Description
Are you a technical visionary and a hands-on leader? Do you thrive on solving complex, real-world problems for major customers? Celestica is seeking a highly accomplished and forward-thinking Senior Director of Engineering to lead a critical customer engagement from our Shanghai office.
This isn't just a management role; it's a strategic leadership position that demands a unique blend of deep technical expertise, customer-centricity, and a passion for emerging technologies. You'll serve as the principal technical advisor for a key customer, driving innovation and delivering exceptional results that directly impact their business.
Your Impact & Responsibilities
As our Senior Director of Engineering, you will be the technical heart of a strategic customer engagement. Your key responsibilities include:
- Lead Technical Engagement: Serve as the primary technical leader and advisor, building trust and a deep understanding of the customer's business and technical challenges. You will architect and design innovative solutions, leveraging your expertise in areas like AI/ML, to meet their unique needs.
- Drive Engineering Excellence: Lead and mentor a high-performing global engineering team, championing best practices in the full software development lifecycle. You will foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and continuous improvement, from design to deployment.
- Ensure Quality Outcomes: Take accountability for project success by defining and implementing robust quality assurance processes. You will proactively identify and mitigate risks, ensuring all deliverables consistently exceed customer expectations.
- Engage with the Industry: We're looking for a leader who is active in the tech community. Your engagement with standards bodies and open-source projects like the Linux Foundation, OpenBMC, or IETF is highly valued.
- Influence & Communicate: This is a highly visible role that requires you to interact with executives and major customers. You will effectively communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences, setting technical direction and responding to escalations with professionalism and clarity.
Requirements
Your Expertise
- Deep Experience: You have 15+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of designing and delivering complex software solutions.
Technical Mastery: You are an expert in software engineering principles, design patterns, and architectural best practices. Hands-on experience with C/C++, Python, Linux kernel, platform drivers, and networking chipsets is a must. - Strategic & Customer-Centric: You are a strategic thinker who can translate customer needs into technical solutions. Your exceptional communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills allow you to build strong, lasting customer relationships.
- Quality & Leadership: You possess a deep understanding of quality assurance methodologies and a proven ability to lead and mentor engineering teams to foster a high-performing environment.
This is a unique opportunity to lead a team at the forefront of technology while solving some of the most challenging problems for our most important customers. If you're a leader who wants to make a direct impact, we encourage you to apply.
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.
