Systems Architect - Global Data Center Segment - IT Module

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Eaton's Global Data Center Segment is one of the company's most dynamic and rapidly evolving businesses, playing a critical role in powering the digital world.
With the rise of cloud computing and AI loads and the geometric growth in their scale, data centers are under pressure to be more high-performing, sustainable and cost-effective than ever, without compromising resilience or security. At the same time, new opportunities and revenue streams require faster speed-to-market. With our broad offerings of hardware, software and services spanning power, cooling and structural domains and deep engineering expertise supporting customer solutions integration, we help data centers realize real business benefits today while optimizing their operations for the future

Within this segment, Eaton has an opening for a Systems Architect - IT Module.

This role will drive the architecture of the data center's IT module (white space) - encompassing high-density IT power and cooling integration and modular deployment strategies - to enable faster, safer, and scalable rollout of compute capacity.
This resides within the Data Center Architecture Team.

The Data Center Architect Team drives end-to-end system reference designs and co-design with customers across a five-block architecture model, ensuring modular, scalable, and integrated solutions across Eaton's data center portfolio. This position is a senior technical leader within Eaton's Data Center Segment, responsible for developing the structural and systems definition of the IT module including layout, modularization, integration strategy, and scalability. It will help define how white space systems (racks, cooling interfaces, power distribution, containment, cable routing, and controls) come together at the pod level into a repeatable, optimized design. It will serve as the system integrator across all white space components.

This role is available in both the UK and Ireland.

What you'll do:

Be knowledgeable of current trends and innovate the market.
Identify and build positive relationships with all account decision-makers and influencers who impact current or future business with Eaton.
Gain an in-depth understanding of the client development and buying process and be able to articulate it effectively.
Perform VoC by understanding and capturing clients' challenges and requirements and resolve them by co-designing to help evolving Eaton's portfolio.
Ensure an effective handover to Global Product Lines and Business Units so that they develop the right portfolio to respond to large customers' requirements. Support the application engineers in charge of key accounts in implementing your designs for specific customers.
Maintain oversight of all advanced engineering-related engagements to ensure customer success and satisfaction, as well as Eaton's performance as a vendor.
Be highly knowledgeable about the client's business, commercial condition, structure, strategy, operations, and challenges. Articulate this knowledge in terms of opportunity, growth, and risk with respect to Eaton's business.
Be highly knowledgeable about Eaton's products, services, general business, structure, strategy, and operations. Articulate this knowledge in terms of value to the client's business.
Act as an effective advocate and communicator of the benefits of supporting your proposed architecture within the Eaton organization.
Act as an effective advocate and communicator of the benefits of supporting Eaton within the client engineering organization.
Collaborate effectively with other sales and stakeholders at the function, country, region, and global levels. Provide and gain support so others can meet their responsibilities to the account.
Provide all internal stakeholders and functional departments with the account-specific guidance and insights required to execute their roles and add value to the client.
Build a multi-lane bridge between Eaton and the client organization. This may include GPL leaders, Engineering leaders, Product line managers, BU Engineers, BDM, Marketing, PMO, Services, Sales Operations & Order Management, Supply Chain, Leadership & Executive Management.
Work with the Segment Marketing team to create white papers and other technical material to promote our designs and value proposition.

Qualifications:

Leadership & experience: 15+ years in critical power system design and electrical distribution engineering (advanced degree strongly preferred).

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent recognized qualification
Minimum of 10 years of related experience in the data center business across core domains of whitespace, cooling, power, fiber, controls, and rack systems

Preferred Qualifications:

Masters degree in engineering or technical discipline

Skills:

Has led multiple complex programs delivering medium- and low-voltage power architectures for large data centers or similar mission-critical facilities, spanning from medium-voltage (e.g. 15-35 kV) substation design to high-current low-voltage and ~1500 V direct-current systems. Experience includes end-to-end oversight from conceptual architecture through deployment, with a record of on-time, reliable power system commissioning at multi-megawatt scale.
Technical expertise: Expert in power conversion architectures for data centers, including MV AC distribution, LV AC, and high-voltage DC networks. Mastery of protective coordination, converter and switchgear integration, busway and panelboard systems, large-scale UPS and energy storage, and DC power protection schemes. Keeps abreast of emerging 380 → 800 V DC standards and cutting-edge power electronics (e.g. new 800 VDC components) and is a recognized innovator (patents or contributions to industry standards such as OCP open DC architectures or IEC committees on data center power).
Systems & architecture skills: Thinks at system level beyond the white space - ensures the IT Module design aligns with upstream power (Block 2) and facility cooling systems (Block 4) for a cohesive data center architecture. Provides direction across multiple product and engineering teams (racks, busbars, cooling, monitoring, etc.) to develop standardized, integrated solutions. Mentors multi-disciplinary engineers and champions a shift from traditional, labor-intensive buildouts to automated, modular deployment approaches that improve speed-to-market and reliability.
Leadership & communication: Excellent executive communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Proactive leadership and initiative, with experience guiding cross-functional teams or projects. Demonstrated mentoring ability and influence in a matrixed organization, helping train and direct other engineers.
Customer focus: Strong customer engagement skills - experience interacting with enterprise or hyperscale data center customers to understand requirements and deliver solutions that address their challenges. Ability to incorporate Voice of Customer feedback into technical designs and roadmaps.

Technical knowledge in data centers design and construction, specifically POD-level architecture and modular design, high-density compute environments (AI/ML workloads) and/or liquid cooling architectures
Project Management Experience: Experience with Product Design or Product Management with a working knowledge of Agile/Scrum and Waterfall. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite is required
Specialized Industry Knowledge: Ability to create customized data center physical layer solutions tailored to various data center subsegments, including (but not limited to) Hyperscale, liquid cooling, and the modular edge
DMAIC experience for process improvement and drive for excellence
Experience delivering POD-level architecture and modular design
High-density compute environments (AI/ML workloads) and cross-domain system integration (cooling, power, structural)
Proven ability to author whitepapers and thought leadership and lead system-level design trade-off discussions
To perform effectively, the individual shall maintain sufficient market and competitor intelligence, understand client and market primary trends and requirements and how competition addresses them and how Eaton uniquely and preferentially meets them
Highly proficient at consultative selling and at communicating Eaton's differentiated value at company, product, and service levels. Additionally, function in a research and development function
Strong customer-facing technical engagement experience

What we offer:

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team
• Flexible working solutions (remote, flexible working hours, compressed week, part time etc.)
• We make your aspirations matter - Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible
• We make your growth matter - We invest in our employees for the long term - not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University
• We make your contributions matter - reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people's lives and the environment through power management technologies
• We make your wellbeing matter - We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it's about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen

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