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Equinix

Global data center, colocation, interconnection provider

Principal Solutions Architect

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
No salary listed
Expert
London, UK
Hybrid
Solution EngineeringPre-Sales Solution Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 10 years of relevant experience in Solutions Architecture, Solutions Engineering, technical presales, or enterprise infrastructure architecture.
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex, strategically important enterprise customer engagements.
  • A strong technical background across data center infrastructure, networking, interconnection, and hybrid or multicloud architecture.
  • Experience developing architectures spanning multiple technology domains, locations, providers, and partner capabilities.
  • Proven ability to lead regional or global technical engagements and distributed teams.
  • Experience influencing senior technical and executive stakeholders.
  • A strong understanding of complex solution selling and the relationship between technical strategy and commercial outcomes.
  • Exceptional strategic architecture and technical problem-solving capability.
  • Ability to create complex, global architectures combining multiple services, technologies, and partner ecosystems.
  • Trusted-advisor presence and credibility with senior and executive customer stakeholders.
  • Ability to lead and influence complex cross-functional teams without direct authority.
  • Strong technical storytelling, presentation, and written communication skills.
  • Ability to simplify complex technical concepts and connect them to customer outcomes.
  • Strong collaboration, stakeholder management, and execution skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to mentor others, share knowledge, and raise technical standards.
  • A continuous-learning, customer-focused, and innovation-oriented mindset.
  • Proven ability to shape high-impact architecture engagements that influence significant customer and sales outcomes.
Responsibilities
  • Own the end-to-end technical strategy for complex strategic customers and opportunities.
  • Lead technical discovery, qualification, architecture development, and technical win strategy.
  • Create global, highly customised architectures combining Equinix capabilities, customer environments, and partner ecosystems at scale.
  • Align solutions with customers' long-term technology strategies and multi-year transformation journeys.
  • Lead major engagements spanning multiple services, technologies, regions, and stakeholders.
  • Deliver customer architecture, design recommendations, and technical documentation.
  • Position the differentiated value of Platform Equinix across data center, interconnection, digital services, and relevant managed services.
  • Articulate the strategic value of Equinix Fabric, physical interconnection, and ecosystem connectivity.
  • Develop architectures addressing networking, hybrid and multicloud, data adjacency, and infrastructure modernisation use cases.
  • Translate complex technical capabilities into clear customer and business outcomes.
  • Leverage partner and industry ecosystems to extend customer solutions and unlock additional value.
  • Act as a trusted technical advisor to senior customer stakeholders, including CIO, CTO, and senior architecture, infrastructure, network, and cloud leaders.
  • Influence strategic customer architecture decisions and technology roadmaps.
  • Lead architecture workshops and executive-level technical discussions.
  • Provide objective advice on architecture options, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs.
  • Help customers connect immediate infrastructure decisions with longer-term strategic objectives.
  • Lead cross-functional and global technical teams for strategic opportunities and complex customer requirements.
  • Lead technical tiger teams where requirements span multiple products, partners, regions, or technical domains.
  • Orchestrate distributed Equinix, partner, and customer teams around a common architecture and technical strategy.
  • Provide leadership where requirements are ambiguous or no established solution pattern exists.
  • Mentor Solutions Engineers and Architects and contribute to technical best practices and reusable architecture patterns.
  • Maintain strong knowledge of the EMEA Financial Services & Insurance technology landscape and apply this context to customer architecture engagements.
  • Identify repeatable Financial Services & Insurance infrastructure, interconnection, and ecosystem use cases.
  • Capture emerging customer requirements, architecture trends, and capability gaps.
  • Provide strategic customer feedback to Product and Engineering teams to help influence future capabilities and services.
  • Contribute thought leadership and knowledge across the wider Solutions Engineering organisation.
  • Architect at scale across services, technologies, partners, and geographies.
  • Advise at executive level and influence strategic customer roadmaps.
  • Orchestrate complex global teams across Equinix, customers, and partners.
  • Shape multi-year customer strategies, not just individual transactions.
  • Influence significant commercial outcomes through technical leadership.
  • Scale expertise by mentoring colleagues and developing reusable best practices.
  • Influence Equinix strategy and capabilities through insight from strategic customer engagements.
Desired Qualifications
  • Financial Services & Insurance industry experience is strongly desirable.
  • Familiarity with the Equinix portfolio and global platform is advantageous.

