Data center Solutions Architect

Job Description

Data Center Solutions Architect

Shipboard Infrastructure / Hybrid Pre-Sales

Position Overview

Our client, a respected IT Services leader that powers mission-critical systems for both commercial and federal clients is seeking an experienced Data Center Solutions Architect to support the discovery, assessment, and redesign of data center environments with a particular focus on shipboard infrastructure.

This is a hybrid technical and pre-sales role requiring someone who can work directly with customers and technical stakeholders to understand existing environments, gather requirements, identify challenges, and develop practical infrastructure designs that simplify ongoing maintenance and make future technology upgrades easier to execute.

This role will involve a combination of remote discovery, customer meetings, architecture and design work, and travel to customer locations as required.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery sessions with customer stakeholders to understand existing data center and shipboard infrastructure.
• Assess current-state environments, including hardware, infrastructure dependencies, physical constraints, and operational requirements.
• Gather and document technical requirements across multiple locations and environments.
• Develop current-state and future-state data center architecture and design recommendations.
• Design solutions focused on simplifying maintenance, improving supportability, and making future technology refreshes and upgrades easier to execute.
• Identify infrastructure limitations, technical risks, dependencies, and opportunities for modernization.
• Create technical design documentation and other customer-facing deliverables based on discovery findings.
• Participate in customer-facing technical and pre-sales conversations.
• Work with sales, engineering, and delivery teams to translate customer requirements into technically viable solutions.
• Present architectural recommendations and proposed designs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Conduct as much discovery and design activity remotely as practical while traveling to customer locations when hands-on assessment or onsite engagement is required.
• Support multiple locations and environments as the overall program progresses.

Required Skills

Required Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship required.
• Active Secret clearance required.
• Strong experience with data center architecture, infrastructure design, or data center modernization.
• Previous shipboard experience or knowledge of shipboard environments. Military experience is not required.
• Experience conducting infrastructure discovery and technical assessments.
• Ability to develop technical architecture and design deliverables based on discovery findings.
• Experience working directly with customers in a technical, consultative, solutions architecture, or pre-sales capacity.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure lifecycle planning, technology refresh, maintainability, and upgrade considerations.
• Ability to take a complex existing environment and develop a practical future-state architecture.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable presenting technical recommendations to customers and other stakeholders.
• Ability and willingness to travel as required.

Preferred Experience

• Experience designing infrastructure for distributed, constrained, remote, maritime, or mission-critical environments.
• Previous experience supporting shipboard data center or IT infrastructure.
• Experience with data center modernization or technology refresh initiatives.
• Background working across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and supporting data center infrastructure.
• Experience developing high-level and low-level design documentation.
• Experience bridging the gap between pre-sales architecture and delivery engineering.
• Experience working within government, defense, or other cleared environments.

Additional Comments

• 6+ months CTH
• Mostly Remote with travel (Must live EST/CST)
• Travel will be required based on project and discovery needs, potentially to DC, San Diego, Philadelphia, Rhode Island, Syracuse, and Charleston
• Goal would be to handle as much of the discovery and conversations remotely as possible
• Shipboard knowledge and experience (doesn't have to be military)
• Hybrid pre-sales role
• Requires Data Center Design/Architect background
• Will be focused on redesigning data center environments to reduce maintenance and make future upgrades easier
• Data gathering and design deliverables
• The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data center architecture and design, experience working in or around shipboard environments, and the ability to translate technical discovery into clear design recommendations and deliverables

Pay: $80.00 - $90.00 per hour

Benefits:

• Work from home

Security clearance:

• Top Secret (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote