DC Senior Technical Specialist

Description

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

The Senior Data Center Technical Specialist serves as Fermi’s design liaison, connecting Fermi’s technical standards with the consultants, integrators, and engineering partners responsible for meeting them. 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 a tenant encounters design or engineering challenges, this role leads the technical resolution while protecting Fermi’s design integrity.

The Senior Data Center Technical Specialist draws discipline-specific expertise from Fermi’s campus-wide Engineering Team, which includes the DC Electrical Subject Matter Expert, DC Mechanical Subject Matter Expert, and DC Controls & Operational Technology Lead. This role also owns the vendor-management strategy for critical data center equipment, ensuring that technical specifications and vendor-capacity commitments align with construction delivery schedules and customer requirements.

Owning the standard is what makes it enforceable. Under lump-sum turnkey delivery—where the design-build partner controls both design and construction—this role serves as Fermi’s technical check on that partner. The Senior Data Center Technical Specialist holds the design-builder, consultants, and integrator accountable to Fermi’s basis of design throughout construction and commissioning, not solely during design review.

The role maintains the technical thread from design development through installation, commissioning, and turnover, ensuring that issues created early in the process are not discovered late.

This role reports to the Head of DC Service & Delivery and works closely with the Director of DC Construction, DC Facility Operations Manager, Procurement, Preconstruction, Construction, Safety, Quality, and Project Controls teams.

Fermi operates in a matrix environment where success depends on influence and partnership as much as direct authority. The right technical leader will build strong, collaborative relationships across every function and foster a culture of transparency, shared accountability, and mutual respect.

• Serve as Fermi’s technical authority across all data center MEP disciplines, including electrical distribution, mechanical cooling, controls and automation, fire protection, and building management systems. Ensure that design and construction decisions meet Fermi’s performance, reliability, and redundancy standards.
• Hold the design-build partner, design consultants, and integrator accountable to Fermi’s basis of design and technical standards throughout construction—not solely during design review—and elevate deviations before they are built.
• Verify installed work against approved design documents, submittals, and vendor data through field walkdowns and installation reviews rather than relying on document review alone.
• Identify, document, and drive the resolution of technical nonconformances, with the authority to reject work that does not meet design-intent, redundancy, or reliability requirements.
• Carry open technical issues across the design, construction, and…