Technical Senior Principal Engineer- UPS & Secure Power

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 UPS Expert acts as the design authority and customer technical referent for critical power and UPS architecture across MEA within the EU C&SP Solution Center.You own the Power Architecture Strategy for hyperscale, high‑density, and AI‑driven data centers operating in extreme grid and ambient conditions.This role ensures technical excellence, robustness, scalability, and standardization of Schneider Electric’s UPS and electrical backbone solutions from early customer prescription and tender phases through project execution, in strict alignment with technical governance, resilience targets, safety, and cybersecurity principles.For C&SP MEA One Solution, the UPS Expert will:Act as the primary technical authority for customers on UPS and critical power architecture.Translate customer uptime, resilience, and AI load growth strategies into optimized, compliant power topologies.Engage proactively with customer central teams before RFQs to influence architecture decisions.Contribute to tenders with validated single‑line diagrams, load assumptions, redundancy logic, and failure mode analysis.Lead standardization of reference UPS architectures across hyperscale and AI deployments.Ensure design repeatability, modularity, and future scalability are embedded from Day 1.Capture and institutionalize lessons learned to continuously harden design robustness.Guarantee alignment between tender commitments and executable electrical design.Hyperscale and AI power Architecture OwnershipDefine and validate UPS reference architectures for Hyperscale Campuses, AI/GPU Clusters.Select and justify 2N vs N+1 vs Distributed Redundant topologies, Lithium‑ion VRLA battery strategy.Ensure scalability, modularity, and future high‑density rack.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 latest technical evolutions of equipment/systems to leverage it to the benefit of customer future technical solutions.Tender 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 UPS designs in line with customer requirements and SE standards, ensuring coherence, robustness, and compliance of all design deliverables across projects and regions.Read and challenge electrical designs, layouts, detecting over‑engineering and under‑engineering instantly.Optimize PUE, WUE, support customer on sustainability commitments and align solutions with Schneider‑Electric decarbonization and EcoStruxure™ strategy.Stakeholder & Supplier CoordinationTrain presales, sales, project teams, contractors and EU teams and provide expertise on:AI‑driven load behavior.Middle East grid instability and voltage fluctuation patterns.Failure modes in high‑ambient environments.Battery degradation risks.Design Scope & Lifecycle CoverageAct as Schneider’s final electrical critical power voice in:Hyperscale technical workshops.Consultant design reviews.EPC value‑engineering sessions.Support mega RFPs and defend Schneider’s position in technical clarifications.Identify design risks early.Support FAT/SAT and commissioning for critical projects.Standards, Compliance & Risk ManagementEnsure designs comply with IEC/IEEE applicable standards, uptime Institute guidelines, local regulations and utilities constraints.Identify technical risks, design deviations, and change impacts versus contract or approved baseline; support PMs and execution TLs in technical assessments of changes and variations.Capture lessons learned and drive standardization and continuous improvement across accounts.About YouBachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.Fluent English.Technical experience in AI data center infrastructure.7 years in data center electrical or mission‑related infrastructure.T