Senior Design Manager

Location: Greater London

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** Join Kao Data as a Senior Design Manager - Drive Excellence in AI-Focused Data Centres!
** Kao Data leads the industry, pioneering the development and operation of data centres engineered for AI and advanced computing. With a hyperscale-inspired and industrial scale platform, we provide our customers with a secure, scalable, and sustainable home for their compute.

Design and Construction at Kao Data is the engine behind our high-performance digital infrastructure. Our multidisciplinary team integrates architectural design, structural engineering, and advanced construction methodologies to deliver hyperscale data centres with precision and speed. Leveraging BIM, modular construction, and sustainable design principles, we optimise every phase - from concept to commissioning. It’s a dynamic environment for professionals who thrive on technical complexity, innovation, and delivering mission-critical facilities that power the future of AI and cloud computing.
** About the Role
** Kao Data have an in-house design management team which forms part of the overall project delivery team.  Our Design Managers are skilled mechanical or electrical engineers whose role is to assist all elements of the business with any technical, design and engineering related assistance.

We are looking for an experienced Design Manager to lead the management of design and development for new technology suites, DC buildings and campuses. The Design Manager will primarily support new-build projects through the RIBA stages and also deliver projects on live operational sites. In this leadership role you will be the single point of contact on your projects for your colleagues as well as consultants, vendors and contractors.

You will support develop and mentor more junior design managers.

As a Design Manager you will support the operational team with the upgrade and…