Principal Consultant – Fiber Network Architect

🔥 14 hours ago

🌵 Arizona, Illinois, +7 more states – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote 🏖️ New Jersey – Remote 🌲 Oregon – Remote 🚗 Michigan – Remote 🎸 Tennessee – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote ⚔️ Virginia – Remote ☕ Washington – Remote

💵 $130k - $165k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Computacenter

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1981

💼 Consulting

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

Consulting • SaaS • Cybersecurity

Computacenter is a leading independent technology and services provider, assisting large corporate and public sector organisations in transforming their operations to achieve their business goals. The company focuses on building long-term relationships with its clients, delivering tailored solutions across technology sourcing, professional services, and managed services to enhance productivity and security. With a commitment to sustainability and social responsibility, Computacenter prioritizes its impact on people and the planet, ensuring it delivers value that aligns with the needs of its customers.

📋 Description

• Serve as a senior technical and client-facing subject matter expert across complex data center engagements • Partner with business leaders to deliver services supporting company objectives and Winning Together values • Identify and contact potential clients for new business engagements • Build relationships with existing clients and support repeat business • Maintain frequent client communication, conduct regular client visits, and ensure client satisfaction • Determine project scope, budgets, and timelines with clients and management • Develop business proposals, SOWs, reports, functional and technical specifications, estimates, and solution recommendations • Negotiate project terms and conditions with clients • Implement product development initiatives to meet future client needs • Identify project risks and challenges and develop resolution plans • Schedule client meetings, process invoices, and review engagement letters • Provide project training to clients • Identify business opportunities and convert them into projects • Plan and manage multiple projects • Track project progress, correct delays, and report project status to clients • Act as Fiber Subject Matter Expert for hyperscale data center design, deployment, commissioning, and remediation • Lead and review structured cabling and optical fiber designs, including backbone, horizontal, inter-rack, and high-density connectivity architectures • Provide technical guidance on single-mode and multimode fiber systems, MPO/MTP and LC connectivity, polarity, loss budgets, pathway planning, labeling, and cable management • Validate fiber infrastructure against BICSI, TIA, ISO/IEC, and customer-specific data center standards • Develop and review fiber test plans, MOPs, acceptance criteria, and quality-control processes • Provide expertise in Tier 1 and Tier 2 fiber testing, optical loss testing, polarity/continuity validation, OTDR analysis, inspection/cleanliness, and failed-link troubleshooting • Analyze fiber test results and field conditions, identify root causes, recommend corrective actions, and close installation and performance issues • Provide technical leadership to project engineers, technicians, subcontractors, and customer teams • Review drawings, bills of material, fiber matrices, port maps, test documentation, and as-built records • Support client design reviews, technical workshops, proposals, SOW development, estimating, and solution recommendations • Embrace and support Computacenter’s mission and core values

🎯 Requirements

• Legally eligible to work in the United States • Minimum of five (5) years of hands-on experience supporting fiber infrastructure in hyperscale data center environments • Current BICSI Data Center Design Consultant (DCDC) certification required • Current BICSI Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD) certification required • Demonstrated experience with high-density fiber design, installation, testing, commissioning, troubleshooting, and documentation in large-scale mission-critical environments • Proven ability to lead technical troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across complex, high-volume fiber environments • Ability to develop standards, best practices, installation procedures, testing methodologies, and acceptance criteria for large-scale fiber deployments • Ability to interpret data center drawings, fiber matrices, cable schedules, rack elevations, port maps, and test reports • Proficiency with fiber inspection and test equipment, including optical loss test sets (OLTS), optical power meters/light sources, and OTDR platforms • Strong knowledge of fiber types, connector systems, MPO/MTP polarity methods, optical budgets, insertion loss, reflectance, and link performance requirements • Expert-level knowledge of hyperscale data center fiber infrastructure and structured cabling systems • Ability to take ownership of queries and manage them through prompt resolution • Creative and analytical approach to problem solving • Credible, capable professional and expert in the relevant field • Broad knowledge of the business benefits that technical solutions can provide • Experience dealing with and influencing multi-tier management • Good working knowledge of relevant functional systems • Experience developing best-practice policies and procedures for a functional area • Strong written and verbal communication skills • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to present in a group setting • Prefer a strong working knowledge of computer system applications such as Windows, Microsoft Office, OSX, and Salesforce

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation plans • Long-term career opportunities • Benefit plans supporting good health, future financial security, and peace of mind