Principal DCIM Design Engineer

It’s exhilarating to find yourself at a pivotal moment in history— and even more so to be leading the way. At QTS Data Centers, we are proud to stand at the forefront of today’s dynamic digital transformation. Our world-class data centers empower our customers’ most strategic growth initiatives, positioning us as a global leader in digital infrastructure.

As AI and cloud technologies fuel the demand for increased speed, capacity, and innovation, QTS has emerged as the global digital infrastructure leader. We are committed to connecting the globe for good. Driven by purpose and a spirit of innovation, we design, build, and operate some of the most advanced data centers worldwide. In addition to our cutting‑edge technology, we are dedicated to sustainability, incorporating renewable energy solutions to minimize our environmental footprint and drive meaningful impact.

As a proud portfolio company of Blackstone, QTS is uniquely positioned to achieve ambitious growth and innovation goals.

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In addition to a variety of benefit packages, QTS goes above and beyond for our employees:

• Roth and Traditional 401(k) matching contributions with immediate vesting
• Every employee is bonus or commission eligible
• Generous PTO, Paid Volunteer Days Plus Floating Holidays
• Stock Purchase Plan (SPP)
• 11 paid Holidays Annually/Holiday compensation when worked
• Pet and Legal Insurance
• Q-Rest Sabbatical Program
• Q-Anniversary Service Award Program
• Parental Leave for primary and secondary caregivers
• Military Benefits Package
• QTS Charitable Matching Gift Program
• QTS Scholarship for Employee Dependents
• QTS Crisis Fund
• Wellness Program
• Tuition Reimbursement Program

The Principal DCIM Design Engineer is responsible for the design, standardization, coordination, and delivery of advanced building management and power monitoring systems (BMS, EPMS, SCADA) across the QTS data center portfolio. This role serves as a design and standards leader, partner integrator, and systems strategist for scalable delivery of Data Center Infrastructure Management platforms. The ideal candidate brings a strong background in industrial controls engineering, coupled with strategic design experience in mission‑critical environments.

They will drive development of design standards, sequence of operations, instrumentation and control documentation, alarming strategies, integration models, and commissioning readiness across our portfolio. The candidate must demonstrate strong vendor coordination, mentoring capability, and an aptitude for cross-functional leadership.

Other duties may be assigned. –

• Lead development and refinement of the DCIM design Basis of Design (BOD) and owner requirements.
• Manage, onboard, and lead AEOR Controls teams as well as owner directed Design System Integrator (DSI) to include business review and cadenced calibrations.
• Direct design consultants and partners in defining architecture, instrumentation, alarming and integration requirements for control systems.
• Develop and implement enterprise-wide controls and alarming standards across BMS/EPMS/SCADA platforms.
• Define product and platform requirements across Aveva System Platform, Ignition, and open I/O frameworks.
• Lead internal reviews of sequence of operations, system architecture, and P&.
• Champion point naming conventions, alarming logic, historical data trending structure, and DCIM integration schemas.
• Collaborate with consultants and integrators during software and factory testing, and ensure consistency with QTS expectations.
• Provide QA/QC oversight during design, deployment, and commissioning.
• Drive digital twin and simulation initiatives to de-risk controls logic and optimize system behavior pre-deployment.
• Partner with procurement and project teams to support Scope of Work (SOW) creation, RFP…