Director, Field System Architect

About the role

The Field System Architect Director (FSA) will lead the design and implementation of complex compute and storage platform solutions. They will oversee a team of Field System Architects (FSAs) in conducting new technology research, analyzing market trends, managing customer relationships, and guiding Celestica’s design team within the compute and storage sector.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to define complex compute / storage platform solutions and lead a multi-disciplined team to bring to implementation. Extensive and focused engagement through EVT, phasing out thereafter. Ensure overall design quality metrics are met.
• Define goals and objectives of the team within a broader collaborative environment between Technology, Development, and Customer teams.
• Develop and maintain close technical relationships with suppliers/partners on product roadmaps and technologies.
• Oversee the RFQ technical response process.
• Enable the R&D/Design team with deliverables such as system requirements documents (SRD), requirement compliance assessments, and technical proposals.
• Is the primary technical interface between Celestica and our medium to large scale customers, particularly in technical definition and escalation.
• Act as spokesperson and technical authority in trade shows, interviews, blogs, and panel appearances. Influences the creation and roadmap of the outreach strategy for the department.
• Provide technical support to business development teams to assist in the winning of new business.
• Identify and Champion process improvement efforts as needed.
• Participate in standards committees and industry groups.
• Prepare and present technical presentations to customers, industry groups, tradeshows, etc.
• Anticipate current industry trends and future technology and market opportunities.

Qualifications

• Exceptional leadership and strategic thinking skills.
• Excellent Customer presentation skills. Interface and interact with large OEM and hyperscaler customers on ongoing product related issues and new product design concepts.
• Successful New Product Introduction (NPI) launch.
• The successful candidate will be a self-motivated individual capable of working with a minimum of supervision in a dynamic team environment.
• Good interpersonal skills: be able to communicate effectively with members of other teams, departments and clients; as a high degree of liaison is needed.
• Experience with relevant leading technologies in compute / storage products including:
• CPUs including X86, Atom, Xeon, AMD
• NPU devices including all Broadcom families (Trident, Tomahawk, Jericho, Ramon), as well as alternative device families such as Cisco, Marvell, or Mellanox are desired
• High speed design including PCB materials, Serdes technology (112G+), connector, cable, and parasitic challenges in design
• Power devices including multi-stage and near load delivery
• Advanced assembly techniques / challenges affecting design
• Optics devices and technology – trade-offs and trends
• Mechanical design challenges/flexibility as it impacts architecture
• Minimum of 15 years' relevant hardware design experience at the system level (compute / storage, server, storage, compute).
• Prior participation in industry groups and associations is required.
• System level integration, interoperability and test experience is required.
• System level manufacturing test experience is required.
• A broad knowledge of current digital and analogue components.

Physical Demands

• Duties of this position are performed in a normal office environment.
• Duties may require extended periods of sitting and sustained visual concentration on a computer monitor or on numbers and other detailed data.
• Repetitive manual movements are frequently required (e.g. data entry, using a computer mouse, using a calculator, etc).
• International travel required, approximately 4-6 trips per year.
• Domestic travel to support customer and internal meetings as required.

Notes

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees are held accountable for all duties of the job. Job duties and the % of time identified for any function are subject to change at any time.

Celestica is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.

This policy applies to hiring, promotion, discharge, pay, fringe benefits, job training, classification, referral and other aspects of employment and also states that retaliation against a person who files a charge of discrimination, participates in a discrimination proceeding, or otherwise opposes an unlawful employment practice will not be tolerated. All information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Celestica is an E-Verify employer.

Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.