What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Center Solutions Architect position at IntePros?
Position Summary
The Solutions Architect is a senior technical leader within client’s Data Center of Excellence (CoE). This role leads the development of standardized reference architectures and drives technical strategy across the full data-center thermal value chain—from chip to chiller.
Here are the top 3 skills from the hiring manager.
This is a highly visible role that blends engineering depth with commercial impact. This role directly enhances client’s competitive position by strengthening market credibility and customer trust with best‑in‑class technical engagement and increasing design wins through direct customer influence.
Reducing technical and commercial risk via validated architectures and PoC testing. Accelerating product innovation through real‑world performance insights and solution leadership.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Technical Leader and expert in the Data Center Solutions specialty to develop and govern standardized cooling reference architectures for AI-focused data center deployments.
Define system-level topology across liquid cooling, air cooling, plant design, and heat rejection strategies.
Architect integrated solutions that align thermal systems, electrical constraints, controls philosophy, and operational resilience.
Establish design guardrails, scalability boundaries, and redundancy strategies.
Support proof-of-concept testing, performance benchmarking, interoperability validation, and technical demonstrations within the Data Center CoE Innovation Lab.
Lead cross-functional architecture reviews across engineering, product, service, and commercial teams.
Drive techno-economic trade studies balancing performance, reliability, footprint, manufacturability, and cost.
Define control philosophy and system orchestration standards across plant equipment and distribution systems.
Incorporate field performance feedback and commissioning lessons into architecture evolution to make improvements to products
Support customer-facing technical discussions with hyperscale, enterprise, and colocation stakeholders.
Contribute to long-term product and platform strategy alignment.
Engage selectively with external stakeholders to position client's solutions early in design cycles.
Strong ability to articulate both system-level architecture and product-level technical detail in executive and customer-facing settings.
Sales-aware mindset with the ability to influence customer design decisions and guide solution alignment.
Excellent communication skills, emotional intelligence, and executive presence in customer and partner interactions.
Highly collaborative and effective in cross-functional environments, aligned with CoE team culture.
Ability to travel to the San Diego Innovation Lab, customer sites, partner facilities, and internal meetings as required.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
Experience contributing to or governing formal reference architectures or system design standards.
Exposure to AI-focused or high-density computing infrastructure.
Experience supporting proof-of-concept validation, performance benchmarking, or interoperability testing.
Familiarity with system modeling, energy analysis, or simulation tools.
Experience presenting technical strategy to executive stakeholders.
Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
BSc Mechanical, electrical, systems, industrial, or automation engineering
10 years’ experience
Technical expert in at least one major data center domain (mechanical systems, thermal cooling, controls, integration, or systems architecture), with the ability to think across domains at the system level.
Experience in mission-critical infrastructure system design.
Demonstrated expertise in liquid cooling integration and central plant architectures.
Strong understanding of redundancy models and high-availability system design.
Working knowledge of plant control strategies and integrated system operation.
Demonstrated business acumen with experience evaluating architecture decisions through lifecycle cost, capital efficiency, operational impact, and market positioning.
Experience conducting or contributing to structured technical and commercial trade studies.
Benefits
Our client offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
Multiple medical insurance plan options dental and vision insurance
401K retirement plan with employer contributions matching 100% of the first 3% of employee contributions and 50% of the next 2% of employee contributions
Company provided life insurance optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance, dependent life coverage, and voluntary accident coverage
Short-term and long-term disability
3 weeks of paid time off for new employees 11 company-paid holidays
Vacation accrues on a monthly basis, unless applicable federal, state, and local law requires a faster accrual
Paid sick time in accordance with the federal, state, and local law
Paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement after 6 months of continuous service
The Solutions Architect is a senior technical leader within client’s Data Center of Excellence (CoE). This role leads the development of standardized reference architectures and drives technical strategy across the full data-center thermal value chain—from chip to chiller.
Here are the top 3 skills from the hiring manager.
- Overall system knowledge (or at least ability to acquire that overall system knowledge fairly quickly. By system I mean thermal system, not the IT, Electrical, system).
- One strong technical area of knowledge (ideally something in the white space, we don't need more chiller people)
- Ability to talk to customer confidently and shape their technical opinions as thought leader (Yet, I am not looking for a technical sales)
This is a highly visible role that blends engineering depth with commercial impact. This role directly enhances client’s competitive position by strengthening market credibility and customer trust with best‑in‑class technical engagement and increasing design wins through direct customer influence.
Reducing technical and commercial risk via validated architectures and PoC testing. Accelerating product innovation through real‑world performance insights and solution leadership.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
Technical Leader and expert in the Data Center Solutions specialty to develop and govern standardized cooling reference architectures for AI-focused data center deployments.
Define system-level topology across liquid cooling, air cooling, plant design, and heat rejection strategies.
Architect integrated solutions that align thermal systems, electrical constraints, controls philosophy, and operational resilience.
Establish design guardrails, scalability boundaries, and redundancy strategies.
Support proof-of-concept testing, performance benchmarking, interoperability validation, and technical demonstrations within the Data Center CoE Innovation Lab.
Lead cross-functional architecture reviews across engineering, product, service, and commercial teams.
Drive techno-economic trade studies balancing performance, reliability, footprint, manufacturability, and cost.
Define control philosophy and system orchestration standards across plant equipment and distribution systems.
Incorporate field performance feedback and commissioning lessons into architecture evolution to make improvements to products
Support customer-facing technical discussions with hyperscale, enterprise, and colocation stakeholders.
Contribute to long-term product and platform strategy alignment.
Engage selectively with external stakeholders to position client's solutions early in design cycles.
Strong ability to articulate both system-level architecture and product-level technical detail in executive and customer-facing settings.
Sales-aware mindset with the ability to influence customer design decisions and guide solution alignment.
Excellent communication skills, emotional intelligence, and executive presence in customer and partner interactions.
Highly collaborative and effective in cross-functional environments, aligned with CoE team culture.
Ability to travel to the San Diego Innovation Lab, customer sites, partner facilities, and internal meetings as required.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
Experience contributing to or governing formal reference architectures or system design standards.
Exposure to AI-focused or high-density computing infrastructure.
Experience supporting proof-of-concept validation, performance benchmarking, or interoperability testing.
Familiarity with system modeling, energy analysis, or simulation tools.
Experience presenting technical strategy to executive stakeholders.
Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities
BSc Mechanical, electrical, systems, industrial, or automation engineering
10 years’ experience
Technical expert in at least one major data center domain (mechanical systems, thermal cooling, controls, integration, or systems architecture), with the ability to think across domains at the system level.
Experience in mission-critical infrastructure system design.
Demonstrated expertise in liquid cooling integration and central plant architectures.
Strong understanding of redundancy models and high-availability system design.
Working knowledge of plant control strategies and integrated system operation.
Demonstrated business acumen with experience evaluating architecture decisions through lifecycle cost, capital efficiency, operational impact, and market positioning.
Experience conducting or contributing to structured technical and commercial trade studies.
Benefits
Our client offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
Multiple medical insurance plan options dental and vision insurance
401K retirement plan with employer contributions matching 100% of the first 3% of employee contributions and 50% of the next 2% of employee contributions
Company provided life insurance optional employee-paid voluntary life insurance, dependent life coverage, and voluntary accident coverage
Short-term and long-term disability
3 weeks of paid time off for new employees 11 company-paid holidays
Vacation accrues on a monthly basis, unless applicable federal, state, and local law requires a faster accrual
Paid sick time in accordance with the federal, state, and local law
Paid parental leave and tuition reimbursement after 6 months of continuous service