Experience managing technical relationships with CPE manufacturers, chipset vendors, or platform partners through product development cycles
• Participation in standards or ecosystem bodies - CableLabs, Wi-Fi Alliance, IEEE 802.11, or similar
• Applied AI in engineering workflows: demonstrated use of AI tooling, including large language models, integrated into existing platforms and toolchains to reduce manual effort, compress analysis cycles, and extend the output of a small senior team.
• Candidates should be prepared to discuss specific implementations and the concrete benefit each delivered.

Education

• Industry and vendor-specific certifications and training (Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, NCTI, SCTE, BCT/E)

Skills

• Advanced knowledge of Spectrum’s products and services