Director, Solution Architect-High Density Power
About The Position
The Solution Architect, High Density & 800VDC solutions serves as Vertiv’s primary technical lead with hyperscale and Frontier customers. The role works directly with customer engineering organizations to provide design assistance for next-generation DC power infrastructure architectures and enable engineered solutions from creation through deployment. The position develops a deep understanding of customers’ 800VDC roadmaps, design standards, operating requirements, and future infrastructure strategies, and aligns those needs with Vertiv product development. It owns the end-to-end High Density power architecture vision for customers, maintaining continuity from early concept development through prototyping, first-of-kind deployment, product development, and scaled production adoption. Success is measured by product penetration, orders, and market-share growth. The Solution Architect partners 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. The role is key to shaping Vertiv’s 800VDC strategy with Hyperscale and Frontier AI customers. Location is aligned with business and organizational requirements, with more than 50% travel based on customer and industry needs.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a 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.
Nice To Haves
- 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, such as OCP or IEEE.
- Recognized expertise in data center power architecture or mission-critical electrical systems.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with customer account engineering and design leaders and serve as Vertiv’s primary technical advisor for future 800VDC architecture decisions.
- Develop a deep understanding of customer technology roadmaps, design standards, operational requirements, and long-term infrastructure strategies.
- Represent customer technical priorities within Vertiv and keep stakeholders aligned with customer objectives and evolving requirements.
- Own customers’ 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 inform customer and Vertiv decisions.
- Lead technical discovery of emerging customer challenges, requirements, and opportunities.
- Identify 800VDC portfolio gaps, innovation opportunities, and future technology needs aligned with customer roadmaps.
- Develop first-of-kind concepts that support customers’ next-generation data center architectures.
- Influence Vertiv product roadmaps and technology investments using customer and industry insights.
- 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.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
