Data Center Solutions Architect

🕒 June 12

🌪️ Kansas, Kentucky, +2 more states – Remote

🌪️ Kansas – Remote 🐎 Kentucky – Remote ⚜️ Louisiana – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote

💵 $146.9k - $246.2k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Daikin Applied Americas

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1924

🤝 B2B

🔧 Hardware

⚡ Energy

B2B • Hardware • Energy

Daikin Applied Americas is a commercial and industrial HVAC and building solutions company that designs, manufactures, and supports air management equipment and services across North America. The company provides rooftop systems, chillers, air handlers, heat pumps, air purifiers, building controls (SiteLine), rental solutions, and IoT-enabled energy- and IAQ-focused technologies for commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings, emphasizing energy efficiency and decarbonization.

📋 Description

• 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 in San Diego. • 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 Daikin 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.

🎯 Requirements

• 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

• 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