Data Center Design Lead Electrical

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We are seeking a Data Center Electrical Design Lead to provide senior technical leadership for the electrical design of large-scale data center and mission‑critical infrastructure projects across North America. This role will support the growth of our Data Center practice by leading electrical design strategy, technical governance, project delivery, client engagement, and capability development across hyperscale, cloud, AI, colocation, enterprise, and mission‑critical environments.

The successful candidate will bring deep, dedicated data center electrical design expertise, including critical power distribution, utility coordination, medium‑voltage and low‑voltage systems, UPS, generators, switch gear, substations, grounding, power quality, redundancy, capacity planning, commissioning, and operational resilience. The role requires a leader who understands the complexity of mission‑critical electrical infrastructure and can translate client objectives into reliable, scalable, efficient, and constructable design solutions.

Working closely with mechanical, structural, architectural, civil, telecoms, commissioning, construction, utility, commercial, and global delivery teams, the Electrical Design Lead will provide senior technical direction, support strategic pursuits, improve delivery standards, mentor teams, and help establish a market‑leading electrical capability within the North American Data Center practice.

• Lead electrical design strategy for major data center projects across North America, including hyperscale, cloud, AI, colocation, enterprise, and mission‑critical facilities.
• Provide technical leadership from site feasibility and utility planning through concept design, detailed engineering, construction support, commissioning, and operational handover.
• Develop resilient and scalable electrical architectures that support uptime, redundancy, maintainability, energy efficiency, phasing, speed‑to‑market, and long‑term operational performance.
• Lead the design and review of utility interconnections, substations, medium‑voltage distribution, low‑voltage distribution, switch gear, transformers, UPS systems, generators, fuel systems interface, busways, grounding, lightning protection, power monitoring, and emergency power systems.
• Support AI‑ready and high‑density data center environments through capacity planning, power density strategy, redundancy modelling, load growth analysis, and coordination with cooling infrastructure.
• Coordinate closely with utilities, owners, developers, construction teams, procurement teams, and equipment vendors to address power availability,…