Principal SME, Utility & Grid Infrastructure

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $205k / year

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Vantage Data Centers

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2010

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏭 Manufacturing

Consulting • Logistics • Manufacturing

Vantage Data Centers is a company specializing in the design, development, and operation of highly flexible and scalable data centers. These data centers cater to hyperscalers, cloud providers, and large enterprises, offering state-of-the-art facilities across 5 continents and 21 markets. Vantage focuses on providing large-scale campuses that enable customers to grow steadily, with over 23 million square feet dedicated to data center space and 2. 6GW+ of power capacity. Committed to sustainability and efficiency, Vantage ensures 100% uptime with standardized designs offering predictability and performance. The company is backed by prominent investors such as DigitalBridge Group and Silver Lake, maintaining a strong financial standing and excellent customer satisfaction rates.

📋 Description

• Serve as the technical authority for utility engagement, grid interconnection, transmission and distribution infrastructure, substations, power quality, utility tariffs, regulatory considerations and grid-connected Energy Hub architectures • Own the integrity, usability and evolution of utility service technical standards, reference architectures, risk assessment frameworks and decision criteria • Partner with regional leads on utility and grid strategy for commercial project implementation, infrastructure readiness reviews, long-range site planning, cross-functional technical alignment and feedback loops • Partner with the Energy Strategy team by identifying utility-interface constraints, defining engineering requirements, validating study assumptions and recommending practical mitigations • Reduce technical, interconnection, delivery and operational risk through standards and early engagement • Establish scalable technical frameworks, reference architectures and decision criteria for Product Engineering • Improve cross-functional alignment across Product Strategy, Product Engineering, Development, Energy, Construction, Operations and regional delivery teams • Influence future platform strategy through technically grounded recommendations • Advance utility readiness, improve reliability, reduce interconnection risk and inform long-term energy infrastructure strategy • Develop utility engagement frameworks and best practices across multiple regions and utility providers • Provide technical input on utility tariffs, rate structures, regulatory considerations and power procurement strategies • Support utility capacity assessments, infrastructure readiness reviews and long-range site planning • Lead evaluation of transmission and distribution infrastructure requirements for large-scale data center developments • Define grid interconnection strategies and create technical standards and risk assessment frameworks • Advise project teams on utility service configurations, reliability considerations and capacity expansion planning • Establish product-level standards for utility substations and grid-connected power systems • Guide reference designs for medium-voltage and high-voltage utility interfaces • Evaluate emerging technologies and infrastructure approaches that improve scalability, resilience and delivery certainty • Provide expertise on power quality, harmonics, voltage regulation, reactive power management and system stability • Collaborate with electrical engineering teams on performance requirements and mitigation strategies • Support resolution of complex utility and grid integration challenges during design, delivery and operations • Define grid-connected Energy Hub architectures supporting future energy strategies • Assess integration opportunities involving utility-scale generation, storage and grid services • Support roadmap initiatives that enhance flexibility, capacity availability and system reliability • Handle additional duties as assigned by management

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or a related technical discipline • 10+ years of experience in utility systems, transmission and distribution infrastructure, grid interconnection or power system engineering • Deep knowledge of utility operations, grid planning and substation design • Experience working directly with utilities, ISOs, RTOs, regulatory organizations or large-load interconnection processes • Strong understanding of power quality, electrical reliability, grid stability and large-scale power delivery requirements and transient modeling • Clear executive-level communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into practical business decisions • Travel required is expected to be up to 15% but may increase over time as the business evolves • Professional Engineer (PE) license preferred • Experience supporting hyperscale data centers, industrial power systems or large energy infrastructure programs preferred • Familiarity with regional utility regulatory environments and energy market structures preferred • Experience operating across multiple geographic regions and utility jurisdictions preferred • Demonstrated ability to establish standards, reference architecture and technical governance frameworks preferred • Ability to occasionally stand, walk, sit, use hands, reach, climb stairs, balance, stoop or kneel, talk and hear • Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus eligibility • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) coverage • Short-term disability coverage • Long-term disability coverage • Paid time off • Employee assistance program • 401(k) program with company match • Voluntary benefits • Health and welfare benefits • Retirement benefits • Paid leave benefits • Recognition programs • Training and development opportunities • Up to 15% travel (job-related travel provision)