Senior Solutions & Systems Architect

**Senior Solutions & Systems Architect** Plano, TX | **About the Role** We are seeking a senior technical leader to design Behind-the-Meter energy storage and Energy-as-a-Service solutions for Telecom, TowerCo, and Commercial & Industrial customers. The company integrates third-party batteries and inverters through its own EMS, SCADA, and optimization platform. The role spans product, systems engineering, sales engineering, delivery, and customer success. It suits someone who thrives in a startup and can move from whiteboard design to field troubleshooting. **Key Responsibilities** * **Customer solution architecture:** Design backup power and storage systems for telecom carriers, tower companies, data centers, critical infrastructure, and C&I sites. This covers sizing, technology selection, controls, communications, and utility interconnection. * **OEM integration:** Own integration of battery OEMs (CATL, Hithium, EVE, BYD, Fluence, LG) and PCS/inverter platforms (Sol-Ark, SMA, Sungrow, Delta, Kehua, TMEIC). Define communication mappings, data models, and controls sequences to make integrations repeatable. * **EMS and controls:** Be the system-level expert on peak shaving, demand charge reduction, generator optimization, demand response, solar-plus-storage, and revenue stacking, and turn market needs into product features. * **Startup leadership:** Join customer presentations, help close deals, support investor and partner discussions, build documentation and playbooks, and mentor future engineers. **Qualifications** * Bachelor's in Electrical, Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related field * 7+ years in battery storage, DER controls, microgrids, telecom power, SCADA, industrial automation, or distributed/utility-scale energy * Multi-vendor integration experience and a strong grasp of communications and control systems * Customer-facing technical experience * Willingness to travel to customer sites and commissioning events **Preferred** * Telecom backup power or TowerCo experience, hybrid generator-storage systems * EMS development, revenue stacking, fleet management platforms * Utility interconnection, solar-plus-storage, FAT/SAT * Startup experience * **Protocols:** Modbus TCP/RTU, CANBus, MQTT, DNP3, SNMP, BACnet, REST APIs * **Compliance:** UL 9540/9540A, UL 1741 SB, IEEE 1547, NFPA 855, NEC 706 **Success Milestones** * **6 months:** Technical lead on key opportunities, certify one new battery and one new PCS platform, and improve commissioning procedures * **12 months:** Repeatable OEM integration framework, 25%+ shorter field integration timelines, and trusted advisor status with strategic customers * **24 months:** Shape the next-generation EMS, set architecture standards, grow the solutions engineering team, and influence product roadmap