Distinguished Engineer (MTD)

CO Salary Range: USD 155,430.00 - 275,990.00 per year

This role requires the ability to work lawfully in the U.S. without employment-based immigration sponsorship, now or in the future.
Are you ready to drive innovation and shape the future of technology at Spectrum? Join our team as a Distinguished Engineer, where your expertise and vision will influence both our organization and the wider industry. Collaborate with senior leaders, vendors, and partners to set technology direction and foster the adoption of cutting-edge solutions. If you excel at mentoring, thought leadership, and guiding transformative initiatives, Spectrum offers a unique platform to elevate your career while making a lasting impact.

• Work with senior leaders to shape the go-forward vision for the organization, drive thought leadership, business focus, and innovation across the organization
• Drive roadmaps to meet business goals, work with vendors and partners on the successful strategy, planning, and implementation of critical tooling and platforms
• Demonstrate strong technology roadmap influence within the organization to meet business goals; evaluate new technologies for adoption across the enterprise
• Attract, develop and motivate top talent; teach, mentor, grow, and advise other domain experts; mentor senior engineers on how to grow their careers and expand their sphere of influence
• Understand and articulate the value creation and business proposition to teams and functional partners
• Participate in and lead learning activities within the organization
• Promote and facilitate collaboration within teams and across organizations and connect teams facing similar challenges and problems to encourage consistency
• Attend conferences to learn and apply new technologies and demonstrate technical industry leadership through speaking engagements and publications.
• Motivate and mentor more junior engineers to become the natural technology leader of the organization
• Promote customer focus thought-out technology roadmaps; field questions from product, project, and support teams
• Evangelize successful usage of tooling and technologies across the organization and enterprise
• Actively engage in industry innovation and direction by learning new technologies and best practices through reading, tutorials, networking, and videos.
• Final escalation points for technology issues across organizations

• Office environment

• Education
  • Master's degree in Engineering
• Experience
  • 16+ years of engineering work experience
  • 16+ years of project management work experience
  • Extensive industry experience in network architectures, and technologies
• Skills
  • Ability to read, write, speak and understand English and effectively communicate complex problems in a simple and effective manner
  • Ability to perform duties in a very fast-paced environment, learn new technology quickly, and self-study new technologies
  • Ability to create a business case encompassing business and technology requirements
  • Ability to communicate technology to non-technical senior business leaders
  • Expert knowledge in network/platform/system design, architectures, protocols and relevant topologies, TCP/IP, IPv4 and IPv6 and the OSI Model, network devices, network applications and servers
  • Demonstrated some telecommunication industry leadership
  • Self-driven individual with the ability to deliver major projects with minimal supervision

• Education
  • Industry and vendor specific certifications and training (Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel-Lucent, etc.)