Azure Fiber Portfolio Leader

Working across Azure Fiber engineering, manufacturing, supply chain and network stakeholders, the role establishes portfolio priorities, resolves complex cross-functional trade-offs and drives decisions across multiple technologies, products and time horizons. Own the end-to-end Azure Fiber portfolio, establishing the strategy, priorities and integrated roadmap from technology innovation through product development, industrialisation, supply readiness, deployment and lifecycle management.

Translate Azure's current and future network needs into fiber technology and product priorities, ensuring investment and engineering resources are focused on opportunities that deliver the greatest strategic value and sustainable advantage for Azure. Provide principal-level technical leadership and engineering judgement, resolving complex and ambiguous challenges and balancing performance, cost, manufacturability, capacity, supply resilience, risk and time to deployment.

Drive portfolio execution and readiness at scale, identifying critical dependencies and ensuring technologies have a credible path from R&D through qualification, manufacturing and successful Azure deployment. Establish the engineering frameworks, governance and decision mechanisms required to manage Azure Fiber as an integrated technology portfolio, enabling consistent, evidence-based decisions and increasing the effectiveness of the wider engineering organisation.

Influence across organisational boundaries, acting as a trusted technical partner to Azure Fiber leadership and aligning engineering, networking, manufacturing, supply chain and other stakeholders around key portfolio decisions and outcomes.

Contribute actively as a member of the Romsey Leadership Team, acting as a visible senior engineering role model and helping build a positive, inclusive and high-performing site culture through mentoring, collaboration, knowledge sharing and development of the wider Romsey engineering community Degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or related field AND technical engineering experience OR equivalent experience Experience owning or influencing the strategy, development, and lifecycle management of complex technology products, platforms, or engineering portfolios, including balancing customer, market, technical, and business priorities.

Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams in a production, operational, manufacturing, infrastructure, or technology environment, with accountability for delivering business and engineering outcomes. Experience in optical networking, fibre systems, datacentre networking, telecommunications infrastructure, or closely related industries. Experience leading engineering organisations through technology innovation, product commercialisation, manufacturing scale-up, or large-scale infrastructure deployment.

Demonstrated expertise in translating emerging technologies and research into commercially viable products, platforms, or services.