About the company

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Equinix provides data center space, colocation, interconnection, and cloud services for businesses worldwide. Customers rent space in Equinix data centers and use the company’s interconnected ecosystem to link networks, cloud platforms, and applications with low latency. Its global footprint and an ecosystem of thousands of customers create direct connections that simplify digital infrastructure, setting it apart from providers that only offer space. The goal is to help businesses run reliable digital operations and pursue multi-cloud strategies through secure data-center space and connected networks.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Redwood City, California

Founded

1998

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What believers are saying

  • July 2026 Q2 revenue hit $2.625 billion, up 16%, with record bookings.
  • Management accelerated 7,000 cabinets into Q4 2026, monetizing AI demand sooner.
  • Equinix’s third straight double-digit MRR growth reinforces durable recurring revenue momentum.

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  • Cape Town’s August 2026 appeal blocks Equinix’s hyperscale project until planners decide.
  • September 2026 Secaucus diesel spill triggered regulatory scrutiny and stricter data-center oversight.
  • Water- and power-intensive expansions risk community backlash, permit delays, and stranded-capacity economics.

What makes Equinix unique

  • Equinix’s July 2026 backlog and 522,700 interconnections deepen ecosystem lock-in.
  • Its 2026 raise to 11%-12% revenue growth shows pricing power and demand visibility.
  • Global retail-colocation scale lets Equinix serve enterprise, cloud, and AI workloads worldwide.

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  • Health care and counseling plans
  • Paid vacations and holidays
  • Programs and resources for family needs
  • Programs to build financial security, make donations, and seek additional education
  • Some countries offer flexible employee stock purchase plan

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AD HOC NEWS
Oct 21st, 2026
Equinix stock: Guggenheim reaffirms Buy rating with USD 1,235.00 target.

Equinix stock: Guggenheim reaffirms Buy rating with USD 1,235.00 target. Published on 10/21/2026 at 16:26 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS Revenue rose 16.00 percent to USD 2.63 billion in second quarter of 2026. Equinix stock costs EUR 878.50 on October 21, 2026 versus Xetra close. Analyst target and reporting date. * Guggenheim reaffirmed a USD 1,235.00 target on October 20, 2026. * Second-quarter revenue rose 16.00 percent to USD 2.63 billion. * Equinix stock costs EUR 878.50 at Lang & Schwarz on October 21, 2026 at 4:12 p.m. CEST. * Equinix will discuss third-quarter results on October 28, 2026. Equinix Inc. (ISIN US29444U7000) remains an analyst target story after Guggenheim reaffirmed a Buy rating and a USD 1,235.00 price target on October 20, 2026, according to MarketBeat. Equinix stock was trading at EUR 878.50 at Lang & Schwarz on October 21, 2026 at 4:12 p.m. CEST. Target leaves room for upside. The Guggenheim target stood 25.21 percent above Equinix's USD 986.37 Nasdaq price at 10:25 a.m. ET on October 21, 2026. The target is a valuation signal, not a forecast supplied by this article, and the gap depends on the currency and venue used for each figure. MarketBeat also reported that Guggenheim's rating was part of a broader analyst picture, with twenty-nine Buy ratings, one Strong Buy rating and four Hold ratings. The same report placed the average target at USD 1,206.34 and Equinix's market capitalization at USD 97.43 billion. Stock position before results. Equinix's Nasdaq price of USD 986.37 sat between a 52-week low of USD 720.62 and a 52-week high of USD 1,128.68 on October 21, 2026. The stock had traded 12.62 percent below that high and 36.88 percent above the low. Volume was 47,886 shares at 10:25 a.m. ET. The market capitalization was USD 97.3 billion and the price-to-earnings ratio was 63.53 on the same date. Those figures place the analyst target alongside a richly valued equity profile, while the current quote remains below the yearly high. What arrives on October 28? Equinix will discuss third-quarter results for the period ended September 30, 2026, during a conference call on October 28, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. ET. The date was announced by Equinix on October 1, 2026. The latest reported period was the second quarter of 2026. Equinix generated USD 2.625 billion in revenue, up 16.00 percent from the prior-year quarter, while monthly recurring revenue increased 11.00 percent and annualized gross bookings rose 23.00 percent, according to PR Newswire. The release also cited 9,700 net interconnections added during the quarter. Investor view before the call. The immediate question is whether the next report can sustain the operating momentum recorded in the second quarter while supporting the valuation embedded in the USD 1,235.00 target. The October 28 event supplies the next scheduled test for that relationship. The euro quote stood at EUR 878.50 at Lang & Schwarz on October 21, 2026 at 4:12 p.m. CEST. The further course of trading is shown by the continuously updated real-time quote of Equinix stock. Equinix stock facts. * Company: Equinix, Inc. * ISIN: US29444U7000 * Ticker: EQIX * Primary exchange: Nasdaq * Price Lang & Schwarz (as of October 21, 2026, 4:12 p.m. CEST): EUR 878.50 * Market capitalization: USD 97.3 billion (as of October 21, 2026) * 52-week range: USD 720.62-1,128.68 (as of October 21, 2026) * Sector / Industry: Real Estate / REIT - Specialty * Index membership: S&P 500 Sponsored Ad Equinix stock: new analysis - 23 October. Fresh Equinix information released. What's the impact for investors? Our latest independent report examines recent figures and market trends. Disclaimer regarding our articles: This is not investment advice, nor is it a recommendation to buy or sell. Information regarding prices, companies, and markets is provided without guarantee; changes may occur at any time. Stock market transactions can result in significant losses. Our articles are created and reviewed, in whole or in part, automatically with the assistance of AI. en | US29444U7000 | EQUINIX INC. boerse | 70385255 | bgmi

