{"id":4138901,"url":"https://alion.io/job/honeywell-director-solutions-architecture-application-engineering-data-centers","title":"Director, Solutions Architecture & Application Engineering – Data Centers","company":{"id":15856,"name":"Honeywell","domain":"honeywell.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/honeywell-com","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":78,"open_postings":135,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.889,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":27,"computed_at":"2026-11-11T05:49:22Z"}},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Atlanta, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":15,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Digital Twin","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-12T02:19:47Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-12","last_verified_at":"2026-11-12T04:41:21Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"About Honeywell Technologies\nHoneywell Technologies is a global automation company serving the building, industrial and process sectors with products, software, services and solutions. Learn more: https://www.honeywell.com/us/en\nThe Director, Solutions Architecture & Application Engineering - Data Centers leads Honeywell Technologies’ global Solutions Architecture and Application Engineering capability for the data center market.\nThe role leads the development of integrated architectures and engineered solutions across the Honeywell Technologies data center portfolio, spanning power and energy management, electrical infrastructure, onsite generation and microgrids, cooling and thermal management, automation and controls, software, fire and life safety, physical security, asset performance, OT cybersecurity and lifecycle operations.\nThe Director translates hyperscale, colocation, enterprise and AI data center requirements into scalable reference architectures and application-engineered solutions. The role establishes technical standards and governance, develops reusable global reference designs, and leads technical engagement with strategic customers, EPCs, consulting engineers, technology partners and Honeywell engineering and commercial teams.\n Solutions Architecture & Application Engineering\nLead integrated solution architecture. Translate customer requirements, Basis of Design documents and infrastructure requirements into scalable Honeywell Technologies data center architectures.\n\nLead application engineering. Establish common methods for application design, system selection, controls architecture, integration architecture, sequences of operation, technical compliance, validation and solution optimization.\n\nArchitect across the data center. Develop solutions spanning utility and grid interfaces, onsite generation, electrical distribution, microgrids, Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), EPMS/PMS, energy and demand management, BMS/DDC, cooling and environmental controls, fire and life safety, physical security, operational software, asset performance and OT cybersecurity.\n\nDrive multidisciplinary integration. Ensure power, thermal, controls, safety, security, software and OT capabilities operate as a coherent architecture rather than independent systems.\n\nLead technical assurance. Establish design reviews covering performance, reliability, resilience, scalability, interoperability, cybersecurity, maintainability, standards compliance and deployment readiness.\n\nAdvance next-generation architectures. Develop engineering approaches for AI and high-density computing, liquid cooling, campus-scale power requirements, grid constraints, onsite generation, distributed energy and resilient operations.\n\nCustomers & Partnerships\nLead strategic customer engagement. Serve as a senior technical interface with hyperscale, colocation and other strategic data center customers through architecture workshops, design reviews and technical roadmap discussions.\n\nPartner with global EPCs and engineering firms. Establish repeatable global reference architectures, application designs and engineering standards incorporating Honeywell Technologies capabilities.\n\nEngage the technology ecosystem. Work with consulting engineers, OEMs, electrical and cooling infrastructure providers, technology partners and systems integrators to define interfaces and integrated architectures.\n\nLead complex technical decisions. Resolve cross-domain architecture issues and ensure technical risks, assumptions, dependencies and interfaces are identified and addressed early in the design cycle.\n\nConnect global and regional requirements. Develop globally repeatable architectures that can be adapted for applicable codes, standards, certifications and customer requirements.\n\nGlobal Reference Architecture & NVIDIA DSX\nEstablish global reference architectures. Define repeatable Honeywell Technologies architectures, Basis of Design templates, master specifications, application guides, compliance matrices, interface requirements and engineering standards.\n\nShape the NVIDIA DSX vision. Partner with the Data Center Compliance Director to establish the technical vision, architecture principles and engineering approach for Honeywell Technologies’ participation in the NVIDIA DSX platform ecosystem.\n\nDevelop global EPC reference designs. Collaborate with leading EPC and engineering firms to create scalable design patterns incorporating Honeywell Technologies capabilities across power, energy, cooling, controls, safety, security and operations.\n\nConnect compute and facility infrastructure. Translate evolving AI compute density, power and thermal requirements into facility architectures addressing energy availability, electrical distribution, cooling, controls, monitoring and resilient operations.\n\nAdvance digital engineering. Establish approaches using simulation, digital models, technical validation and operational data to improve architecture quality and deployment readiness.\n\nDrive architecture reuse. Develop validated architecture modules and design patterns that can be replicated across customers and regions while accommodating project-specific requirements.\n\nTechnical & Organizational Leadership\nBuild and lead the organization. Develop a high-performing global team of Solutions Architects, Application Engineers and senior technical specialists.\n\nDevelop technical talent. Establish competency models, career paths, mentoring, technical training and succession plans.