Senior Manager - Data Centre Infrastructure Delivery

Accountabilities

• • Lead the planning, design review, construction, commissioning, and handover of data centre and mission-critical infrastructure projects.
  • Oversee civil, structural, architectural, and site development activities, ensuring projects meet technical, quality, safety, cost, and schedule requirements.
  • Manage EPC contractors and other delivery partners while maintaining strong governance over project execution, quality assurance, health and safety, and construction performance.
  • Lead electrical infrastructure delivery, including substations, medium- and low-voltage systems, transformers, switchgear, UPS systems, generators, and power distribution networks.
  • Ensure power infrastructure delivers the required redundancy, resilience, and operational availability in line with Tier III/Tier IV requirements.
  • Manage testing, commissioning, integrated testing, and operational-readiness activities across critical infrastructure systems.
  • Oversee HVAC and cooling infrastructure, including chilled water, DX, CRAH/CRAC, precision cooling, hot/cold aisle containment, and thermal optimisation solutions.
  • Coordinate the integration of cooling infrastructure with BMS and energy management platforms to support efficient and reliable operations.
  • Lead coordination of ELV, SCADA, DCIM, digital monitoring, and other smart-building or system-integration technologies.
  • Drive integrated system testing and commissioning to ensure that interconnected infrastructure operates as designed.
  • Identify and resolve delivery risks, technical issues, and interface challenges across multiple engineering disciplines.
  • Where applicable, support the delivery of modular or containerized data centre solutions.

  Requirements

  • 12–15+ years of professional experience delivering data centre, mission-critical, or similarly complex infrastructure projects.
  • Proven experience managing the complete data centre lifecycle from design and construction through commissioning and handover.
  • Strong technical expertise across civil and structural construction, electrical infrastructure, HVAC and cooling systems, EPC project delivery, and testing and commissioning.
  • Demonstrated experience with substations, MV/LV distribution, transformers, switchgear, UPS, generators, and resilient power architectures.
  • Strong understanding of critical cooling technologies, including chilled water, DX, CRAH/CRAC, precision cooling, thermal optimisation, and aisle containment.
  • Working knowledge of ELV systems, BMS, SCADA, DCIM, digital monitoring, and integrated system technologies.
  • Familiarity with Tier III/Tier IV, TIA-942, ASHRAE, and Uptime Institute standards and requirements.
  • Strong project leadership, contractor management, stakeholder coordination, and problem-solving capabilities.
  • Ability to manage multiple technical workstreams while maintaining focus on safety, quality, schedule, and operational readiness.
  • Strong understanding of commissioning methodologies and integrated testing for mission-critical environments.
  • Experience delivering data centre projects in the Middle East is preferred.
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Construction, Infrastructure, or a related technical discipline.
  • Strong communication, leadership, decision-making, and negotiation skills suitable for senior-level project environments.

  Benefits

  • Full-time employment with a remote working arrangement.
  • Senior-level opportunity with responsibility for major mission-critical infrastructure programmes.
  • Exposure to large-scale data centre design, construction, power, cooling, commissioning, and smart-building technologies.
  • Opportunity to work across multidisciplinary engineering and infrastructure functions.
  • Scope to influence project delivery standards, operational readiness, resilience, and technical performance.
  • Opportunity to work with advanced data centre technologies and internationally recognised infrastructure standards.
  • Professional environment suited to experienced infrastructure and mission-critical project leaders.