Technical Senior Principal Engineer- UPS & Secure Power

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Your Mission

The 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.

Your Role - Magic happens when you bring great people together!

Hyperscale and AI power Architecture Ownership

• Define 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 last technical evolutions of equipment/ systems to leverage it to the benefit of customer future technical solutions

Tender Support & Upstream Alignment

• Lead 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 Authority

• Lead and approve basic and detailed UPS designs in line with customer requirements and SE standards. Ensure coherence, robustness, and compliance of all design deliverables across projects and regions.
• Ability to Read and challenge Electrical designs, layouts, Detect 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 Coordination

• Train presales, sales, project teams, contractor and EU 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 Coverage

• Act 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 Management

• Ensure designs comply with IEC / IEEE applicable standards, uptime Institute Guideline, Local regulation 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 variation
• Capture lessons learned and drive standardization and continuous improvement across accounts

About You

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering
• Fluent English
• Technical experience in AI Data center infrastructure area plus
• 7 Years in data center; Electrical or mission-related infrastructure
• Technical experience in critical power UPS (MV , LV, Busway are a plus)
• Technical experience in the Hyperscale and large collocation Data Center
• 7 years in data center Electrical or mission-critical infrastructure

Ability

• Ability to lead with agility in a complex & matrix environment.
• Ability to communicate (written, verbal) clearly in a concise and synthetic manner on complex technical strategy.
• Ability to convince stakeholders on the proper project technical strategy

Let us learn about you! Apply today.

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Client-provided location(s): Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Job ID: Schneider_Electric-https://careers.se.com/jobs/111875?lang=en-us

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-03-18T19:05:22