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Title: Senior Electrical Engineer - Americas Location: Americas - region-based, with travel to assigned campuses, vendor facilities, and onsite generation project locations Reports To: VP / Director, Engineering Programs - Americas Organization: Global Design & Engineering (GD&E) - Technical Programs & Construction Oversight Type: Full-time About the Role EdgeConneX is seeking a technically deep, delivery-oriented electrical engineer to serve as Senior Electrical Engineer for the Americas within the Global Design & Engineering (GD&E) organization. This role is the senior regional electrical authority - accountable for the integrity of electrical design, equipment validation, and energization outcomes across a portfolio of assigned campuses - and carries a distinct additional mandate: serving as GD&E's designated engineering interface to the EdgeConneX behind-the-meter power and onsite generation organization (the "BTM team"). GD&E delivers safe, reliable, and cost-effective data center infrastructure by setting world-class design standards, driving disciplined program execution, and partnering seamlessly with internal teams and an external execution partner. Within GD&E, the Senior Electrical Engineer sits inside the Americas regional pillar, supported by the Principal Electrical Engineer in Technical Strategy & Architecture, who owns the global electrical architecture and standards. The Senior Electrical Engineer is how that architecture becomes validated, energized, performing infrastructure in the field - and how it stays coherent as onsite generation reshapes where the meter sits. The role is positioned above the regional Electrical SME baseline and below the Principal Electrical Engineer. Like the regional SME, this engineer engages at the milestones where deep electrical expertise decides outcomes - design reviews, factory acceptance tests, protection studies, energization. Unlike the baseline SME role, the Senior Electrical Engineer additionally owns the technical coordination between data center electrical infrastructure and behind-the-meter generation schemes: ensuring that onsite generation topologies, interconnection points, protection philosophies, and energization sequences are properly reflected in - and compatible with - the campus electrical design. This role operates inside a one-team site model. At each campus, the Technical Program Manager (TPM) owns the technical deliverables and the Delivery Manager (DM) is accountable for project execution, cost, and schedule from construction start. The Senior Electrical Engineer is the discipline specialist who supports that site team - and, where a campus includes an onsite generation component, the engineer who ensures the two programs converge on one buildable, protectable, energizable electrical system. The ideal candidate is first and foremost a data center / critical infrastructure electrical engineer, with genuine working experience in power generation - prime or standby generation plants, generator paralleling and controls, grid and behind-the-meter interconnection. The generation background exists to make coordination credible, not to make this a power plant design role. They are equally comfortable challenging a protection coordination study, witnessing a FAT, walking an interconnection single-line with the BTM team, and telling a site team that an energization plan is not ready - clearly, credibly, and with a path to resolution.
Key Responsibilities:
Regional Electrical Leadership & Technical Authority
- Serve as the senior electrical discipline authority across the portfolio of assigned campuses in the Americas, ensuring electrical designs, installations, and energization outcomes conform to the standards, guidelines, and templates set by Technical Strategy & Architecture.
- Engage at the milestones where deep electrical expertise matters most - design reviews, submittal and RFI resolution on critical electrical scope, factory acceptance tests (FAT), protection and coordination study reviews, commissioning readiness assessments, and energization.
- Hold the technical position on electrical readiness - validate that distribution systems, protection schemes, and energization plans are sound before each phase proceeds, supporting the TPM/DM site team rather than working in parallel to it.
- Identify where site-specific constraints or customer requirements demand a departure from the electrical standard, and route deviations through the established Technical Strategy & Architecture approval process.
- Provide informal technical leadership and mentoring to regional Electrical SMEs, raising the consistency and rigor of electrical reviews across the Americas portfolio.
BTM Team Interface - Behind-the-Meter Power & Onsite Generation
- Serve as GD&E's designated engineering interface to the BTM team, ensuring the two organizations operate from one shared technical picture at every campus where onsite generation is in scope.
- Coordinate the electrical integration of onsite generation into campus infrastructure - interconnection topology, point-of-coupling definition, protection philosophy and relay coordination across the meter boundary, grounding and fault current implications, paralleling and load transfer schemes, and islanding / grid-transition behavior.
- Represent data center design intent, redundancy requirements, and reliability standards in onsite generation discussions - ensuring generation schemes support, and never compromise, the facility's availability model and customer commitments.
- Ensure onsite generation milestones and dependencies (interconnection agreements, generation commissioning, utility transition sequences) are visible to the site TPM/DM team and reflected in campus energization planning.
- Translate between the two domains in both directions: bring generation constraints and timelines into GD&E design and delivery decisions early, and bring GD&E standards, deviation governance, and commissioning expectations into the BTM team's project development.
Design Review & Standards Compliance
- Review and challenge electrical engineering deliverables produced by the execution partner - single-lines, equipment specifications, protection studies, arc flash analyses, cable and raceway design, and grounding systems - for conformance with GD&E standards and sound engineering practice.
- Validate that customer-specific electrical requirements are correctly captured in design and reconciled with the EdgeConneX standard, escalating conflicts through the deviation process rather than resolving them informally.
