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Principal Solutions Architect

Solutions EngineerSolutions EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 501-1,000Since 2000Company SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

5 days ago

Salary

$175K - $200K / year

Seniority

Lead

Postgraduate Degree15 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

Principal Solutions Architect

Flexential

• Independently define and lead solution strategy for high-value and strategic sales pursuits, acting as the principal technical authority for data center infrastructure, interconnection, power, and mechanical system design. • Proactively engage strategic customers during pre-sales cycles to anticipate long-term architectural needs, business drivers, growth plans, and infrastructure risks. • Architect non-standard, highly complex physical infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with customer priorities, internal facility capabilities, and long-term platform strategy. • Lead customer requirement-gathering sessions and executive workshops, translating technical constraints into clear architectural approaches and business narratives. • Provide executive-level technical storytelling and solution justification during RFP responses, design workshops, and final customer selection processes. • Serve as the final escalation point for solution integrity, ensuring designs meet engineering standards, resilience objectives, and customer business outcomes. • Establish, evolve, and evangelize architectural standards, reference designs, and best practices for physical data center infrastructure. • Perform advanced technical evaluations, modeling, and design validation for solutions requiring non-standard engineering or novel approaches. • Influence product strategy, infrastructure investment decisions, and long-range capacity and resilience planning through customer insight and technical research. • Act as an informal technical leader across Architecture, Engineering, Product, Operations, and Sales organizations without formal authority. • Translate complex infrastructure designs into quantified business outcomes, including ROI, TCO, and risk analysis. • Serve as a primary external technical evangelist, as appropriate based on business needs and individual strengths, representing the company at conferences, industry panels, standards bodies, and customer executive briefings. • Author white papers, technical briefs, and thought leadership content that position the company as an industry leader in data center and interconnection infrastructure. • Initiate and drive the development of internal tools, calculators, design frameworks, and enablement materials for Solutions Engineering & Architecture teams.

Job Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in data center engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical systems, facilities design, or related mission-critical infrastructure fields.
  • Deep expertise in power distribution systems, heat rejection systems, mechanical engineering, and facility resilience modeling.
  • Strong understanding of data center construction methodologies, commissioning processes, and electrical fit-outs.
  • Proven ability to translate engineering complexity into business outcomes such as ROI, TCO, and risk quantification.
  • Demonstrated experience presenting at industry events or authoring externally facing technical content.
  • Exceptional communication skills across executive, customer, and engineering audiences.
  • Demonstrated history of influencing cross-functional strategy and technical direction without formal authority.
  • Preferred Qualifications Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.

Benefits

  • Medical, Telehealth, Dental and Vision
  • 401(k)
  • Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
  • Life and AD&D
  • Short Term and Long-Term disability
  • Flex Paid Time Off (PTO)
  • Leave of Absence
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Wellness Program
  • Rewards and Recognition Program

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