Senior Manager of Data Centre Design

Senior Manager, Data Center Design

Barbican, London

£150,000

A Senior Manager, Data Center Design role is available for a technical leader who wants to define the standards behind next-generation AI infrastructure. This is a hands-on leadership position focused on creating and maintaining design standards across complex, high-performance data centre environments.

Working across electrical, mechanical, civil and BIM disciplines, you will combine technical depth with commercial awareness and delivery capability. This role suits someone who enjoys building the framework from the ground up, getting into engineering detail when required and influencing consultants, contractors and senior stakeholders.

• £150,000 salary plus 30% bonus
• Opportunity to shape design standards for advanced AI infrastructure environments
• Senior technical ownership across multiple disciplines
• Exposure to executive stakeholders, EPCs, design consultants and specialist delivery partners

• Create and maintain electrical, mechanical, civil and BIM design standards across live projects
• Review and provide technical input on consultant and contractor design packages
• Work through detailed engineering considerations including power distribution, cooling strategies and structural requirements for high-density compute environments
• Participate directly in design workshops and technical discussions with EPCs and consultants
• Define technical requirements and review supplier and contractor responses
• Build and develop technical leadership capability across electrical, mechanical, civil and BIM disciplines as the portfolio expands
• Provide hands-on technical guidance while maintaining consistency across project delivery

• Strong hands-on design experience in electrical or mechanical engineering within data centres or similarly complex mission-critical facilities
• Experience reviewing, developing or producing technical design documentation rather than only managing review processes
• Knowledge of high-density compute environments, including GPU infrastructure considerations
• Understanding of cooling strategies, including air and liquid cooling approaches
• Experience challenging and influencing consultants, EPCs and technical stakeholders on engineering decisions
• Ability to establish standards and processes from the ground up
• Engineering degree in mechanical, electrical or a related discipline

• Experience working across European and US data centre markets and relevant codes
• Exposure to liquid cooling technologies such as direct liquid cooling or cooling distribution units
• Chartered Engineer status or equivalent

If you are a technical design leader who enjoys building standards, solving complex engineering challenges and remaining close to delivery,