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The Sr. Principal Design Engineer - Systems Integration, Data Center & Infrastructure Systems will hold the title of Systems Integration Manager (SIM) even though this is not a managerial role.
The Systems Integration Manager (SIM) is the single threaded owner of engineering delivery and system integration for complex industrial and data center infrastructure systems, including chillers, CDUs, switchgear, PDCs, control panels, fluid networks, containment systems, modular data centers and factory enablement activities.
The SIM maintains a tight operational partnership with the Technical Program Manager (TPM) team managing a portfolio of projects, ensuring alignment between engineering execution, program priorities and cross project dependencies to drive disciplined, predictable delivery.
This role ensures thermal, electrical, fluid, and control systems are integrated into a fully functional, reliable system and that engineering teams execute with alignment, clarity and accountability.
Additionally, the SIM establishes visibility into scope maturity, engineering execution, and organizational risks, ensuring data driven decisions and predictable delivery.
What Success Looks Like
Fully integrated systems across disciplines.
Minimal commissioning issues.
Predictable, high-quality program execution.
Strong alignment and accountability across engineering teams.
Clear operating rhythm and visibility at the leadership level.
System performance meets real-world expectations.
What Makes This Role Different
This is NOT a Technical Program Manager (TPM) role.
The SIM owns systems performance and integration, drives engineering decisions across disciplines, ensures systems operate under real world conditions and enforces execution discipline and accountability across engineering teams.
What This Role Is Not
Not a TPM or tracking role.
Not limited to reporting or coordination.
Not removed from technical decision making.
Opportunity Intake & Validation
Own intake and prioritization of new initiatives, serving as the primary entry point for all incoming opportunities into the organization.
Assess and validate each opportunity for technical feasibility, scope clarity, resource requirements and alignment to organizational priorities before commitment.
Identify risks, dependencies, and gaps early, ensuring that incomplete or ambiguous work is resolved prior to formal program launch.
Partner closely with cross functional teams to shape programs before execution, refining scope, defining success criteria and establishing clear ownership and expectations.
Drive structured decision making for go / no go recommendations, providing clear, data driven insights and tradeoffs to leadership.
Ensure only well defined, executable work enters the engineering pipeline, improving predictability, reducing rework and protecting team capacity.
What will you do ?
Drive closure of critical actions, resolve ownership gaps, escalate risks appropriately, and enforce accountability across engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.
End to end engineering execution across thermal, electrical, fluid and control systems from design through deployment
Own system requirements, architecture decomposition, interface management, verification, validation, and requirements flow-down across all subsystems.
Ensure system performance, reliability, and integration readiness under real world operating conditions.
Drive cross-functional alignment across Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Thermal, Manufacturing, and Program teams.
Lead system level design reviews, including P&IDs, one-lines, controls architectures, and subsystem interfaces.
Define and drive integration, commissioning, FAT, SAT and deployment readiness strategies.
Ensure build readiness for skids, modular data centers (MDCs), and field installations.
Lead system-level failure analysis, corrective actions, engineering change management, and risk mitigation activities.
Establish visibility into scope maturity, engineering performance, execution risks, and critical dependencies.
Drive program execution cadence, including planning and design reviews.
Standardize execution frameworks, operating rhythms and lessons learned processes to improve organizational scalability and predictability.
How will you get here?
Strong systems engineering capability, including requirements management, interface control, verification, validation, and systems integration.
Ability to operate at both system-level engineering depth and organizational execution leadership.
Working knowledge of thermal systems, electrical distribution, controls, and fluid system integration.
Experience leading full lifecycle delivery from architecture and design through commissioning and field deployment.
Ability to influence and drive accountability across technical and cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Strong judgment in prioritization, risk management, escalation, and decision-making under ambiguity.
Ability to translate complex technical and business tradeoffs into clear executive-level communication.
Proven ability to establish scalable execution frameworks, operating rhythms, and organizational discipline.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
Experience:
8 –15+ years delivering complex engineered systems.
Experience in thermal, electrical, fluid, or controls systems integration.
Strong system level engineering capability.
Proven cross functional leadership.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering organizations or systems engineering teams.
Experience with data center or critical infrastructure systems.
NPI or program recovery experience.
Experience with modular systems (MDCs, skids).
Commissioning and field deployment experience.
What Can Jabil Offer You?
Along with growth, stability, and the opportunity to be challenged, Jabil offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
Medical, Dental, Prescription Drug, and Vision Insurance with HRA and HSA options
401K Match
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Paid Time Off
Tuition Reimbursement
Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance
Commuter Benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Pet Insurance
Adoption Assistance
Annual Merit Increases
Community Volunteer Opportunities
BE AWARE OF FRAUD: When applying for a job at Jabil you will be contacted via correspondence through our official job portal with a jabil.com e-mail address; direct phone call from a member of the Jabil team; or direct e-mail with a jabil.com e-mail address. Jabil does not request payments for interviews or at any other point during the hiring process. Jabil will not ask for your personal identifying information such as a social security number, birth certificate, financial institution, driver’s license number or passport information over the phone or via e-mail. If you believe you are a victim of identity theft, contact the Federal Bureau of Investigations internet crime hotline (www.ic3.gov), the Federal Trade Commission identity theft hotline (www.identitytheft.gov) and/or your local police department. Any scam job listings should be reported to whatever website it was posted in.
Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Accessibility Accommodation
If you are a qualified individual with a disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access Jabil.com/Careers site as a result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an e-mail to Always_Accessible@Jabil.com or calling 727-803-7988 with the nature of your request and contact information. Please do not direct any other general employment related questions to this e-mail or phone number. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to.#whereyoubelong
#AWorldofPossibilities
How will you make an impact?
The Sr. Principal Design Engineer - Systems Integration, Data Center & Infrastructure Systems will hold the title of Systems Integration Manager (SIM) even though this is not a managerial role.
The Systems Integration Manager (SIM) is the single threaded owner of engineering delivery and system integration for complex industrial and data center infrastructure systems, including chillers, CDUs, switchgear, PDCs, control panels, fluid networks, containment systems, modular data centers and factory enablement activities.
The SIM maintains a tight operational partnership with the Technical Program Manager (TPM) team managing a portfolio of projects, ensuring alignment between engineering execution, program priorities and cross project dependencies to drive disciplined, predictable delivery.
This role ensures thermal, electrical, fluid, and control systems are integrated into a fully functional, reliable system and that engineering teams execute with alignment, clarity and accountability.
Additionally, the SIM establishes visibility into scope maturity, engineering execution, and organizational risks, ensuring data driven decisions and predictable delivery.
What Success Looks Like
Fully integrated systems across disciplines.
Minimal commissioning issues.
Predictable, high-quality program execution.
Strong alignment and accountability across engineering teams.
Clear operating rhythm and visibility at the leadership level.
System performance meets real-world expectations.
What Makes This Role Different
This is NOT a Technical Program Manager (TPM) role.
The SIM owns systems performance and integration, drives engineering decisions across disciplines, ensures systems operate under real world conditions and enforces execution discipline and accountability across engineering teams.
What This Role Is Not
Not a TPM or tracking role.
Not limited to reporting or coordination.
Not removed from technical decision making.
Opportunity Intake & Validation
Own intake and prioritization of new initiatives, serving as the primary entry point for all incoming opportunities into the organization.
Assess and validate each opportunity for technical feasibility, scope clarity, resource requirements and alignment to organizational priorities before commitment.
Identify risks, dependencies, and gaps early, ensuring that incomplete or ambiguous work is resolved prior to formal program launch.
Partner closely with cross functional teams to shape programs before execution, refining scope, defining success criteria and establishing clear ownership and expectations.
Drive structured decision making for go / no go recommendations, providing clear, data driven insights and tradeoffs to leadership.
Ensure only well defined, executable work enters the engineering pipeline, improving predictability, reducing rework and protecting team capacity.
What will you do ?
Drive closure of critical actions, resolve ownership gaps, escalate risks appropriately, and enforce accountability across engineering and cross-functional stakeholders.
End to end engineering execution across thermal, electrical, fluid and control systems from design through deployment
Own system requirements, architecture decomposition, interface management, verification, validation, and requirements flow-down across all subsystems.
Ensure system performance, reliability, and integration readiness under real world operating conditions.
Drive cross-functional alignment across Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, Thermal, Manufacturing, and Program teams.
Lead system level design reviews, including P&IDs, one-lines, controls architectures, and subsystem interfaces.
Define and drive integration, commissioning, FAT, SAT and deployment readiness strategies.
Ensure build readiness for skids, modular data centers (MDCs), and field installations.
Lead system-level failure analysis, corrective actions, engineering change management, and risk mitigation activities.
Establish visibility into scope maturity, engineering performance, execution risks, and critical dependencies.
Drive program execution cadence, including planning and design reviews.
Standardize execution frameworks, operating rhythms and lessons learned processes to improve organizational scalability and predictability.
How will you get here?
Strong systems engineering capability, including requirements management, interface control, verification, validation, and systems integration.
Ability to operate at both system-level engineering depth and organizational execution leadership.
Working knowledge of thermal systems, electrical distribution, controls, and fluid system integration.
Experience leading full lifecycle delivery from architecture and design through commissioning and field deployment.
Ability to influence and drive accountability across technical and cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Strong judgment in prioritization, risk management, escalation, and decision-making under ambiguity.
Ability to translate complex technical and business tradeoffs into clear executive-level communication.
Proven ability to establish scalable execution frameworks, operating rhythms, and organizational discipline.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in engineering.
Experience:
8 –15+ years delivering complex engineered systems.
Experience in thermal, electrical, fluid, or controls systems integration.
Strong system level engineering capability.
Proven cross functional leadership.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering organizations or systems engineering teams.
Experience with data center or critical infrastructure systems.
NPI or program recovery experience.
Experience with modular systems (MDCs, skids).
Commissioning and field deployment experience.
What Can Jabil Offer You?
