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Vice President Data Center Principal Architect

Dublin

Ireland

Location

Job Type

Hybrid

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ABOUT THE ROLE

The primary function of this role is to guide the product management cycle and influence the market in the critical power space in datacenters.


Principal areas of responsibility cover:

  • Research trends in the IT and Datacenter industries that could have an impact over the way electrical energy and heat are managed in datacenters, and over the way datacenters are built and managed over their lifecycle

  • Research new technologies available with Eaton ERLs, universities and other technology companies of all sizes

  • Work with BUs and KAMs to formulate possible future scenarios for various types of datacenters, and how Eaton can differentiate by designing the architecture offering the best value proposition to all stages of the datacenter design, build, operate and maintain players. Work with ERLs and BUs to make that architecture a reality

  • Interact frequently with important industry players to perform VoC, receive feedback on our offerings and influence their engineering choices.

Research the IT and datacenter industries and new technologies

  • Participate in major IT and datacenter technical conferences (trade of academic), talk to our customers’ business people and engineers, follow tech podcasts etc., to learn which topics are central and which are emerging

  • Regularly interact with partners (upstream, downstream, technology) to discuss industry trends and how they are thinking about them

  • Work with ERLs and university partners to understand what technologies are emerging, and establish research priorities

  • Represent Eaton in universities with major clusters of labs working on computer science and datacenters

Formulate possible future scenarios for various types of datacenters

  • Work with segment leaders to segment the datacenter industry by archetype

  • Formulate requirements and scenarios for each datacenter archetype that will serve as reference point for VoC, influence and research / NPD

  • Work with GPLs and Engineering leaders to create roadmaps aligned with scenarios

  • Actively contribute to the Eaton planning cycle, including Strat Plan, GPL waterline or direct involvement in important NPDs

Interact frequently with customers and partners

  • Conduct VoC to deepen our understanding of customers' constraints and requirements and influence their design

  • Work with partners on common designs to solve those constraints and satisfy the requirements

  • Engage with customers outside of bidding periods to discuss options and drive preferences for Eaton

  • Contribute directly to specific bids for the largest or most innovative customers

Regularly represent Eaton's view on datacenters in media and conferences

  • Represent the technical and economic vision of Eaton for the datacenters in public settings and with the press

  • Promote the point of view of Eaton with regulators and lawmakers as needed

Qualifications:

  • Master degree/diploma in Engineering, preferably Electrical Engineering

  • 15 years of experience as a leading engineer, experience in the datacenter industry

  • Deep knowledge of all the critical power chain systems. Working knowledge of construction methods and thermal management

  • Strong proven experience in the datacenter and IT industries

  • Experience in datacenter design and construction required

  • Strong proven experience in successful interactions with customers and influencers

  • High ability and experience in speaking publicly

  • Knowledge in product lines of Eaton Electrical segments and market would be a plus

  • Good knowledge and experience with typical go-to-market / datacenter ecosystem

  • Fluent English

  • Capacity to convince stakeholders externally and internally of need for change and lead the way forward

  • Capacity to obtain VoC from customers and partners, even when it contradicts our positions

  • Ease to work with various cultures and different types of customers

  • Ability to network at C level with our large channel partners and customers

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