Senior Data Centre Solutions Architect - Bid & Presales

CDC Data Centres; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CDC Academy

CDC Day

Parental Leave

Volunteer Leave

Employee Assistance Program

CDC Social Events

Job summary

CDC Data Centres is seeking a Senior Technical Bid Engineer to provide thought leadership across electrical, mechanical, civil and controls in customer engineering solutions. You will work with internal teams to respond to customer requests and bid scenarios, and support hyperscale pre-sales with technically robust, commercially viable proposals.

You'll collaborate with sales and engineering delivery teams to tailor designs, drive workshops, capture feedback and manage risk.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical solutions experience from within data centre engineering or critical infrastructure environments (electrical, mechanical, civil, or controls).
• Experience in optimising and evaluating solutions engineering designs for both time and cost efficiency.
• Exposure to designing and implementing customer deployment solutions.
• Strong understanding of Data Centre Engineering principles and industry standard design architectures.
• Demonstrated experience in pre-sales or post-sales engineering teams - customer-facing engagements, proposals, technical solution development.

Responsibilities

• Lead thought leadership, planning, management and technical design development across electrical, mechanical, civil and controls for customer solutions.
• Collaborate with internal teams to respond to customer requests and bid scenarios.
• Support hyperscale pre-sales opportunities with technically robust and commercially viable proposals.
• Provide guidance to stakeholders and cross-functional teams throughout the sales lifecycle; run workshops and solution reviews.
• Prepare data centre engineering briefing information to align CDC Data Centres with customers.
• Collaborate with Engineering Delivery Design to tailor designs to client needs.
• Gather customer feedback and escalate risks as required across parities.
• Develop relationships with the Sales team to identify, coordinate and win business; assist with collateral.
• Attend meetings and committees to ensure stakeholder engagement and communication.

Skills

Technical solutions experience

Data centre engineering

Critical infrastructure

Electrical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Controls engineering

Pre-sales experience

Stakeholder engagement

Job description

CDC Data Centres is seeking a Senior Technical Bid Engineer to provide thought leadership across electrical, mechanical, civil and controls in customer engineering solutions. You will work with internal teams to respond to customer requests and bid scenarios, and support hyperscale pre-sales with technically robust, commercially viable proposals.

You'll collaborate with sales and engineering delivery teams to tailor designs, drive workshops, capture feedback and manage risk.