System Architect
Schneider Electric North America
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Job summary
Schneider Electric is seeking a System Architect for its ANSI Microgrid Center of Expertise in the USA. The role focuses on pre-sales support, system design, standardization, and enablement across countries with approx. 10% travel.
Partial remote work is allowed, reporting to the Director of the Microgrid Center of Expertise in Andover, MA. The successful candidate will have 5+ years in power systems or related fields, a degree in Electrical Engineering/CS, and strong skills in modeling,
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree required in electrical engineering, computer science or computer engineering.
- 5+ years in related power systems or energy storage domains.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Excellent presentation and reporting capabilities.
- Experience building or supporting monitoring and control architectures.
- Experience in automation and algorithms design (understanding required).
- Familiarity with Modbus, DNP3, REST API, MQTT.
- Familiarity with system engineering and modeling.
Responsibilities
- Support country Sales and tendering teams to design Microgrid solutions by bridging R&D knowledge, market understanding and application expertise.
- Identify and specify custom customer development needs with tendering manager.
- Validate customer project designs using Loops platforms; run demos and testing to de-risk projects.
- Participate in internal/external standardization activities in own field.
- Contribute to Microgrid System FMEA analysis.
- Gather partner/engineering feedback on efficiency and non-functional requirements.
- Assist in customer project issue analysis (bugs).
- Propose R&D offers and process improvements.
- Help accelerate partner ecosystem by supporting design activities and creating training materials.
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Job description
The Microgrid business is central to Schneider Electric’s New Energy Landscape Strategy and is a key pillar of our Sustainability, Digitization, and Electrification agenda. It continues to gain momentum and growth across key geographies, helping customers revolutionize and reshape the distributed energy landscape along their electrification and sustainability journeys.
The Microgrid teams provide state-of-the-art Energy Management and Power Management software, helping our customers to make the most of their Distributed Energy Resources.
The system architecture and technical enablement team, or center of expertise, is supporting this scale-up in building a coherent system design that enables cost-efficient and seamless execution of projects, whether Engineered or Configured to order.
System architects are responsible for the split of solutions and system features into product functions while considering the different project phases, operating and failure modes, always with simplicity, efficiency and design robustness in mind.
To support ANSI market, the System Architecture team is looking for its ANSI System Architect, focused on ANSI market specificities, from its Ecosystem to standards.
What will this architect do:
- Support country Sales and tendering teams to design Microgrid solutions by helping bridging R&D knowledge, market understanding and application expertise to build customer projects designs
- Support the Center of Expertise tendering manager to identify and specify custom customer projects development needs
- Participate in design and leverage available Software in the Loop and Hardware in the Loop platforms to validate customer project design philosophies, run demos, or run advanced specific testing for projects de-risking
- Participate in internal and external standardization activities depending on own field of expertise (it can be power systems, aggregator market, control philosophies…)
- Participate in Microgrid System FMEA analysis
- Gather Partners and engineering teams feedback around engineering efficiency, performances and non-functional requirements like configuration or serviceability
- On case-by-case basis, participate in customer project issues analysis (bugs)
- Be a force of proposition for R&D offers and internal process improvements
- To help accelerate the transactional part of the business, supporting the partner Ecosystem is key, as such this architect will accompany selected partners through their design activities, driving the external growth of Microgrid design competencies
- Participate in trainings activities to further enable Microgrid deployment across countries - not limited to the USA, by for instance help create training materials by bringing specific expertise, or run some training sessions.
- You will report to the Director of the Microgrid Center of Expertise. This job allows for partial remote work, as such you will be required to report to Schneider Electric Andover (USA-MA) facility office at least 2 full days a week and you can foresee around 10% travel a year.
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science or computer engineering
- 5+ years of experience in a related field such as low voltage power systems, medium voltage power system, energy storage, generator control systems, utility distribution systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong presentation and reporting skills
- Experience building or supporting monitoring and control systems architectures
- Experience in automation and algorithms design – programming skills are not required but understanding is a must
- Familiarity with communication protocols and interfaces such Modbus, DNP3 or Rest API, MQTT
- Familiarity with system engineering and modeling
- High-visibility role shaping the architectural direction of complex, integrated systems
- Collaboration with enterprise-level architects on transformative innovation initiatives
- Opportunities to influence product roadmaps and adopt cutting-edge technologies
- A culture that values technical excellence, continuous learning, and professional growth
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For this U.S. based position, the expected pay range is USD 117,600 - USD 176,400 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short-term incentives. The compensation range for this full-time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
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The Microgrid business is central to Schneider Electric’s New Energy Landscape Strategy and is a key pillar of our Sustainability, Digitization, and Electrification agenda. It continues to gain momentum and growth across key geographies, helping customers revolutionize and reshape the distributed energy landscape along their electrification and sustainability journeys.
The Microgrid teams provide state-of-the‑art Energy Management and Power Management software, helping our customers to make the most of their Distributed Energy Resources.
The system architecture and technical enablement team, or center of expertise, is supporting this scale-up in building a coherent system design that enables cost‑efficient and seamless execution of projects, whether Engineered or Configured to order.
System architects are responsible for the split of solutions and system features into product functions while considering the different project phases, operating and failure modes, always with simplicity, efficiency and design robustness in mind.
To support ANSI market, the System Architecture team is looking for its ANSI System Architect, focused on ANSI market specificities, from its Ecosystem to standards.
What will this architect do:
- Support country Sales and tendering teams to design Microgrid solutions by helping bridging R&D knowledge, market understanding and application expertise to build customer projects designs
- Support the Center of Expertise tendering manager to identify and specify custom customer projects development needs
- Participate in design and leverage available Software in the Loop and Hardware in the Loop platforms to validate customer project design philosophies, run demos, or run advanced specific testing for projects de-risking
- Participate in internal and external standardization activities depending on own field of expertise (it can be power systems, aggregator market, control philosophies…)
- Participate in Microgrid System FMEA analysis
- Gather Partners and engineering teams feedback around engineering efficiency, performances and non-functional requirements like configuration or serviceability
- On case-by-case basis, participate in customer project issues analysis (bugs)
- Be a force of proposition for R&D offers and internal process improvements
- To help accelerate the transactional part of the business, supporting the partner Ecosystem is key, as such this architect will accompany selected partners through their design activities, driving the external growth of Microgrid design competencies
- Participate in trainings activities to further enable Microgrid deployment across countries - not limited to the USA, by for instance help create training materials by bringing specific expertise, or run some training sessions.
- You will report to the Director of the Microgrid Center of Expertise. This job allows for partial remote work, as such you will be required to report to Schneider Electric Andover (USA-MA) facility office at least 2 full days a week and you can foresee around 10% travel a year.
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering, computer science or computer engineering
- 5+ years of experience in a related field such as low voltage power systems, medium voltage power system, energy storage, generator control systems, utility distribution systems
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong presentation and reporting skills
- Experience building or supporting monitoring and control systems architectures
- Experience in automation and algorithms design – programming skills are not required but understanding is a must
- Familiarity with communication protocols and interfaces such Modbus, DNP3 or Rest API, MQTT
- Familiarity with system engineering and modeling
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