Along with growth, stability, and the opportunity to be challenged, Jabil offers a competitive benefits package that includes:
Medical, Dental, Prescription Drug, and Vision Insurance with HRA and HSA options
401K Match
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Paid Time Off
Tuition Reimbursement
Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance
Commuter Benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Pet Insurance
Adoption Assistance
Annual Merit Increases
Community Volunteer Opportunities
BE AWARE OF FRAUD: When applying for a job at Jabil you will be contacted via correspondence through our official job portal with a jabil.com e-mail address; direct phone call from a member of the Jabil team; or direct e-mail with a jabil.com e-mail address. Jabil does not request payments for interviews or at any other point during the hiring process. Jabil will not ask for your personal identifying information such as a social security number, birth certificate, financial institution, driver’s license number or passport information over the phone or via e-mail. If you believe you are a victim of identity theft, contact the Federal Bureau of Investigations internet crime hotline (www.ic3.gov), the Federal Trade Commission identity theft hotline (www.identitytheft.gov) and/or your local police department. Any scam job listings should be reported to whatever website it was posted in.
Jabil, including its subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Accessibility Accommodation
If you are a qualified individual with a disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access Jabil.com/Careers site as a result of your disability. You can request a reasonable accommodation by sending an e-mail to Always_Accessible@Jabil.com or calling 727-803-7988 with the nature of your request and contact information. Please do not direct any other general employment related questions to this e-mail or phone number. Please note that only those inquiries concerning a request for reasonable accommodation will be responded to.#whereyoubelong
#AWorldofPossibilities
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Who's Hiring
- Northrop Grumman10
- Jabil3
- AIG2
- Oracle2
- Roblox2
Top Industries Hiring
- Technology & Software
- Insurance
- Electronics & Hardware
- Medical Devices
- Media & Entertainment
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in senior principal data engineer jobs.
- 8 or more years of experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms
- Expert-level proficiency in distributed processing frameworks such as Spark or Flink
- Deep experience with cloud data platforms including AWS, GCP, or Azure data services
- Demonstrated ability to define data architecture standards across multiple engineering teams
- Strong command of data modeling, warehousing concepts, and lakehouse patterns
- Experience mentoring senior engineers and influencing technical roadmaps at the organizational level
Tips for Your Senior Principal Data Engineer Job Search
Quantify pipeline scale on your resume
Senior principal roles attract scrutiny on scope, so replace vague language with concrete scale. Cite data volumes processed, latency targets hit, and the number of downstream teams your platform served. Reviewers at this level compare systems impact, not job duties.
Highlight cross-functional technical leadership
At the senior principal level, hiring managers want architects who align engineering, product, and analytics roadmaps. Your resume should show specific decisions you made that shaped org-wide data strategy, not just projects you delivered as an individual contributor.
Filter openings by architecture ownership signals
Job postings that mention 'define data platform strategy' or 'set engineering standards' are principal-track roles. Postings that say 'implement' or 'maintain' often get relabeled at lower levels. Read the responsibilities section carefully before investing time in an application.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists senior principal data engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a system design narrative for interviews
Senior principal interviews almost always include an open-ended system design round where you defend architectural tradeoffs. Prepare a walkthrough of one real platform you designed from scratch, covering why you chose your storage layer, processing model, and observability approach.
Negotiate scope before you negotiate compensation
At this seniority, reporting structure and technical scope erode faster than base pay. Ask explicitly what the role owns versus advises, whether the principal track has a defined promotion criteria, and how many engineers will be direct or indirect stakeholders of your decisions.
Senior Principal Data Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most senior principal data engineers?
The companies hiring the most senior principal data engineers right now include Northrop Grumman, Jabil, and AIG, with the largest share of openings in California, Florida, and Texas, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of September 2026. Demand is strongest at companies running large internal data platforms that serve multiple product lines.
How many senior principal data engineer jobs are remote?
About 50% of senior principal data engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of September 2026, reflecting the hands-off-keyboard nature of architecture and strategy work at this level. Roles focused on platform governance, data mesh design, and cross-team technical standards tend to be the most remote-friendly, while roles with heavy hands-on infrastructure ownership often require on-site presence.
How do you become a senior principal data engineer?
You typically reach the senior principal level by first mastering end-to-end data platform ownership as a staff or principal engineer, then demonstrating that your architectural decisions influenced outcomes beyond your immediate team. Building a portfolio of platform designs you can defend technically, developing a reputation for cross-functional alignment, and publishing or presenting on data engineering problems accelerates recognition at this level.
Can you get hired as a senior principal data engineer with limited experience?
Direct hiring into a senior principal role with limited experience is uncommon because most job descriptions require a verified history of platform-scale ownership. The realistic path is to target principal or staff engineer roles first, take on architecture initiatives that give you cross-team scope, and build a paper trail of design decisions. Internal promotions from staff to senior principal are far more common than external hires at this level.
What does the senior principal data engineer interview process look like?
The process typically begins with a recruiter screen focused on scope and level, followed by a technical phone interview covering distributed systems and data modeling depth. Onsite or virtual rounds usually include a system design session where you architect a platform end to end, a behavioral round probing technical leadership and stakeholder influence, and a hiring manager conversation about roadmap priorities and org fit.
Where can I find and apply to senior principal data engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to senior principal data engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find the roles that fit your experience and target industries, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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