Technical Leader at Cisco

At Cisco, we are redefining how our customers experience technology through the power of Cisco IQ Services and Applications.

In this role, you will act as a key technical leader, shaping the overarching vision and future of our digital services.

Responsibilities:

Design and lead the hands-on implementation of next-generation, intelligent enterprise applications.
Embed autonomous and semi-autonomous agentic capabilities directly into business-critical application workflows.
Focus on the application layer,designing contract-first, spec-driven architectures that connect application business logic, user interfaces, and backend systems to reasoning models via Model Context Protocol (MCP) and modern API ecosystems.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
Bachelors +12 years of experience in back-end software architecture and core software development using Python, Node, Go, or Java.
Experience building and shipping complex enterprise or SaaS applications.
Production experience with LLM-backed applications: agent orchestration LangGraph, a state-machine runtime, structured tool calling, and failure handling.
Experience with a contract-first API design and schema modeling (OpenAPI, TypeSpec, GraphQL, gRPC).

Preferred Qualifications:

Domain expertise in networking protocols, large-scale infrastructure management, and system-level design.
Proficiency in designing and managing cloud-agnostic, distributed architectures across AWS, GCP, and private cloud environments.
Exceptional communication and executive presence, with the proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and translate high-level technical vision into actionable, long-term business outcomes.

Benefits:

Salary Range: $177,600.00 to $257,400.00

Technical Leader