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Req ID: 125833
Region: Americas
Country: United States
State/Province: California
City: San Jose
General Overview
Functional Area: Engineering (ENG)
Career Stream: Product Design (DSN)
Role: Director 2 (DR2)
Job Title: Director, Network Software System Achitecture
Job Code: DR3-ENG-DSN
Job Level: Level 13
Direct/Indirect Indicator: Indirect
Summary
This position is for a Director of Design Engineering, Network Software System Architect. As software system architect leader, one will engage with customers to promote and define the architecture, topology, and features of leading and competitive AI fabrics, control and monitoring, and broader data center networks. The role focuses on a deep technical relationship with customers as a trusted advisor on our existing portfolio, capabilities, as well as new technology research and market trends in this space. Although the position is primarily a software based, the candidate must have strong knowledge in AI systems design including AI training and inference workloads and performance demands.
The candidate must be a thought leader, with strong communication skills and be forward thinking. Additionally, as a people leader, they will build and groom a team of high performing engineers, working with them on objective setting and professional development initiatives.
The candidate will regularly interact with executives and/or major customers. Interactions may involve readouts, strategic direction setting or responding professionally and proactively to potential escalations. They may also represent the organization in public speaking venues and/or community events.
Detailed Description

• Define, review, and recommend complex networking solutions, as well as related optimization, performant, and monitoring strategies. Focus on SONiC based AI Fabrics and how they evolve to meet the demands of future networks.
• Develop and maintain close technical relationships with customers and key technology and partners on product roadmaps.
• Lead RFQ SW and/or system technical responses and Celestica platform concept development efforts as appropriate.
• Provide effective trade-off analysis and competitive guidance to engineering teams and customers.
• Enable effective demonstrations of target solutions and features through specific POCs, managing high valued customer expectations.
• Deliverables include System Requirements Documents (SRD), requirement compliance assessments, and Technical proposals.
• Act as a primary technical interface between Celestica and our customers, particularly in technical escalation.
• 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 as assigned.
• Prepare and present technical presentations to customers, industry groups, tradeshows, etc.
• Maintain current on industry trends and future technology and market opportunities.
  

Knowledge/Skills/Competencies

• Proven Leader: 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with a demonstrated ability to lead and deliver complex projects in a customer-facing role.
• Technical Depth: Strong foundation in software engineering principles, design patterns, and relevant technologies (e.g., cloud computing, micro-services, AI/ML).
• Working experience with SONiC, NIC SW Stacks, and competitive references with NVidia, Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and others.
• Customer Focus: Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills, with a proven ability to build strong customer relationships.
• Quality Advocate: Deep understanding of quality assurance methodologies and a passion for delivering high-quality solutions.
• Emerging Tech Savvy: Experience with and understanding of emerging technologies, with the ability to identify and leverage them to solve customer challenges.
• Strategic Thinker: Able to translate customer needs into technical solutions and align engineering efforts with business goals.
• Thought leader: Be a thought leader for internal and external stakeholders, able to network effectively in a global environment.
  

Physical Demands
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.
Typical Experience
Fifteen plus years relevant working experience
Typical Education
Bachelors degree in Engineering or related field, or consideration of equivalent combination of education and work experience.
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.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Celestica’s policy on equal employment opportunity prohibits discrimination based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, veteran or disability status, or other characteristics protected by law.
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.
Company Overview
Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development – from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers.
Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted.
Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.

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