TechDay
Oct 21st, 2026
Equinix launches global liquid cooling test centres.

Equinix launches global liquid cooling test centres. Thu, 22nd Oct 2026 Equinix has launched a global network of innovation centres for enterprises testing liquid-cooled infrastructure, with sites in Frankfurt, London, Osaka, Paris and Sydney. The centres, called Equinix Enhanced Performance Innovation Centres, are designed to let companies test production-ready liquid cooling environments inside live Equinix data centres before wider deployment. The initiative targets enterprises building high-density AI infrastructure, as more powerful GPU and CPU systems increase rack densities and drive demand for liquid cooling. Many organisations still lack experience integrating cooling, power, networking and facility operations in a single environment. Each site allows customers to work with Equinix specialists and hardware partners to assess integrated liquid cooling systems under field conditions. The centres also support testing of AI training and inference workloads in operating data centre environments. The model is intended to help customers identify infrastructure and operational issues before production. Enterprises can use the sites to understand how liquid cooling technologies fit specific environments and answer operational questions ahead of deployment. Testing infrastructure The launch expands a broader Equinix effort to provide testing and validation spaces for customers and partners. The company opened its first Co-Innovation Facility in 2022 for partner collaboration on new technology before deployment in Equinix data centres, and later introduced Solution Validation Centres for customers reviewing distributed deployments. Liquid cooling has become a more prominent issue for data centre operators and enterprise IT teams as AI workloads move beyond pilot stages. Higher-density compute systems place greater demands on cooling and power design, prompting operators to examine whether existing air-cooled setups are sufficient for newer hardware. For enterprises, the challenge is often practical rather than theoretical. Deploying liquid-cooled systems requires coordination across several layers of infrastructure, from the hardware platform itself to networking, power distribution and the building environment in which the equipment runs. Enterprise demand "Liquid cooling is an essential component of modern enterprise infrastructure and a hard requirement for customers deploying AI," said Brian Stein, Senior Vice President, Infrastructure Products and Services at Equinix. "EPIC provides businesses with a place to test, validate and build with confidence before they commit to large-scale deployments. We're putting our global infrastructure footprint and unmatched ecosystem to work to accelerate the path from concept to production for our customers," added Stein. The centres are intended to let enterprise teams test infrastructure in the same type of live environment in which it will ultimately operate. Customers can review how different parts of the stack interact before making long-term investment decisions. Criteo's experience One early user cited by Equinix was ad technology group Criteo, which has been assessing liquid cooling as part of its distributed AI infrastructure planning. "Liquid cooling was new territory for us, so we built our confidence step by step," said Matthieu Blumberg, Senior Vice President of Engineering Infrastructure, Security, Internal IT & CISO at Criteo. "Our AI runs across a distributed footprint, and the infrastructure must perform the same way wherever it sits. We saw how liquid cooling performed in practice, learned what it took to run it well, and then committed to scale. Equinix was with us at every stage, with the expertise and the live environment to prove it out first. That's what turned liquid cooling from an open question into a core part of our distributed AI infrastructure." Equinix expects to open more EPIC locations in 2027.

