Director, Solution Architect QuantumLeap

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The Solution Architect Director provides strategic and technical leadership for end‑to‑end system architecture supporting QuantumLeap initiatives across software, intelligence, controls, and digital platforms. This role ensures scalable, secure, reliable, and compliant architectures while partnering across engineering, product, cybersecurity, and compliance teams to enable long‑term platform success.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design and definition of enterprise‑level system architectures supporting Quantum Leap, including reference system designs, specifications, and technical standards.

• Drive architecture strategy for Quantum Leap software, intelligence, controls, digital platforms, and data center infrastructure management.

• Translate solution and product strategies into scalable, secure, and interoperable technical architectures.

• Define end‑to‑end system structures, including product selection, data flows, integration schemas, and communication protocols.

• Enable tight integration between infrastructure management systems and Quantum Leap intelligence, controls, and predictive service capabilities.

• Review architectural designs, validate system performance, and resolve complex system, integration, and architectural issues.

• Ensure system architectures deliver scalability, reliability, availability, and interoperability across all components.

• Select and govern technologies and platforms based on project requirements, industry standards, and long‑term architecture strategy.

• Ensure systems comply with applicable vertical industry standards (e.g., ASHRAE) and safety regulations.

• Develop and maintain architecture documentation and diagrams to support audits, certifications, and compliance activities.

• Design systems with robust cybersecurity protections to defend against industrial and enterprise threats.

• Architect high‑availability solutions incorporating redundancy, failover, and disaster recovery strategies.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree

• 10+ years of experience in systems engineering, architecture, or digital systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree

• Data center industry experience

• Proven experience defining and governing large-scale, complex system architectures.

• Strong understanding of system integration, data architectures, communication protocols, and distributed systems.

• Experience working within regulated or standards-driven industries.

• Demonstrated expertise in cybersecurity principles, high-availability systems, and disaster recovery design.

• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-relevant insights for executive audiences.

Pay Range

The annual salary for this position is between $174,500.00 - $348,500.00 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range include, but are not limited to, skills, education, experience, and other unique qualifications of the successful candidate.

Other Compensation

This position is entitled to both short and long-term incentives, subject to plan requirements.

Benefits

Employees are eligible for benefits, including:

• Health Care Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision; Wellness incentives

• Retirement Benefits

• Time off and Leave: Paid vacation days, up to 15 days; paid sick days, up to 5 days; paid personal leave, up to 5 days; paid holidays, up to 13 days; birth and adoption leave; parental leave; family and medical leave; bereavement leave; jury duty leave; military leave; purchased vacation

• Disability: Short-term and long-term disability

• Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment

• Tax-Advantaged Accounts: Health Savings Account; Health Care Spending Account; Dependent Care Spending Account

• Tuition Assistance

To learn more about our benefits offering, please click here Work with us | Carrier Corporate. The specific benefits available to any employee may vary depending on state and local laws and eligibility factors, such as date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Carrier EEO Statement and Accommodations Process

Carrier is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status or any other applicable state or federal protected class. Carrier provides affirmative action in employment for qualified individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with section 503 of Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act.

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Application Deadline

Applications will be accepted for at least 3  days from Job Posting Date: 27 March 2026

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