Principal Systems Lead - Data Center Infrastructure

System Architecture & Platform Strategy 

• Own the overall system architecture across cooling and power product platforms, ensuring coherence between mechanical, electrical, controls, and configuration structures. 

• Define and maintain modular design strategies that enable product reuse, scalability, maintainability, and isolation of change across product families. 

• Architect system and model structures that anticipate future growth, option expansion, regional requirements, and evolving customer needs. 

• Establish architectural frameworks that reduce lifecycle complexity and eliminate recurring design churn. 

• Continuously evaluate platform health and identify opportunities to improve scalability, reuse, and engineering efficiency. 

Product Variants & Lifecycle Scalability 

• Define and govern product variant strategies supporting different capacities, ratings, redundancy schemes, and regional compliance requirements. 

• Ensure variants are implemented through structured configuration logic rather than duplication, exceptions, or manual workarounds. 

• Enable product family growth without destabilizing released designs or increasing operational complexity. 

• Drive consistency between architectural intent, configuration structures, and released product definitions. 

CAD Standards & Design Frameworks 

• Establish and maintain CAD architecture standards, model structure requirements, interface rules, and engineering best practices. 

• Define templates, skeletons, references, and reusable design frameworks that support long-term maintainability and consistency. 

• Ensure alignment between CAD architecture, PLM structures, configuration management processes, and release requirements. 

• Continuously improve standards based on engineering feedback, recurring issues, and lifecycle lessons learned. 

Technical Leadership & Design Authority 

• Serve as the primary technical authority during system-level and cross-functional design reviews. 

• Guide technically sound decisions balancing performance, complexity, scalability, manufacturability, serviceability, and lifecycle impact. 

• Resolve conflicting requirements or ambiguous design directions by aligning decisions to architectural principles and long-term product objectives. 

• Act as the escalation point for complex integration challenges and cross-domain technical issues. 

• Drive technical decision-making, issue resolution, and action-item closure resulting from architecture reviews and critical engineering discussions. 

Cross-Functional Alignment & Execution 

• Work closely with ME CAD, EE CAD, controls, manufacturing, quality, service, and PLM/configuration teams to ensure architectural intent is properly implemented and maintained. 

• Drive cross-functional execution across engineering disciplines by establishing priorities, coordinating technical activities, and managing dependencies. 

• Identify architectural risks, technical blockers, and organizational gaps that may impact product development, releases, or platform scalability. 

• Facilitate resolution of technical issues and ensure timely closure of architecture-related action items. 

• Partner with stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle to ensure architecture supports design, procurement, manufacturing, testing, deployment, and service objectives. 

• Influence execution through technical leadership, credibility, clear communication, and sound engineering judgment rather than formal managerial authority. 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent professional experience. 

• 10+ years of experience designing and architecting complex electromechanical systems. 

• Demonstrated experience owning system architecture within multi-variant product environments. 

• Deep understanding of modular design, product platforms, configuration logic, and lifecycle scalability. 

• Strong understanding of CAD architectures, configuration management, and PLM-driven product development. 

• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives involving multiple engineering disciplines. 

• Proven ability to prioritize work, manage dependencies, drive execution, and achieve closure without direct supervisory authority. 

• Ability to operate independently as a senior technical authority across organizational boundaries. 

Strongly Preferred Experience 

• Architecture ownership for CDUs, chillers, HVAC systems, liquid cooling infrastructure, or power distribution equipment. 

• Experience supporting product families with multiple capacities, redundancy schemes, regional requirements, and customer-specific variants. 

• Deep familiarity with CAD, PLM, configuration management, and release processes. 

• Experience driving technical execution within matrixed engineering organizations. 

• Experience reducing organizational load and increasing engineering velocity through improved architecture and design practices. 

• Experience supporting both NPI and sustaining engineering environments. 

Core Competencies 

• System-level architectural thinking 

• Product platform strategy and modularization 

• Cross-functional execution leadership 

• Prioritization and dependency management 

• Technical decision-making and risk management 

• Action-oriented problem solving and issue resolution 

• Lifecycle engineering and configuration management 

• Ability to prevent churn through foresight and structure 

• Clear technical communication across disciplines 

• Independent technical authority without people management responsibility