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About the Role

This senior engineering leadership role within the CTO organization is responsible for technical authority, engineering excellence, and electrical design governance across complex mission-critical data center programs in EMEA. It provides technical leadership for hyperscale, colocation, AI, and high-density compute deployments, acting as a senior subject matter expert for electrical engineering systems throughout the project lifecycle. The role ensures the technical quality, robustness, resilience, and compliance of electrical systems across the EMEA portfolio, aligning with Vantage product standards and operational objectives. It is critical for protecting the technical integrity of the Vantage platform, ensuring mission-critical electrical systems meet high standards of resilience, performance, safety, and operational reliability, especially during the transition to standardized, scalable, and product-led deployment models.

Responsibilities

Act as senior electrical technical authority and design leader across the EMEA portfolio.
Provide technical leadership for MV/LV distribution, substations, UPS systems, generators, and critical power infrastructure.
Review and approve electrical designs and technical outputs, ensuring compliance with standards for resilience, reliability, and performance.
Lead electrical engineering strategy and technical direction for mission-critical projects, aligning with industry standards (Uptime Institute Tier, TIA-942, IEC, BS).
Develop and continuously improve technical reference designs and engineering standards, driving consistency and quality.
Ensure electrical engineering outputs support constructability, commissioning readiness, operational acceptance, and lifecycle maintainability.
Own and evolve electrical system architecture and design philosophy aligned with product platforms.
Lead electrical engineering project teams across major programs, providing technical direction and escalation support.
Oversee electrical engineering delivery from concept through commissioning and operational handover.
Manage and technically lead external engineering consultants and design partners, ensuring compliance with Vantage standards.
Provide SME leadership across mission-critical electrical systems including HV/MV/LV, UPS, generator, protection, and energy storage systems.
Support complex engineering studies such as load flow, short circuit, arc flash, and protection coordination analysis.
Support Product and Mission Critical Engineering alignment for EMEA product platforms and standardization initiatives.
Evaluate and support the adoption of innovative technologies for AI-ready infrastructure, high-density compute, liquid cooling, and renewable energy.
Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering performance, resilience, and energy efficiency.
Support commercial activities including fee proposals, bids, technical submissions, and customer negotiations.
Assist with project fee forecasting, engineering resource planning, and technical risk assessment.
Represent Vantage at client meetings, technical forums, and industry events.
Report on engineering performance, technical risk, resilience, and quality across the portfolio.

Requirements

Degree-qualified in Electrical Engineering or Building Services Engineering.
Chartered Engineer status with IET, CIBSE, or equivalent professional body.
10–15+ years’ experience delivering electrical engineering within mission-critical or large-scale infrastructure environments.
Significant experience across hyperscale, colocation, AI, or high-availability data center platforms.
Strong experience across hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, or edge data center environments.
Deep technical understanding of critical electrical infrastructure systems including HV/MV/LV systems, UPS systems, standby generation, substations, and mission-critical distribution architectures.
Proven experience leading complex engineering programs and multidisciplinary engineering teams.
Strong experience reviewing and approving technical engineering deliverables and consultant outputs.
Proven capability operating as a senior technical authority within complex engineering environments.
Strong understanding of engineering governance, resilience strategies, redundancy concepts, and operational risk management.
Experience operating within consulting engineering, contractor, owner/operator, or integrated delivery environments.
Experience supporting modular, prefabricated, or industrialized delivery models (Preferred).
Experience with BIM-enabled engineering workflows and Revit-based coordination (Preferred).
Experience supporting engineering activities across multiple international markets (Preferred).
Experience supporting AI-ready infrastructure and liquid cooling deployments (Preferred).
Understanding of product-led deployment models and standardized engineering platforms (Preferred).
Experience contributing to technical standards, engineering governance frameworks, or engineering assurance programs (Preferred).

Skills

Strong technical authority and engineering judgment.
Systems thinking across complex mission-critical environments.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong leadership and mentoring capability.
Ability to operate effectively across technical, operational, commercial, and executive environments.
Strong problem-solving and engineering risk management capability.
High attention to technical detail and engineering quality.
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Commercial awareness and understanding of engineering impact on cost, program, and operational performance.
Collaborative leadership style with strong accountability and ownership.
Engineering-led and technically authoritative.
Delivery-aware and commercially grounded.
Calm and credible under pressure.
Strong mentor and technical leader.
Focused on resilience, quality, and operational outcomes.
Able to balance engineering excellence with practical deployment realities.
Collaborative across Product, Delivery, Operations, and Commercial functions.
Focused on long-term platform improvement rather than isolated project optimization.

Location

EMEA

Experience Level

10–15+ years’ experience

Education Level

Degree-qualified in Electrical Engineering or Building Services Engineering
Chartered Engineer status with IET, CIBSE, or equivalent professional body

Benefits

Above market total compensation package
Comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits exceeding local expectations
Array of benefits, recognition, training and development
Contribution adds value to the company and our community

About the Company

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects, and connects technology for hyperscalers, cloud providers, and large enterprises.
The company develops and operates across North America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific, evolving data center design for reliability, efficiency, and sustainability.
Vantage designs, builds, and operates mission-critical digital infrastructure for leading hyperscalers, cloud providers, and AI platforms.
It delivers scalable, high-performance data center solutions with a focus on reliability, speed to market, operational resilience, and long-term asset value.
Vantage is expanding its engineering capability in EMEA to support complex mission-critical infrastructure systems, driven by demand for AI-ready infrastructure and high-density compute environments.

Equal Opportunity

Vantage Data Centers is an Equal Opportunity Employer