- Feed field and interconnection lessons learned back to the Principal Electrical Engineer so the global electrical standard improves with every campus delivered - including the maturing standard position on behind-the-meter integration.
Vendor & Equipment Validation
- Lead electrical vendor and equipment validation for assigned campuses - witnessing Factory Acceptance Tests (FAT) for switchgear, UPS systems, generators, and other critical electrical equipment, and confirming that what was validated in the factory is what performs in the field.
- Support Legal & Procurement with technical input on electrical equipment specifications, vendor evaluations, and contract exhibits, including generation-related scope where the interface demands it.
Commissioning & Energization Support
- Support the Commissioning Lead (Cx SME) and site teams through electrical system startup, functional testing, Integrated Systems Testing (IST), and energization - with particular ownership of energization sequences that involve utility and behind-the-meter sources.
- Drive electrical technical issue resolution during commissioning to closure, engaging the Principal Electrical Engineer where deeper architectural judgment is required.
- Confirm electrical readiness criteria are met before a facility - or a generation-integrated electrical system - is declared Ready for Service (RFS).
Reporting & Cross-Functional Coordination
- Provide clear, timely reporting on electrical design, validation, and interconnection status and risks to site TPM/DM teams and regional leadership, aligned to GD&E's stage-gate governance and reporting cadence.
- Coordinate with Operations on electrical maintainability, operability, and the operational implications of onsite generation integration - these are design inputs, not afterthoughts.
- Work with the Budgets, Process & Document Management shared service to ensure electrical documentation and deviation records follow consistent GD&E standards across the portfolio.
- Support Site Development Engineers and regional leadership in utility and interconnection discussions where senior electrical expertise strengthens EdgeConneX's position.
Qualifications:
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering required; Master's degree preferred.
- PE license strongly preferred; certifications such as CDCP, ATD (Accredited Tier Designer), or NETA-affiliated credentials are valued.
Experience
- Minimum 10 years of progressive electrical engineering experience in data center or mission-critical infrastructure, spanning design, construction support, and commissioning - with a track record of owning electrical outcomes on delivered facilities.
- Demonstrated experience on hyperscale / Tier III+ data center projects, including hands-on involvement in design review, FAT, protection coordination, and energization.
- Meaningful experience in power generation - such as prime or standby generation plants, generator paralleling and controls, gas reciprocating or turbine generation, fuel systems, battery energy storage (BESS), or utility-scale interconnection - sufficient to coordinate credibly with generation engineers and developers. Deep generation design experience is valuable but not required; the center of gravity of this role remains data center infrastructure.
- Experience working with or alongside EPC / execution partner engineering teams, driving quality and standards adherence through influence within an integrated team.
Technical Depth
- Deep expertise in data center electrical systems: power distribution architectures (MV/LV), switchgear, UPS systems, generator configurations, redundancy strategies (N+1 through 2N+1), protection coordination, arc flash analysis, grounding, and energization strategy.
- Working knowledge of generation and interconnection engineering: point-of-coupling design, protection across the meter boundary, paralleling and synchronization, islanding and grid-transition schemes, and the interconnection agreement / utility coordination process.
- Solid understanding of commissioning methodology for electrical systems, from individual system testing through IST and energization, including readiness criteria and failure mode validation.
- Familiarity with relevant standards and frameworks, including IEEE (incl. interconnection standards such as IEEE 1547 where applicable), NFPA 70/70E, NETA, Uptime Institute Tier practices, TIA-942, and regional utility and regulatory requirements.
- Strong cross-functional coordination capability - able to align stakeholders across two internal organizations, an execution partner, vendors, and utilities who do not report to this role.
- Clear, concise communication, with the credibility to deliver a "not ready" call on an electrical system or energization plan and back it with data and a recovery path.
- Sound field judgment - knows when to resolve directly, when to engage the Principal Electrical Engineer, and when to escalate through the TPM/DM site team.
- Comfort operating across multiple concurrent campuses in a fast-paced, high-growth environment where the portfolio is expanding and processes are maturing.
Preferred Attributes
- Direct experience with behind-the-meter or bridging power solutions for data centers - onsite gas generation, BESS integration, microgrid controls, or utility transition programs.
- Experience delivering for hyperscale and neo-cloud customers, with an understanding of their electrical compliance and witnessing expectations.
- Familiarity with AI/ML workload infrastructure and the electrical demands of high-density, liquid-cooled deployments.
- A collaborative, ownership-driven mindset - one team with the execution partner, one organization with the global GD&E pillars.
Travel Significant travel required (40–60%) across assigned campuses in the Americas, vendor facilities for FAT, and onsite generation project locations - concentrated around design reviews, equipment validation, and energization windows, and occasionally at short notice. Why This Role Matters As onsite generation becomes part of how EdgeConneX brings capacity to market, the boundary between the data center and its power source is no longer just the utility meter - it is an engineering interface that must be designed, protected, commissioned, and owned. The Senior Electrical Engineer is the person GD&E trusts to hold that interface: deep enough in data center electrical systems to protect the availability model, fluent enough in generation to coordinate as a peer, and senior enough to keep two organizations converging on one system that energizes safely and runs reliably for decades.
