Job Description

Job Description

Come and join us! Intel is seeking highly qualified candidates to join our Data Platforms Group (DPG) as a Solutions Architect!
Do you enjoy working with cutting edge technology? Solving customer problems? Working with cross-functional teams? Consider joining the Intel Optane Group as a persistent memory Solutions Architect.

The Solutions Architect (SA) is primarily responsible for developing, documenting, training and enabling memory and storage solutions for Enterprise on-premise and Cloud Customers using Intel Optane Persistent Memory for a variety of data center usages, such as SAP HANA, Virtualized infrastructure, Redis, Oracle and Cassandra. They are responsible for deploying and operating proof of concepts of these solutions and assisting end customers as they deploy this new technology. Because this is a new technology, enabling it can go far beyond traditional or current industry approaches and include some element of pathfinding.

This role requires cross-discipline knowledge of server architecture from compute, memory, storage, and network to IT end-user workloads and applications. The SA is responsible for the engineering concept, design and implementation of innovative, cost effective and high-performance persistent memory solutions across various Intel teams and business groups in a manner that allows ease of use, effective collateral compilation to support marketing activities and quick adoption by users. The SA will specify and refine the requirements of hardware, software applications, OS/hypervisors, management, monitoring, and performance testing to develop compelling proof points supporting customer use cases.

This role requires software engineering knowledge from database to infrastructure in both enterprise and cloud applications. The SA should have a deep understanding of operational and reliability aspects of systems they build, including resource management, networking protocol stacks, file systems, troubleshooting and monitoring. The SA will be accountable for architecting and designing comprehensive technical solutions that meet end-customer requirements, accountable for partnering with business partners to characterize solutions that are aligned to Intel business needs and gains acceptance of high-level design and detailed design documentation through enterprise and peer design reviews. You will also need to deeply understand the memory and storage subsystem of server architecture.

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
Proposed solutions that demonstrate a performance/Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) advantage to end users.

Clear requirements for test plans and metrics to support documentation of the advantages.

End-user POC enablement and support for these solutions.

Developing technical sales collateral that will enable field teams to scale the solution.

Documented proof points using benchmarking, customer test results, or ISV/OEM/CSP test measurements.

Engineer to Engineer working sessions with customers considering Optane Persistent Memory to help them adopt.

Influence across Intel and ISV/CSP/OEM to guide future product definition, required code enhancements and required testing/analysis needed to improve performance on Optane Persistent Memory and to enable application direct data persistence.

Soft Skills:
Team player, with a demonstrated experience technically influencing others.

Strong problem-solving skills.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field with 9+ years of relevant industry experience.

Minimum Required Qualifications:

* 5+ years of experience working with customers on data center solutions (i.e. HPC, Cloud, Big data, virtualized infrastructure, etc.).
* 3+ years of experience with enterprise or cloud workloads, applications, and/or performance benchmarking.
* 3+ years of experience in market usage in one or more of the following: in-memory databases, virtualization, containers, big data software stacks, HPC, or cloud solutions.

Additional Preferred Qualifications:

* 3+ years of experience with memory or storage-based solutions.
* 2+ years of experience in sales or marketing of technical solutions.
* 2+ years of experience working with cloud architectures.

Inside this Business Group
The Data Center Group (DCG) is at the heart of Intels transformation from a PC company to a company that runs the cloud and billions of smart, connected computing devices. The data center is the underpinning for every data-driven service, from artificial intelligence to 5G to high-performance computing, and DCG delivers the products and technologiesspanning software, processors, storage, I/O, and networking solutionsthat fuel cloud, communications, enterprise, and government data centers around the world.

Other Locations

US, California, Folsom;US, Oregon, Hillsboro

Posting Statement

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance.

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