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About the Role

Lead the technical design development of nLighten's expanding data center portfolio, acting as a key interface between strategy, design, and delivery. Provide technical leadership, drive clarity, resolve challenges, and ensure designs are optimized for cost, program, statutory compliance, and operational requirements in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the development of masterplans into construction-ready designs for data center projects.
• Drive consistency, scalability, and repeatability across the portfolio by ensuring good design governance.
• Support the continuous improvement of the nLighten design system, including standards, specifications, and reference designs.
• Oversee design review, change, and approval processes, and the timely resolution of technical queries in compliance with minimum standards.
• Review and validate multidisciplinary design outputs (electrical, mechanical, civil, and architectural) to ensure high-quality design definitions for cost-optimized infrastructure.
• Ensure the delivery of technically complete, contractually robust information for construction permits, utility services, and construction works.
• Oversee the delivery of permits and tender information.
• Enable the procurement of utility services and construction works.
• Recommend, appoint, and manage external design consultants, engineers, and architects.
• Act as a key interface between the CTO, internal teams, and external partners.
• Work with procurement to ensure effective, best-value procurement of design activities.
• Support and manage budgeting for design activities.
• Manage design processes and timelines to program, ensuring timely delivery in alignment with wider project schedules, with a clear audit trail and approval process.
• Maintain robust documentation, approvals, and governance trails.
• Manage the definition of project design scope to ensure precise, complete, and clear allocation of design-related responsibilities.
• Travel to project sites as needed to oversee design implementation and stakeholder engagement.

Requirements

• 10+ years in data centre design, engineering, or technical delivery (contractor, client, or consultant side), with experience managing multidisciplinary design teams across multiple projects.
• Strong engineering mindset with the ability to think logically, scientifically, and mathematically.
• Solid knowledge of electrical and mechanical systems, architectural considerations, and related engineering fields.
• Familiarity with key design tools such as ETAP, Ansys, 6Sigma, and Revit.
• Ability to handle complex technical queries and interface across multiple stakeholders including CTO, operations, and contractors.
• Proven ability to build and manage relationships with external design consultants and engineering firms.
• Strong grasp of UK statutory and regulatory requirements.
• Broad spectrum experience across enterprise, co-location, and build-to-suit environments is preferred.
• Fluent or native English is required.
• Bilingual proficiency, particularly in German or French, is an advantage.
• All selected candidates will undergo a background check.

Skills

• Data centre design
• Engineering
• Technical delivery
• Multidisciplinary design management
• Electrical systems
• Mechanical systems
• Architectural considerations
• ETAP
• Ansys
• 6Sigma
• Revit
• Stakeholder management
• Consultant management
• Procurement
• Budgeting
• Program management
• Documentation management
• Design governance

Location

• UK
• Netherlands
• France
• Germany

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Director
• 10+ years

Education Level

• Degree-level education in engineering or architecture
• CEng or equivalent is preferred

Benefits

• Opportunities to grow laterally and vertically at a pivotal stage of expansion.
• Help shape design management policies and processes for a rapidly scaling data center portfolio.
• Work and lead on AI-driven projects, liquid chip cooling solutions, and other innovative high-resolution designs.
• Work directly with senior leadership, using design expertise to drive project efficiencies and scalability.
• Hybrid work flexibility.

About the Company

• nLighten is a European platform of distributed edge data centers, designed to meet the growing demand for AI, 5G, and hybrid cloud deployments.
• As a rapidly expanding provider, we offer scalable colocation hubs and best-in-class energy solutions across Europe.
• Our innovative and sustainable approach to digital infrastructure ensures reliability, efficiency, and future-ready solutions for our clients.
• nLighten’s current footprint is 34 data centers in 7 European countries, with the ambition to grow to 100 sites during the next 3-4 years.

Equal Opportunity

• nLighten is an equal opportunity employer.
• We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
• Even if you do not meet every requirement listed, we welcome your application.
• We particularly encourage women and individuals from underrepresented groups to apply.