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About the Role

Lead and coordinate front-end development activities for European AI data centre projects, including greenfield, brownfield, and Colocation opportunities. Drive site due diligence, acquisition, permitting, and utility agreements, managing consultants, authorities, and internal teams. This role requires commercial sharpness, strong organization, and thrives in an entrepreneurial culture, serving as a point of accountability throughout the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Strategically match End User GPU needs with available capacity across the EMEA region.
Develop site feasibility assessments and business cases, evaluating power, fibre, water, environmental, and planning constraints.
Coordinate multidisciplinary due diligence, managing consultants and internal teams.
Support commercial negotiations with landowners, developers, and partners.
Maintain acquisition trackers, risk registers, and gating documentation.
Drive front-end development from feasibility through developed design, including permitting roadmaps, risk mitigations, enabling works, and power strategies.
Lead utility engagement for power, fibre, gas, and water, including grid connection applications and capacity assessments.
Produce and develop early-stage Project Execution Plans.
Develop risk-adjusted project cost plans and schedules.
Manage development budgets, schedules, risk registers, and reporting.
Coordinate planning and operational permitting applications and technical submissions across multiple EMEA jurisdictions.
Engage proactively with local authorities, utility providers, landowners, and communities.
Manage permitting and licensing roadmaps, approval conditions, and regulatory compliance.
Enable sales teams to market opportunities as new sites progress.
Act as a connector across development, design, delivery, legal, finance, procurement, compute deployment, operations, and delivery teams.
Contribute to the evolution of Nscale's development standards, governance frameworks, and delivery processes.
Stay ahead of market shifts, sharing insights to refine strategy.

Requirements

Ideally, 3+ years in client-side, front-end development of data centres, mission-critical infrastructure, or complex real estate.
Proven experience across site acquisition, due diligence, permitting, entitlements, and pre-construction coordination.
Strong grasp of utility infrastructure, planning systems, and large-scale development processes.

Skills

Clear communication to translate complex technical and commercial information for diverse audiences.
Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Commercially astute with the confidence to challenge assumptions and present business cases.
Collaborative yet decisive, comfortable holding accountability and driving outcomes.
Adaptable and curious, energized by a high-growth business environment.
Proactive and commercially aware.
Takes ownership.
Communicates with confidence.
Brings structure to complexity.

Location

Flexible within UK / Europe
Travel required to development sites, stakeholder meetings, and project engagements.

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Development Manager
Senior Development Manager

Education Level

Degree in Engineering, Planning, Real Estate, Construction Management, or a related discipline.

About the Company

Nscale is building the next generation of infrastructure for Europe’s AI revolution, creating large-scale, mission-critical data centre campuses for hyperscalers, AI pioneers, and enterprise innovators across EMEA.
We move fast, think boldly, and hold ourselves to the highest standards of development and delivery.
We are positioned at the heart of the AI transformation, delivering platforms for the next decade of innovation.
We develop cutting-edge, sovereign generative AI solutions powered by high-performance, sustainable data centres and GPUs built for AI workloads.
We integrate next-generation compute hardware and GPU clusters with world-leading AI technology providers.

Equal Opportunity

We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.