Solutions Architect

Job Overview

Convergint is looking for a full-time, enthusiastic, results-driven, and forward-thinking Solutions Architect to join our amazing culture. In this role, you will work with sales colleagues in solutioning, designing, and estimating large-scale, complex, and specialized facilities in verticals such as Utilities, Data Centers, Petro Chem or highly regulated environments. As an Electronic and Physical Security Solutions Architect, you will play a critical role in pursuing and creating accurate, high-value designs, scopes of work and proposals that meet the unique demands of enterprise-level and complex projects.

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You are a highly skilled and experienced electronic/physical security professional who is a problem-solver with an eye for detail and precision. You thrive in managing complex, large-scale opportunities and have the expertise to navigate specialized security requirements. You are collaborative, resourceful, and committed to delivering results on high-stakes projects.

With 20 years of proven growth and exceptional performance, our mission is to be our customer's best service provider. Our company is built upon a solid foundation of 10 Values and Beliefs that drive our unmatched culture, making us the #1 global, service-based systems integrator. We take pride in protecting the lives and assets of our customers and their communities with the solutions we provide.

• Own the Design as a Service (DaaS) intake, capture scope and DaaS request, align with requestor and customer expectations, outline assumptions, create DaaS RFI’s, outline define DaaS deliverables, schedule, and RACI.
• Drive the design lifecycle ie. SD, DD, CD, IFC, etc.; understand and run Bluebeam session reviews, log/resolve comments, and issue formal revisions/decisions from these coordinated reviews.
• Create/Understand/Document/Enforce templates, naming, versioning, and repository standards; maintain clean document control and audit trails.
• Provide designer-of-record clarity and change control; document assumptions, exclusions, risks, and impacts for projects that are being supported.
• Translate use cases and customer design needs/intents into design packages across Data Center security program platforms.
• Produce, coordinate, communicate preliminary and detailed design packages (plans, details/typical, device schedules, one-lines, Basis of Design (BOD)) aligned to client standards and best practices.
• Work with Partners to identify new and best technology to apply to solutions and designs.
• Identify project risks, special handling requirements, and potential solutions to address regulatory and customer expectations.
• Strong coordination within a design construction project – understand Security Design needs and coordinate/communicate with other stakeholders, e.g., Turnstiles, Fire Alarm integration, Power/Electrical Requirements, MDF/IDF/MMR layouts, device elevations and placements, headend requirements, rack elevations, power/PoE/VLAN basics, pathways, grounding/bonding basics, and ceiling/clearance constraints.
• Participate in site surveys to confirm conditions (cages/perimeter, hot/cold aisles, mounting heights, other consultant alignment).
• Align and coordinate with other consultants including but not limited to (Div
  8) (Div 26), Communications (Div 27), electrified hardware Specifications, structured cabling, networking/IT, facilities, and GC trades on interfaces and design responsibilities.
• Door Hardware reviews and coordination with GC and/or Door Hardware Consultants.
• Coordinate security system network backhaul paths, port counts, and network integration points with facility IT/network teams.
• Understand, develop, publish, and maintain BOD packages for data center customers (design philosophy, performance criteria, device selection and application, acceptance/commissioning criteria).
• Author, interpret, and update Division 28 specifications (Electronic Safety & Security); ensure alignment to drawings, schedules, and SOWs.
• Ensure Design Drawing sets match the…