Solution Architect - Data Center Cooling

About the role

JCI is looking for a Solution Architect who works closely with Global Strategic Account Managers (GSAMs) to align technical solutions with account strategy and accelerate deal conversion. The role acts as a global customer advocate and leads the architecture, positioning and technical execution of advanced thermal and cooling solutions for global data center customers, covering chiller, liquid cooling and central plant systems.

Key responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end thermal solutions (air-cooled, liquid cooling, hybrid systems) aligned with hyperscale and colocation requirements
• Translate customer technical requirements into optimized system designs, including capacity modeling and performance trade-offs
• Lead technical components of proposals, including system architecture, energy efficiency modeling and solution differentiation
• Partner with GSAMs on account priorities, customer engagement plans and pipeline development
• Represent customer requirements internally across engineering, product and operations
• Lead and support program management of complex, multi-region data center initiatives
• Support pricing and commercial strategy through technical value articulation (TCO, PUE, lifecycle cost)
• Act as technical interface between customer engineering teams and JCI product and engineering organizations
• Drive adoption of innovations such as high-density liquid cooling, advanced chillers and heat reuse

Required profile

• Experience in data center cooling systems and thermal system design
• Ability to lead technical proposals and program management across multi-region deployments
• Technical sales and solution positioning in partnership with GSAM organizations

Required skills

• Data center cooling systems (chillers, CDU, CRAH/CRAC, liquid cooling)
• Thermal system design and capacity planning
• Energy efficiency optimization (PUE, WUE, sustainability targets)
• Hyperscale and colocation design standards
• Program and project management