Strategic Customer Product Architect

Position Title:Strategic Customer Product ArchitectLocation:Ashburn, VA | Dallas, TX | Chicago, IL | Santa Clara, CA | Austin, TX Your RoleThe Strategic Customer Product Architect works closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Product Management, Design Engineering, and Design, Engineering & Construction teams, as well as key customers, to develop scalable, customer-aligned infrastructure solutions for data center environments. This role translates customer technical and design requirements into actionable design direction through the development of building schematics, Basis of Design (BoD) documentation, technical narratives, and pre-planned infrastructure solutions. By creating standardized customer-specific design packages, this position accelerates future leasing, design, and construction activities while supporting strategic customer growth initiatives.What You'll DoLead technical discovery sessions with customers to understand infrastructure requirements, performance objectives, and design constraints.Translate customer requirements into scalable, efficient, and standardized MEP infrastructure solutions for data center environments.Develop and review conceptual layouts, Basis of Design (BoD) documents, technical narratives, and customer solution packages.Serve as a trusted technical advisor during customer engagements, solution development activities, and design alignment discussions.Support complex customer deployments, including hyperscale, high-density, and build-to-suit infrastructure solutions.Create, maintain, and enhance a library of pre-planned customer-specific design packages for single-site and multi-campus deployments.Partner with Sales and Solutions Engineering teams to support strategic pursuits, customer proposals, and solution development initiatives.Contribute to RFP/RFQ responses, technical proposals, infrastructure narratives, and conceptual planning efforts.Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on evolving customer requirements, infrastructure trends, and technical standards.Identify opportunities to improve scalability, constructability, operational efficiency, deployment speed, and design standardization.What You'll NeedBachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education and experience.3–5 years of experience in mission-critical infrastructure, MEP engineering, data center design, or related environments.Strong knowledge of data center cooling systems, power distribution, redundancy strategies, and scalable infrastructure architectures.Familiarity with industry standards and guidelines, including Uptime Institute Tier Standards, ASHRAE, and TIA-942.Understanding of building design considerations such as structural loading, wall and door layouts, floor elevations, plumbing interfaces, security requirements, bracing, and access/egress pathways.Experience supporting customer-facing technical engagements and collaborating with cross-functional teams.Experience managing external engineering consultants, vendors, or technical service partners.Proficiency with AutoCAD and related design tools for creating and modifying facility and infrastructure designs.Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into practical solutions.Ability to balance customer requirements, technical feasibility, operational considerations, and commercial objectives.A Bit About UsDigital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.A Bit About Our TeamTechnology & InnovationOur Technology & Innovation team strives to innovate alongside our customers and empower their businesses to thrive. We work closely with our customers to develop insights-based, data-driven technical solutions and differentiated value propositions on PlatformDIGITAL across the world. Operating in almost 50 cities globally means we understand how rapidly the world is evolving, so we've built a best-in-class development model to qualify, package, and enable cloud-to-core-to-edge hybrid IT solutions. Our deep technical heritage, combined with our global footprint, means the Technology & Innovation team can create and deploy services and solutions that are at the heart of the digital economy.What We Can Offer YouOur rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.Join us and you'll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you'll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things, and put your ideas into action. We'll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.Apply today, take charge of your career, and grow your talents with us.Training and DevelopmentJoin our Data Center Operations team and gain the support to succeed from day one. Our onboarding program prepares you to contribute meaningfully right away, with clear career pathways and continuous training to fuel your long-term growth. From onboarding to specialized development, we equip you with the skills and opportunities to make a lasting impact in operations.Health and SafetySafety isn't just a priority here at Digital Realty; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals—they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners, and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.Our Compensation PhilosophyDigital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.Our published pay ranges reflect the minimum and maximum target for new hire pay for the full-time position determined by role, level, and geographical location. Individual pay is based on additional factors including but not limited to job-related skills, experience, and relevant education and/or training. Moreover, an employee's total compensation package varies by role and may include salary, cash bonus or commissions, and equity awards not quantified below.Compensation Range: $160,000 - $180,000 annually. This compensation range represents the Company's good faith belief as to what it will pay as a base salary for this position at the time of this posting.Benefits: For this role, benefits include medical, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) match, disability benefits, wellness and education benefits, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off, holidays, and more.Full timePosting Date: 2026-07-13