What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Solution Architect-High Density Power position at Vertiv?
Position Overview
The Solution Architect, High Density & 800VDC solutions serve as Vertiv's primary technical lead with hyperscale and Frontier customers, working directly with engineering organizations providing design assistance on next-generation DC power infrastructure architectures enabling best in class engineered solution from creation to deployment.
The Solution Architect develops a deep understanding of the customer's 800VDC roadmap, design standards, operating requirements, and future infrastructure strategies, and drives alignment with Vertiv product development requirements. The role owns the end-to-end High Density power architecture vision for the customer and provides continuity from early concept development through prototype, first-of-kind deployment, product development, and scaled production adoption. Success will be measured by product penetration, orders and market share growth.
The Solution Architect partners closely with Global Account Directors, Architects, Business Unit engineering teams, Technical Sales, and Application Engineering to translate customer requirements into differentiated Vertiv solutions and long-term portfolio opportunities. This role is key to shaping Vertiv’s 800VDC strategy with Hyperscale and Frontier AI customers.
Key Responsibilities
Customer Engineering Leadership
- Build trusted relationships with account engineering and design leaders, serving as Vertiv's primary technical advisor for future 800VDC architecture decisions.
- Develop deep understanding of customer technology roadmaps, design standards, operational requirements, and long-term infrastructure strategies.
- Represent customer technical priorities within Vertiv, ensuring stakeholders remain aligned to customer objectives and evolving requirements.
Architecture & Solution Development
- Own the customer's end-to-end power architecture strategy from concept through deployment.
- Lead development of future-state 800VDC architectures and scalable reference designs with customer engineering teams.
- Translate customer objectives and roadmaps into system requirements, reference architectures, and design principles.
- Evaluate technology alternatives, design tradeoffs, and long-term operational impacts to support customer and Vertiv decision-making.
Innovation & Future Technologies
- Lead technical discovery of emerging customer challenges, requirements, and opportunities.
- Identify 800VDC portfolio gaps, innovation opportunities, and future technology needs aligned to customer roadmaps.
- Develop first-of-kind concepts supporting customer’s next-generation data center architecture.
- Influence Vertiv product roadmaps and technology investments through customer and industry insights.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Coordinate GBU engineering, product management, and systems teams to deliver customer-driven development priorities.
- Support Global Account Directors in strategic customer engagements and planning activities.
- Drive alignment across customer and Vertiv stakeholders to accelerate solution development and deployment.
Qualifications
Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related discipline
- Experience leading architecture, design, or technical solution development for large-scale mission-critical power infrastructure deployments
- Deep expertise in mission-critical power systems and data center infrastructure
- Demonstrated success working directly with hyperscale and frontier AI engineering organizations
- Strong understanding of power distribution, protection, controls, and power quality systems
- Experience translating customer requirements into scalable technical solutions
- Ability to influence multidisciplinary teams without direct authority
- Strong technical communication and presentation capabilities
Preferred
- Advanced engineering degree, Professional Engineer (PE) license or equivalent technical credentials
- Experience supporting major hyperscale and/or frontier cloud providers
- Experience developing first-of-kind infrastructure solutions
- Experience influencing product roadmaps and technology investments
- Experience bringing concepts from architecture through production deployment
- Participation in industry standards bodies or technical forums (e.g., OCP, IEEE)
- Recognized expertise in data center power architecture or mission-critical electrical systems
Measures of Success
- Customer adoption of Vertiv-supported 800VDC architecture and basis-of-design
- Growth enabled by the technical organization
- Portfolio alignment with strategic customer requirements
- Successful advancement of first-of-kind concepts to deployment
- Strength of customer engineering relationships
Location and Travel
- Location aligned with business and organizational requirements
- >50% travel based on customer and industry needs