Solutions Architect Sr.

Company: Panduit
Location: Tinley Park
Posted on: May 4, 2025

Job Description:

At Panduit, we don't just offer a job - we offer a career where your contributions directly impact our customers, the environment, and our company's success. You'll have the opportunity to grow, innovate, and be a part of an inclusive team that celebrates both individual and collective achievements. If you're ready to elevate your career and help us deliver exceptional experiences to our customers, apply today and make your mark with Panduit!
Join us at the forefront of innovation as a Senior Solutions Architect!
In this role, you'll provide technical leadership for our intelligent and physical infrastructure solutions, specializing in data center power (PDUs, UPS), connectivity, software, and emerging technologies. Collaborating cross-functionally with customers, partners, sales, engineering, product management, and R&D you'll create and influence complex architectures across pre-sales and early product development. You'll shape new solutions and strategic initiatives that fuel our growth in Datacenter, AI, sustainability, and high-performance computing markets.
What You Will Do

• Act as SME for reference architectures including logical/physical layers for data center, enterprise, and industrial networks, with a focus on PDU and UPS solutions.
  
• Present complex solutions to stakeholders.
  
• Lead communication forums for reference designs and deliver training to sales, business development, and partner teams.
  
• Shape design tools and software solutions to differentiate Panduit in the global market.
  
• Lead cross-functional development of technical marketing content.
  
• Stay connected with customers to identify market trends and translate needs into technical requirements.
  
• Collaborate across teams to improve products, define new offerings, and refine internal processes.
  
• Partner with sales and customers to assess technical needs and deliver tailored solutions.
  
• Architect scalable, high-performance power and network solutions for data centers, enterprise, and edge environments.
  
• Translate business needs into system and architecture designs.
  
• Partner with engineering to ensure alignment with design best practices.
  
• Respond to RFPs and assist in proposal creation.
  
• Maintain technical leadership in evolving technologies including Datacenter infrastructure, AI infrastructure, energy efficiency, and high-speed connectivity.
  
  What You Will Bring
  
  
• Education: Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, or technical field.
  
• Certifications: BICSI RCDD, CCNA, CCNP, MCSE, DCEP, CDCDP, CDCMP, DCDC, SQL/MySQL, SCADA, ISA-95, or MES preferred.
  
• Experience: 7-9 years in data center architecture, network systems, or infrastructure design.
  
• Subject Matter Expertise (in at least one domain):
  

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• Data Center Power Solutions (PDUs, UPS)
  
• Power Solutions Configuration Software
  
• Data Center Cooling and Environment Systems
  
• Data Center and Industrial Physical Infrastructure
  
• Cooling Systems and Network Architecture
  
  
  
• Knowledge: Expertise in data center infrastructure, power systems, and emerging trends.
  
• Systems: Proficiency in architecture and design tools, and Microsoft Office Suite.
  
• Communication Skills: Strong communicator with customer service and cross-functional leadership abilities.
  
• Analytical Skills: Ability to gather insights from technical and market data.
  
  What We Can Offer You
  
  
• Competitive Pay & Benefits: Enjoy a robust Total Rewards Program that includes health, financial benefits, and more.
  
• Work-Life Balance: Flexible work options to help you achieve the perfect work-life balance. This role will require you to be in the office 50% of the time (schedule based on manager's discretion).
  
• Generous Time Off: Take advantage of our generous vacation, sick days, holidays, plus a volunteer day to give back to the community.
  
• Retirement & Growth: 401(k) match, profit sharing, and abundant growth and development opportunities to help you advance your career.
  
• Parental Leave: Because we care about your family and your future.
  
  Compensation
  The expected annual base salary range for this role is $125,000-$155,000. This role qualifies for an incentive plan based on individual and company performance. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.
  Making the connections that matter.
  Join us and apply online to be part of the Panduit team. We're an Equal Opportunity Employer, dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace for all. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Panduit will not sponsor applicants for work visas now or in the future.
  Work Shift
  Day (United States of America)
  About Us
  Innovating beyond the ordinary is at the heart of Panduit, driving a passion to connect the world in new and better ways. That passion helps us deliver today's most powerful, scalable, and profitable physical infrastructure solutions. From increasing the safety and sustainability of our cities, making travel easier, putting new technology into people's hands more quickly, helping institutions protect and save lives, to enabling our increasingly networked world, Panduit is about building the best connections possible.
  As a world-class manufacturer of high-performance network and industrial electrical infrastructure, Panduit helps customers rethink what that infrastructure can do - turning connectivity into a competitive advantage. Headquartered in Tinley Park, IL., USA, our 5,000+ team members work across 112 global locations. Our proven reputation for quality and technology leadership, coupled with a robust partner ecosystem, help support, sustain, and empower business growth in a world becoming more and more connected each day.
  Panduit's Cultural Beliefs -Earn Trust, Be Focused, Own Results, Think Differently, Collaborate, and Simplify- define who we are: a high-performing, global team empowered to create experiences that enable our vision of fueling the best worldwide connections. We believe that when we act in ways that are consistent with these beliefs, we can innovate unrivaled infrastructure solutions for our valued customers and partners.
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