\n\nEstablish technical governance. Define architecture principles, engineering quality standards, design-review processes, technical decision rights and escalation mechanisms.\n\nSet technical priorities. Align Solutions Architecture and Application Engineering resources to strategic customers, programs and business priorities.\n\nServe as a senior technical authority. Remain personally engaged in strategic architectures, customer engagements and complex technical decisions.\n\nCreate a culture of technical excellence. Promote systems thinking, engineering rigor, customer focus, reuse, speed and accountability.\n\nPortfolio & Business Enablement\nLead across the integrated Honeywell Technologies portfolio. Establish architectures spanning power infrastructure and energy orchestration, building and environmental systems, fire and life safety, physical security, infrastructure management, operational intelligence and OT cybersecurity.\n\nTranslate customer needs into technology requirements. Establish a structured Voice of Customer process covering architecture gaps, interoperability, standards, certifications and emerging application requirements.\n\nInfluence technology roadmaps. Partner with engineering and product management teams to address capability, certification and integration gaps that limit customer adoption.\n\nEnable specification and design-in. Support customers, EPCs and consulting engineers in incorporating Honeywell Technologies architectures into customer standards, Basis of Design documents, specifications and reference designs.\n\nBuild reusable engineering assets. Establish master specifications, application design guides, technical playbooks, integration patterns and lessons-learned libraries.\n\nMeasure architecture impact. Track reference-design adoption, specifications influenced, architecture reuse, technical prequalifications, design retention, engineering quality and closure of strategic technical gaps.\n\nHoneywell Technologies Data Center Architecture\nProvide technical leadership across the unified Honeywell Technologies data center portfolio:\n\nPower Infrastructure & Energy Orchestration: utility and onsite generation interfaces, electrical distribution and power management, gas metering and conditioning, microgrid controls, BESS integration, EPMS/PMS and energy and demand management.\n\nCooling, Thermal & Environmental Systems: BMS/DDC, environmental sensing, HVAC and cooling controls, water-system integration and high-density thermal-management applications.\n\nBuilding & Facilities Integration: supervisory controls and multivendor integration across power, cooling, environmental, fire, security and analytics systems.\n\nFire & Life Safety: early-warning smoke detection, fire detection and notification, lithium-ion battery monitoring, and fixed gas and flame detection.\n\nPhysical Security: access control, intrusion detection, video surveillance, visitor management and secure zoning.\n\nInfrastructure Management & Operations: site- and portfolio-level operational visibility, automation and controls, operational intelligence and asset-performance management.\n\nOT Cybersecurity: asset visibility, vulnerability management, threat detection and cyber-risk insight across connected facility, power, safety and control networks.\n\n Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.\n\n15+ years of experience in solutions architecture, application engineering, consulting/design engineering, systems engineering or mission-critical infrastructure.\n\n5+ years leading senior technical teams, engineering functions or major multidisciplinary technical initiatives.\n\nSignificant experience supporting data centers, mission-critical facilities or other highly available, complex infrastructure.\n\nDemonstrated experience developing integrated architectures across multiple infrastructure disciplines.\n\nExperience developing or governing reference architectures, engineering standards, application designs and technical design reviews.\n\nExperience engaging strategic customer engineering organizations, EPCs, consulting engineers and technology partners.\n\nProven ability to lead complex technical decisions involving multiple organizations and engineering disciplines.\n\nStrong understanding of engineering design, systems integration, validation, technical risk, interoperability and lifecycle requirements.\n\nExcellent executive communication, technical presentation and customer-facing leadership skills.\n\nDemonstrated ability to lead global cross-functional teams and align senior stakeholders without direct authority.\n\nAbility to travel globally as required.\n\nWe Value\nLeadership experience in a dedicated data center, mission-critical infrastructure or technology organization.\n\nDeep experience with hyperscale, colocation, AI-factory or high-density data center infrastructure.\n\nExperience across multiple layers of the data center infrastructure stack rather than a single product or technology discipline.\n\nExperience developing global reference designs with major EPC, consulting or engineering firms.\n\nKnowledge of integrated power systems, onsite generation, microgrids, BESS, electrical infrastructure and energy management.\n\nKnowledge of BMS/DDC, high-density cooling, liquid-cooling interfaces and environmental controls.\n\nExperience with integrated fire and life safety, physical security, infrastructure-management software, analytics and OT cybersecurity.\n\nExperience integrating IT and OT infrastructure in mission-critical environments.\n\nExperience with simulation, digital twins, BIM and model-based engineering.\n\nKnowledge of applicable global data center, electrical, mechanical, automation, cybersecurity and safety standards.\n\nExperience developing reusable engineering methodologies and scaling architectures across customers and geographies.\n\nTrack record of recruiting, developing and retaining high-performing technical talent.\n\nGlobal, multi-region experience.\n\nMaster’s degree in engineering, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration or a related field.\n\nProfessional Engineer (PE) registration or relevant professional or industry certification.\n\nLeadership Characteristics\nTechnical leadership: Establishes architectural direction and operates effectively from executive discussions through detailed engineering reviews.\n\nSystems thinking: Connects power, thermal, controls, software, safety, security and operations into integrated 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