Senior Technical Data Center Manager

Description

Fermi America is seeking a Senior Data Center Technical Manager to serve as the technical authority for all data center engineering and infrastructure systems across Fermi’s hyperscale program. This role owns the full spectrum of technical engineering within the DC space—electrical, mechanical, controls, fire protection, and building management systems—ensuring that design standards, equipment specifications, and vendor commitments produce constructable, maintainable, and reliable infrastructure.

The DC Sr Technical Manager will serve as Fermi’s design liaison, bridging the gap between Fermi’s technical standards and external design consultants, integrators, and engineering partners. This role reviews design deliverables for conformance with Fermi’s basis of design, drives technical standardization across all building packages, and ensures that engineering decisions translate into field-ready solutions. When the tenant encounters design or engineering challenges, this role leads the technical resolution while upholding and protecting Fermi’s design integrity.

The DC Sr Technical Manager will lead a team of discipline-specific subject matter experts—electrical, mechanical, and controls—providing technical governance across all data center packages. This role also owns vendor management strategy for critical data center equipment, ensuring technical specifications and vendor capacity commitments are aligned with construction delivery schedules and customer requirements.

This role reports directly to the Head of DC Service & Delivery and works closely with procurement, design integration, preconstruction, construction, safety, quality, and project controls functions. This is a matrix environment where success depends on influence and partnership as much as direct authority. The right leader builds strong, collaborative relationships across every function and fosters a culture of transparency, shared accountability, and mutual respect.

• Serve as Fermi’s technical authority across all data center MEP disciplines—electrical distribution, mechanical cooling, controls and automation, fire protection, and building management systems—ensuring design and construction decisions meet Fermi’s performance, reliability, and redundancy standards
• Act as the design liaison between Fermi and external design consultants, integrators, and engineering firms—reviewing design deliverables for conformance with Fermi’s basis of design (BOD), technical standards, and applicable industry codes (Uptime Institute, ASHRAE, NFPA, NETA, TIA-942)
• Own and maintain Fermi’s data center basis of design and technical standards documentation, driving consistency across all building packages and ensuring standards evolve as the program scales and technology advances
• Interface with the tenant’s technical representatives on design and engineering challenges—providing technical support, evaluating proposed modifications for impact on facility systems, and ensuring resolutions uphold Fermi’s design integrity and do not compromise redundancy, reliability, or other tenants’ infrastructure
• Own the technical specification and vendor qualification process for all critical data center equipment—including medium-voltage switch gear, UPS systems, PDUs, generators, cooling distribution units, chillers, and building management systems
• Lead and mentor a team of DC subject matter experts (Electrical SME, Mechanical SME, Controls SME) to provide technical oversight across all active and upcoming building packages
• Establish and maintain vendor capacity tracking systems, monitoring supplier production schedules, factory acceptance testing, and delivery commitments
• Drive technical standardization across the data center program—defining preferred equipment platforms, approved vendor lists, and standard specification packages to reduce design variability and accelerate procurement
• Partner with the QA/QC Commissioning Manager on commissioning and technical readiness—providing technical input on performance goals, redundancy validation protocols, and testing sequences to ensure every building is energized safely and meets…