Senior Director, Data & AI Engineering
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About the Role
SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.
Senior Director - Data & AI Engineering
Role Overview
We are looking for a hands-on, product-minded Senior Director of Data & AI Engineering to lead our newly formed, elite Data & AI team. In this role, you will lead a highly specialized team comprising data and AI/ML architects.
You are the bridge between deep technical innovation and product delivery. You will not only manage and guide these world-class engineers, but you will also remain actively hands-on—writing code, architecting solutions, and directly collaborating with Product Management, UX, and Core Security Platform teams to transform complex telemetry (logs, configs, alerts) into shipped, high-value AI features.
Key Responsibilities
1. Technical Leadership & People Management
- Lead an Elite Team: Manage, mentor, and align with a highly senior team of architects. You must possess the deep technical credibility to lead peers of this caliber.
- Keep a "Player-Coach" Mindset: Remain actively hands-on. You will contribute to architecture design, write code where needed, perform high-level reviews, and unblock complex technical bottlenecks alongside your team.
- Cultivate a High-Performance Culture: Foster an environment of rapid experimentation, continuous learning, and rigorous engineering standards, balancing cutting-edge AI research with disciplined production deployment.
2. Cross-Functional Product Development & Strategy
- Translate Tech into Product: Partner closely with Product Management to define the AI roadmap, translating complex engineering breakthroughs into clear, highly valuable customer featu
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