About this role
Job title: Datacenter Industry Consultant
About the Role The Datacenter Industry Consultant is a senior, market-facing role responsible for accelerating Rockwell Automation's growth and relevance in the global data center market. You will bring deep domain expertise across power, thermal, and related automation systems in data centers, focusing on design influence and specification capture to help customers speed to market and megawatt objectives.
What You'll Do
- Be a trusted advisor to hyperscalers and large colo operators on power, thermal, and automation strategy.
- Engage directly with owners, OEMs, consultants, EPCs, and contractors early in the design lifecycle.
- Be the consultative lead and domain expert during customer interactions, workshops, and strategic discussions.
- Establish immediate credibility with customers, industry stakeholders and internal teams.
- Share insights across the organization to strengthen alignment and value delivery.
- Contribute to strategic planning with Industry leads and affinity teams.
- Support regional initiatives aligned with consultant's capacity and expertise.
- Provide system-level guidance across core data center infrastructure: Power Systems (emergency power-up sequences, backup generation, UPS, switchgear); Medium- and low-voltage distribution and grid interconnection; EPMS requirements, architectures, and integration strategies.
- Thermal & Mechanical Infrastructure: CUP design, operation, automation; chilled water systems, cooling towers, CRAH/CRAC, and liquid cooling; control strategies for uptime, redundancy, and energy efficiency.
- Automation & Control Systems: BAS/BMS architectures and deployment models; SCADA and telemetry systems for power and mechanical infrastructure; convergence of process, building, and electrical automation.
- Digital & Monitoring Platforms: working knowledge of DCIM systems and their role in operations; data integration across EPMS, BMS, SCADA, and IT layers; enablement of analytics, predictive maintenance, and digital twins.
- Commercial Impact & Execution: support large strategic pursuits; influence AVL positioning and standardization with hyperscalers and colo providers; enable regional sales and account teams with clear value propositions and architectures; provide structured feedback into product strategy and solution gaps.
- Internal Enablement & Alignment: be the voice of the data center industry inside Rockwell Automation; contribute to playbooks, training, and global best-practice sharing; support global programs such as Data Center Affinity programs.