Technical Senior Principal Engineer- Electrical

Who are we and what we stand for?Our purpose and mission are what guides us and represents our promise to all our stakeholders – customers, partners, employees, influencers, shareholders, and communities.Schneider’s purpose is to create Impact by empowering all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. At Schneider, we call this Life Is On.Our mission is to be the trusted partner in Sustainability and Efficiency.Our renewed purpose highlights our commitment to create lasting impact while maintaining our promise to make the most of our energy and resources bridging progress and sustainability for all.Our updated mission continues to reinforce our value of strong partnerships, where trust is needed above all.Your MissionThe RTL Electrical & Cooling Design acts as the design authority and customer technical referent for electrical and cooling solutions across selected strategic accounts of the EU C&SP Solution Center.The role ensures technical excellence, consistency, and standardization of Schneider Electric’s electrical and cooling design solutions from early customer prescription and tender phases through project execution, while complying with SE technical governance, quality, safety, and cybersecurity principles.For up to 3 of the targeted accounts, the RTL will:Act as the primary technical reference for customers on electrical and cooling design solutions.Understand customer technical drivers and translate them into optimized and compliant design architectures.Proactively engage in technical prescription activities with customer central teams ahead of RFQs.Contribute to tender preparation, providing validated technical concepts, design assumptions, and clarifications.Lead the design definition of customer-approved solutions, aiming at standardization and reuse across regions.Ensure solutions comply with SE technical governance (CPP, TDP, safety, quality and cybersecurity).Develop complete design packages to support consistent deployment and knowledge transfer.Capture and promote lessons learned and best practices to continuously improve design efficiency.Ensure standardized solutions are correctly applied in all tenders and projects, regardless of geography.Act as technical referent for Zone and Country Technical Leaders during tender and execution phases.Your Role – Magic happens when you bring great people together!Customer Interface & Technical PrescriptionLead technical exchanges, workshops, and clarifications with customers in a credible and trust‑building manner. Clearly explain complex technical concepts, design choices, and trade‑offs to customer stakeholders.Demonstrate strong customer‑facing, communication, and influencing skills to support technical credibility and customer confidence.Be connected with SE Line of Businesses and be up to date on the last technical evolutions of equipment/ systems to leverage it to the benefit of customer future technical solutionsTender Support & Upstream AlignmentLead technical validation of UPS architecture during pre-tender and tender phases.Define redundancy logic and uptime compliance matrices (Tier alignment).Validate battery autonomy assumptions and lifecycle impact.Ensure compliance between proposal commitments and executable detailed design.Defend Schneider’s architecture during technical clarifications and competitive negotiations.Technical Design AuthorityLead and approve basic and detailed electrical and cooling designs in line with customer requirements and SE standards.Ensure coherence, robustness, and compliance of all design deliverables across projects and regions.Stakeholder & Supplier CoordinationWork in close collaboration with PMs, GTLs, Execution TLs, engineers, factories, and suppliers.Lead and coordinate technical aspects of subcontracted scope in alignment with procurement.Act as the single technical interface for internal and external stakeholders on design topicsDesign Scope & Lifecycle CoveragePerform and review design and specification activities from pre‑design and tender through L5 commissioning, optimizing the use of Schneider Electric’s portfolio.Typical scope includes:MV / LV systems, transformers, UPS, buswaysE‑house integration and site installationCooling systems and controlsBMS and monitoring systemsSupport FAT, SAT, and prototype validations when required.Standards, Compliance & Risk ManagementIdentify technical risks, designs impacts versus contract or approved baseline.Support PMs and Execution TLs in technical assessments of changes and variation ordersEnsure compliance with SE processes (CPP, TDP), quality standards, and safety and cybersecurity requirements.Capture lessons learned and drive standardization and continuous improvement across accounts.About YouBachelor’s degree in electrical engineeringFluent EnglishTechnical experience in AI Data center infrastructure area plus7 Years in data center; Electrical or mission-related infrastructureTechnical experience in cri