Director, Solutions Engineering

STACK INFRASTRUCTURE (STACK) provides digital infrastructure to scale the world's most innovative companies. We are an award-winning industry leader in building, owning, and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale, colocation, and cloud data centers. Each of our national facilities meets or exceeds the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity, and physical resilience. STACK offers the scale and geographic reach that rapidly growing hyperscale and enterprise companies need.

The world runs on data. Data runs on STACK.

STACK is seeking a Director, Solutions Engineering, to lead client technical engagements through lease execution. This role combines technical precision with strategic leadership to ensure all engagements result in exceptional design quality, project success, and client satisfaction. This role uniquely blends client-facing engagement with multidisciplinary technical facilitation. The Director of Solutions Engineering acts as a technical integrator and decision leader, ensuring that complex engineering provisions are aligned, documented, and actionable across teams and clients.

You will oversee engineering engagement, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and guide governance across the full project lifecycle—from initial concept through design and contracting. This position reports to the Vice President, Solutions Engineering.

• Lead Client-Facing Engineering Engagements and Presentations
  - Serve as the lead in client meetings, coordinating internal SMEs to communicate solutions effectively, deliver briefings and design reviews, and manage client relationships with clarity and confidence.
• Support All Facility Types
  - Oversee design and engineering efforts for greenfield builds, retrofits, and special projects, incorporating next-generation technologies such as liquid-cooled GPU environments and other high-density workload needs.
• Translate Complex Needs into Solutions
  - Partner with clients to understand, refine, and translate requirements into actionable designs and project plans.
• Develop and Negotiate Technical Lease Provisions and SLAs
  - Integrate lease and SLA discussions into client engagements to ensure clear, consistent, and precise technical terms through execution.
• Manage Cross-Functional Technical Teams
  - Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across mechanical, electrical, architectural, and controls engineering to deliver cohesive, high-quality, and efficient design solutions.
• Ensure Design and Contract Governance
  - Oversee the engineering and contracting lifecycle, maintaining alignment with STACK standards, technical accuracy, and client objectives.

• Lead and structure technical review meetings, framing objectives, decision criteria, and expected outcomes.
• Facilitate SME presentations, calling on technical leads to provide rationale for engineering provisions while maintaining meeting scope and time control.
• Translate technical language across disciplines and for non-technical stakeholders, ensuring full comprehension and traceability of decisions.
• Synthesize technical input into clear project recommendations, capturing what was decided, why, and what it impacts (cost, schedule, compliance, reliability).
• Identify cross-discipline integration risks early, particularly around power, cooling, and infrastructure interfaces.
• Maintain neutrality in technical discussions, guiding consensus and linking engineering outcomes to client priorities and contractual requirements.
• Document decisions and actions in real time; track follow-ups through the project delivery system.

• Engineering reviews consistently conclude with…