Solution Architect-Data Centers

The Solution Architect-Data Centers is a senior technical expert responsible for defining, designing, and positioning end-to-end data center solutions that address customers' requirements for availability, resilience, scalability, energy efficiency, sustainability, and operational performance.

Working closely with customers, consultants, partners, sales teams, and Schneider Electric technical specialists, the Solution Architect translates complex business and technical requirements into integrated data center architectures across critical power, electrical distribution, cooling, automation, monitoring, digital platforms, and lifecycle services.

The role acts as a trusted technical advisor throughout the customer and project lifecycle, from early concept and design through technical specification, proposal development, solution validation, and handover. It combines deep technical expertise with strong customer engagement to differentiate Schneider Electric solutions, influence technical decisions, and support profitable business growth.

Solution Architecture & Technical Leadership

• Lead the development of end-to-end technical architectures for data center and mission-critical infrastructure, ensuring solutions are resilient, scalable, efficient, and commercially viable.
• Translate customer requirements, design criteria, capacity plans, and operational objectives into optimized technical solutions.
• Define integrated architectures covering critical power, UPS, electrical distribution, cooling, power quality, automation, monitoring, digital platforms, and lifecycle services.
• Assess technical trade-offs and recommend the optimum architecture considering availability, redundancy, efficiency, scalability, cost, maintainability, and total cost of ownership.
• Ensure compatibility and interoperability across different systems and technologies within the proposed architecture.
• Provide technical leadership and engineering judgment on complex or non-standard customer requirements.

Customer & Consultant Engagement

• Act as a trusted technical advisor to data center customers, consultants, designers, developers, operators, and engineering stakeholders.
• Lead customer workshops and technical discovery sessions to understand business requirements, design parameters, operating models, and future capacity needs.
• Engage early in the customer investment cycle to help shape data center architecture and influence technical specifications.
• Present solution concepts, architectural options, technical value propositions, and design recommendations to customer engineering and leadership teams.
• Challenge customer requirements constructively where alternative architectures can deliver improved resilience, energy efficiency, sustainability, scalability, or lifecycle performance.
• Develop strong relationships with key technical influencers within the hyperscale, colocation, cloud, enterprise, and digital infrastructure ecosystem.

Pre-Sales & Opportunity Support

• Partner with Key Account Managers and sales teams on strategic and technically complex data center opportunities.
• Lead the technical qualification of opportunities and determine the appropriate solution architecture and technical strategy.
• Develop solution concepts, technical proposals, architectures, specifications, compliance responses, and solution roadmaps.
• Support customer RFIs, RFPs, tenders, technical clarification meetings, and solution defense sessions.
• Identify technical differentiators that strengthen Schneider Electric's competitive position and articulate their value to customers.
• Support technical risk assessment and ensure proposed solutions are deliverable, competitive, and aligned with customer requirements.
• Contribute to technical negotiations and resolve complex architecture, specification, and integration issues during the sales process.

Data Center Technology & Innovation

• Maintain strong expertise in developments affecting modern data center design, including AI and high-density computing, liquid cooling, modular and prefabricated architectures, energy efficiency, sustainability, grid constraints, and digital operations.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and determine their relevance to customer challenges and future data center architectures.
• Translate evolving customer requirements into actionable technical insights for Schneider Electric teams.
• Provide feedback on advanced customer requirements and technology gaps to help inform future solution and offer development.
• Promote architectures that improve PUE, energy performance, infrastructure utilization, resilience, and carbon performance where relevant to customer objectives.