Principal Systems Lead - Data Center Infrastructure

Jabil; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 132,000 - 238,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

Parental leave

401(k) retirement plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Jabil seeks a System Lead / Product Architecture Owner to own architectural coherence across CDU, HVAC, chiller cooling, and power platforms. The role focuses on scalable, configurable product structures and architectural governance rather than people management.

You will set design standards, drive variant strategies, and guide cross-functional teams to translate architecture into release configurations and engineering deliverables, minimizing lifecycle churn.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Systems Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of experience designing and architecting complex electromechanical systems.
• Demonstrated experience owning system architecture within multi-variant product environments.
• Deep understanding of modular design, product platforms, configuration logic, and lifecycle scalability.
• Strong understanding of CAD architectures, configuration management, and PLM-driven product development.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional technical initiatives involving multiple engineering disciplines.
• Ability to operate independently as a senior technical authority across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall system architecture across cooling and power product platforms and ensure coherence between mechanical, electrical, controls, and configuration structures.
• Define and maintain modular design strategies enabling reuse, scalability, maintainability, and change isolation across product families.
• Architect system and model structures anticipating future growth, regional requirements, and evolving customer needs.
• Establish architectural frameworks to reduce lifecycle complexity and minimize design churn.
• Serve as the primary technical authority during system-level and cross-functional design reviews.
• Work with ME CAD, EE CAD, controls, manufacturing, quality, service, and PLM/configuration teams to ensure architectural intent is implemented.

Skills

System-level thinking

Cross-functional execution

Technical decision-making

Lifecycle engineering

Independent technical authority

Education

Bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Systems Engineering or equivalent

Tools

CAD architectures

PLM

Configuration management

Release processes

Job description

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

The System Lead / Product Architecture Owner is a senior individual contributor responsible for technical ownership and architectural coherence across CDU, HVAC, chiller cooling systems, power distribution equipment, and related product platforms.

This role provides hands‑on architectural leadership focused on creating scalable, maintainable, and configurable product structures that support long‑term product evolution. The System Lead establishes system architecture, design standards, modularization strategies, and variant logic while driving cross‑functional alignment and technical execution across engineering disciplines.

Rather than managing people, this role serves as the primary technical authority for system‑level decisions, architecture governance, design reviews, and execution of critical technical initiatives. The position ensures architectural intent is consistently translated into product designs, released configurations, and engineering deliverables while minimizing lifecycle complexity and design churn.

Key Responsibilities

System Architecture & Platform Strategy

• Own the overall system architecture across cooling and power product platforms, ensuring coherence between mechanical, electrical, controls, and configuration structures.
• Define and maintain modular design strategies that enable product reuse, scalability, maintainability, and isolation of change across product families.
• Architect system and model structures that anticipate future growth, option expansion, regional requirements, and evolving customer needs.
• Establish architectural frameworks that reduce lifecycle complexity and eliminate recurring design churn.
• Continuously evaluate platform health and identify opportunities to improve scalability, reuse, and engineering efficiency.

Product Variants & Lifecycle Scalability

• Define and govern product variant strategies supporting different capacities, ratings, redundancy schemes, and regional compliance requirements.
• Ensure variants are implemented through structured configuration logic rather than duplication, exceptions, or manual workarounds.
• Enable product family growth without destabilizing released designs or increasing operational complexity.
• Drive consistency between architectural intent, configuration structures, and released product definitions.

CAD Standards & Design Frameworks

• Establish and maintain CAD architecture standards, model structure requirements, interface rules, and engineering best practices.
• Define templates, skeletons, references, and reusable design frameworks that support long‑term maintainability and consistency.
• Ensure alignment between CAD architecture, PLM structures, configuration management processes, and release requirements.
• Continuously improve standards based on engineering feedback, recurring issues, and lifecycle lessons learned.

Technical Leadership & Design Authority

• Serve as the primary technical authority during system‑level and cross‑functional design reviews.
• Guide technically sound decisions balancing performance, complexity, scalability, manufacturability, serviceability, and lifecycle impact.
• Resolve conflicting requirements or ambiguous design directions by aligning decisions to architectural principles and long‑term product objectives.
• Act as the escalation point for complex integration challenges and cross‑domain technical issues.
• Drive technical decision‑making, issue resolution, and action‑item closure resulting from architecture reviews and critical engineering discussions.

Cross‑Functional Alignment & Execution

• Work closely with ME CAD, EE CAD, controls, manufacturing, quality, service, and PLM/configuration teams to ensure architectural intent is properly implemented and maintained.
• Drive cross‑functional execution across engineering disciplines by establishing priorities, coordinating technical activities, and managing dependencies.
• Identify architectural risks, technical blockers, and organizational gaps that may impact product development, releases, or platform scalability.
• Facilitate resolution of technical issues and ensure timely closure of architecture‑related action items.
• Partner with stakeholders throughout the product lifecycle to ensure architecture supports design, procurement, manufacturing, testing, deployment, and service objectives.
• Influence execution through technical leadership, credibility, clear communication, and sound engineering judgment rather than formal managerial authority.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
• 10+ years of experience designing and architecting complex electromechanical systems.
• Demonstrated experience owning system architecture within multi‑variant product environments.
• Deep understanding of modular design, product platforms, configuration logic, and lifecycle scalability.
• Strong understanding of CAD architectures, configuration management, and PLM‑driven product development.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross‑functional technical initiatives involving multiple engineering disciplines.
• Proven ability to prioritize work, manage dependencies, drive execution, and achieve closure without direct supervisory authority.
• Ability to operate independently as a senior technical authority across organizational boundaries.

Strongly Preferred Experience

• Architecture ownership for CDUs, chillers, HVAC systems, liquid cooling infrastructure, or power distribution equipment.
• Experience supporting product families with multiple capacities, redundancy schemes, regional requirements, and customer‑specific variants.
• Deep familiarity with CAD, PLM, configuration management, and release processes.
• Experience driving technical execution within matrixed engineering organizations.
• Experience reducing organizational load and increasing engineering velocity through improved architecture and design practices.
• Experience supporting both NPI and sustaining engineering environments.

Core Competencies

• System-level architectural thinking
• Product platform strategy and modularization
• Cross‑functional execution leadership
• Prioritization and dependency management
• Technical decision‑making and risk management
• Action‑oriented problem solving and issue resolution
• Lifecycle engineering and configuration management
• Ability to prevent churn through foresight and structure
• Clear technical communication across disciplines
• Independent technical authority without people management responsibility

The pay range for this role is $132,400 - $238,400. Job-related, non-discriminatory factors used to determine the actual offered rate include qualifications and experience, geographic location, education, external market data, and consideration of internal equity. The anticipated close date of this job requisition is: .

As part of the total rewards package, this position is eligible for a short-term incentive based on performance. In addition, Jabil offers benefits to enhance your health, wealth, and resilient self.

• medical, dental, and vision insurance plans;
• paid time off accruing at a rate of 3.07 hours during your first year of employment;
• 4 weeks of paid parental leave;
• in 2027, 11 company‑paid holidays (9 fixed holidays and 2 optional floating holidays), subject to change yearly;
• 401(k) retirement plan;
• employee stock purchase plan.

Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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