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