Data Center Solutions Engineer - Grey Space

Primary Function Description

Customer Solutions & Concept Design

• Engage in future data center development, design and architecture to include coordination with R&D teams both internally and customer facing.
• Engage with customers on early-stage data center opportunities, including projects without established standards or reference architectures.
• Develop conceptual and system level solutions covering grey space environments.
• Translate customer operational, resiliency, sustainability, and scalability goals into robust electrical architectures.
• Support technical discussions during pre-sales, design development, and early project phases.

System Architecture & Engineering Expertise

• Define advanced data center electrical architectures, including utility interconnection, MV/LV distribution, UPS topologies, energy storage, and IT power delivery.
• Ensure alignment between white space power requirements and upstream grey space infrastructure.
• Perform detailed technical analyses to evaluate system performance, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability.
• Provide technical recommendations to optimize footprint, power coordination, and system integration.

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Eaton Centers of Excellence (COEs), Global Product Lines (GPLs), and Business Units (BUs) to align customer solutions with Eaton?s technology roadmap.
• Collaborate with Design & Bid, engineering, operations, and sales teams to ensure solutions are technically sound and commercially viable.
• Facilitate technical workshops with customers, consultants, and internal stakeholders to co create solutions.

Standards, Compliance & Innovation

• Ensure solutions comply with applicable IEC, EU requirements, and local building codes by working with authorities having jurisdiction.
• Contribute to the development of Eaton?s global reference architectures, design frameworks, and best practices for next generation data centers.
• Stay current with industry trends, emerging technologies, and evolving data center standards to drive continuous innovation.

Project & Lifecycle Support

• Provide technical support during project execution, including site reviews, engineering evaluations, and electrical audits as required.
• Support early Eaton system approvals by vendors (AVL) for programmatic or large-scale deployments.
• Assist field engineers during commissioning and startup activities when needed.

Position Criteria

• Strong understanding of power system architectures, redundancy concepts, and integration between electrical and mechanical systems.
• Experience with UPS systems, MV/LV distribution, energy storage, and critical power infrastructure.
• Ability to lead technical discussions and conceptual design workshops with customers.
• Familiarity with BIM, digital engineering workflows, and modern data center design tools is an advantage.
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and communication skills.
• Customer focused mindset with the ability to act as a trusted technical advisor.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor?s degree in engineering from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 3 years of work experience with data center electrical systems, covering grey space environments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in English; additional languages (e.g., Arabic) are a plus.

Eaton Leadership Model Competencies

• Thinking and Acting Strategically
• Gets Results
• Enabling a Digital Mindset

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