About this role
<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>About our group:</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif"><p>The Products & Markets organization partners with leading technology companies worldwide to deliver storage solutions at scale. We take a long-term perspective on market development, focus deeply on customer needs, and leverage a strong portfolio that drives industry innovation. The team connects strategy with execution, enabling collaboration across a diverse and cross-functional network to deliver meaningful business impact.</p></span></span></span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>About the role - you will:</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif"><p>We are hiring a Sr. Staff Cloud Architecture Lead to engage with China’s leading cloud service providers and enterprise partners at the system architecture level.</p> <p>This role focuses on understanding how storage is designed, deployed, and operated in large-scale environments, and using those insights to influence architecture decisions, strengthen customer partnerships, and shape Seagate’s product and business strategy.</p> <p>The architect lead operates as a trusted technical partner to customer engineering teams, contributing architectural perspective while learning from real-world implementations.</p> <p>Key Responsibilities<br>1) Customer Architecture Engagement<br>• Build deep relationships with customer R&D and infrastructure teams<br>• Engage in system-level architecture discussions, including design choices, trade-offs, and scaling challenges<br>• Understand how storage is deployed and used in real customer environments<br>• Identify opportunities to improve architecture and influence customer design decisions<br>• Drive ongoing, focused engagement with customer engineering teams on key technical topics<br>2) Translate Insights into Impact<br>• Capture learnings from customer environments and turn them into actionable insights<br>• Translate these insights into product requirements, roadmap input, and solution strategy<br>• Contribute to reference architectures and reusable solution approaches<br>• Partner with Product, Engineering and Customer Success teams to align on priorities<br>• Support key customer initiatives from early engagement through adoption</p></span></span></span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>About you:</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif"><p>• Fluent in Mandarin and English<br>• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills<br>• Willingness to travel within China to support customer engagement </p></span></span></span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Your experience includes:</b></H2> </div><div><p><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><span><span style="font-family:'Calibri', sans-serif"><p>• 10+ years' experience with strong technical background with experience in cloud computing, systems architecture, and data workloads. HDD industry background and experience preferred. <br>• Excellent knowledge of financial modeling and data analysis. <br>• Ability to learn quickly, adapt to change and solve unique customer problems. <br>• Passionate about technology and innovation. Ability to influence and inspire others.</p></span></span></span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Location:</b></H2> </div><div><p><p>Beijing / Hangzhou / Shenzhen preferred; exceptional candidates in other China locations will also be considered.</p></p> <p> </p> <p><b>Location</b>: Shenzhen, China, Beijing, China, Hangzhou, China<br> <b>Travel</b>: Up to 25%</p></div></div></div>