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Oct 21st, 2026
Rio Tinto set to invest $2.7b in Queensland bauxite project.

Rio Tinto set to invest $2.7b in Queensland bauxite project. Equinix opens liquid cooling test site at Sydney data centre. 12:01am on 22 October 2026 The news: Equinix has launched an Enhanced Performance Innovation Center in Australia, a facility that enables prospective customers to test whether their AI infrastructure and chips are suited to the company's liquid cooling environment. The context: The facility is currently available in Sydney, Frankfurt, London, Osaka and Paris. Other locations are expected to open in 2027. The service lands at a time when increasingly powerful and dense GPU platforms designed for AI workload demand more sustainable cooling solutions. The federal government is currently also exploring new rules to require data centres to minimise their water use impacts. What they said: "Liquid cooling is an essential component of modern enterprise infrastructure and a hard requirement for customers deploying AI," said Equinix senior vice president infrastructure products and services Brian Stein. The source: Equinix media release Get the edition in your inbox. A must-read afternoon newsletter. Free to join, read by decision makers and featuring our top stories.

PR Newswire
Oct 21st, 2026
Equinix launches EPIC liquid cooling test centres in five cities for AI infrastructure

Equinix has launched the Enhanced Performance Innovation Centers (EPIC), a global network of production-ready liquid cooling environments where enterprises can test, build, and deploy high-density AI infrastructure. The centres are live in Frankfurt, London, Osaka, Paris, and Sydney, with more due to open in 2027. Each centre sits inside a live Equinix data centre. Customers can trial liquid-cooled GPU and CPU platforms with hardware partners and run AI training and inference workloads under real-world conditions, with Equinix experts on hand to spot problems before production. "EPIC provides businesses with a place to test, validate and build with confidence before they commit to large-scale deployments," said Brian Stein, senior vice president of infrastructure products and services at Equinix. EPIC builds on the Co-Innovation Facility announced in 2022 and the Solution Validation Centers launched in 2024.

Data Center Dynamics
Oct 21st, 2026
Equinix EPIC: Colo giant launches liquid-cooled testing environment for AI workloads.

Equinix EPIC: Colo giant launches liquid-cooled testing environment for AI workloads. Available at four data centers, more to be added October 21, 2026 Equinix is introducing a new range of liquid-cooled environments at four of its data centers to help customers with AI adoption. The colo giant has launched Equinix Enhanced Performance Innovation Centers (EPIC) at its data centers in Frankfurt, London, Osaka, and Paris. It described EPIC as "a global network of production-ready liquid cooling environments," and said it will "enable enterprises to test, build and deploy high-density AI infrastructure with the confidence and support of Equinix experts and leading technology partners." Businesses can trial liquid-cooled GPU and CPU platforms from Equinix's hardware partners, and test AI training and inference workloads under real-world conditions. Equinix staff will be on hand to help identify and solve operational issues ahead of full deployments. "Liquid cooling is an essential component of modern enterprise infrastructure and a hard requirement for customers deploying AI," said Brian Stein, SVP for infrastructure products and services at Equinix. "EPIC provides businesses with a place to test, validate, and build with confidence before they commit to large-scale deployments. We're putting our global infrastructure footprint and unmatched ecosystem to work to accelerate the path from concept to production for our customers." Equinix, which operates 282 data centers globally, said it will add more EPIC locations in 2027. The offering builds on its Solution Validation Centers, launched in 2024 for customers to validate regular workloads. It marks Equinix's latest foray into AI infrastructure. In September, the company announced it was working with Nvidia and Together AI on an inference platform. More in colocation & wholesale.