Director, Field System Architect

Summary

As the Field System Architect Director (FSA), you will leverage your expertise and leadership skills in the market and customer domains to define the compute / storage product and system architecture. You will lead a team of FSAs as they conduct new technology research, analyze market trends, manage customer relationships, and guide Celestica’s design team within the compute / storageing product sector. Your contributions will help influence and execute department and company strategy.

This is a leadership role that requires a broad understanding of a mix of hardware and software/firmware, mechanical, thermal, layout, SI, and test teams in the context of system architecture. It is essential to effectively align with the R&D team and possess customer-facing experience interacting with architects and R&D professionals from OEM and Hyperscalar market segments. A strong knowledge of compute / storage product design across various market segments, including enterprise access, data center infrastructure, and Telco data communications, is required. You should be experienced in the implementation considerations and trade-offs between cost-effective lower-end systems and complex modular high-performance compute / storage chassis systems.  Your technical knowledge and leadership skills will help plan and direct the roadmap for the department in alignment with broader company goals. 

Key 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:

Essential Skills:

• 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:

• Experience with relevant leading technologies in compute / storage products including:
  • CPU devices 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 designcompute / storage performance characteristics and related device optimization features
  • 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