Data Center Expert Specialist Manager

As a Specialist Manager at Kearney, you will be a key contributor to the growth and development of our Technology Center of Excellence for Telecom (TCOE), offering honest advice and practical guidance to our clients.

The TCOE is a small group of expert consultants who work alongside Kearney’s broader consulting teams to bring deep, practical technology expertise into client engagements. They focus on highly technical topics across network and IT domains, enabling effective collaboration with telecom engineering and operations teams while ensuring recommendations are grounded in real‑world feasibility and deliver measurable impact.

After nearly 100 years, we know this business is fundamentally about making connections—between facts, figures, insights, strategies, tools, technologies, and above all, people. That’s why we look for collaborative, insightful, and inquisitive problem‑solvers who don’t accept the first thing in front of them and who are always unapologetically themselves.

• Bring deep, hands‑on expertise in one or more core data center domains, including full rack architecture and design (compute, memory, storage, network configurations), power and cooling systems, DCIM software, facilities and fit‑out, and data center operations.
• Complement that depth with strong working knowledge across adjacent areas, including coverage of both regular and AI‑focused data centers.
• Act as a senior technical authority on client engagements, leading and owning technically complex work streams related to data center design, expansion, modernization, and operational optimization.
• Evaluate, challenge, and guide data center architectures, technical specifications, and vendor proposals, ensuring solutions meet performance, resilience, scalability, regulatory, and cost requirements.
• Support clients across the infrastructure lifecycle—site selection, capacity planning, design standards, technology selection, and delivery/commissioning approaches.
• Translate technical trade‑offs into clear business implications while engaging credibly and in depth with client engineering, facilities, and operations teams.
• Engage across the broader infrastructure value chain—including facilities, power and environmental systems, servers and IT equipment, colocation, and interconnect.
• Independently structure and lead technical work streams, combining rigorous analysis with practical execution planning, risk identification, and delivery oversight.
• Work closely with generalist consulting teams, providing technical direction, raising solution quality, and ensuring recommendations are grounded in real‑world feasibility.
• Coach junior and non‑specialist consultants, contributing to the development of reusable technical frameworks, standards, and methodologies within the TCOE.
• Support business development through technically credible input into proposals, client discussions, and the shaping of new data center and digital infrastructure offerings.

Every day, our people work to be the difference for our clients, our communities, and our colleagues. Helping them make an impact, they are sustained by a competitive remuneration package and comprehensive benefits and perks.

• Generous retirement/pension savings contributions
• Comprehensive medical insurance for employees and immediate family
• Gym membership discounts
• Non‑partner equity‑based awards (for consulting managers and above)
• Structured and on‑the‑job learning and development opportunities
• Personalized opportunities including talent mobility, flexible work programs, and externships to help you chart a unique career journey
• Manager compensation range: $194k to $212k

It is important to note that at Kearney, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the top of the range for their role. Individual salaries within each range are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, and skills. Kearney reviews compensation regularly and may adjust base salaries to reflect market competitiveness.

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