About the Role
As Talent Acquisition Partner - Engineering & Infrastructure (Data Centres), you will help build the teams driving the growth of digital infrastructure, partnering with leaders across Development, Design & Engineering, Delivery, and Operations to recruit specialists for hyperscale data centres across EMEA. This role involves acting as a trusted advisor, providing market intelligence, workforce planning, and talent strategy to influence hiring decisions.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, acting as their talent advisor on workforce planning, market intelligence and recruitment strategy.
- Manage end-to-end recruitment across engineering, development, delivery and operations functions.
- Recruit technical professionals including Mechanical, Electrical, Design, Controls, Project Management and Critical Operations talent.
- Develop proactive talent pipelines through direct sourcing, talent mapping, networking and specialist channels.
- Provide market intelligence covering salary trends, competitor activity, talent availability and emerging skills.
- Influence hiring decisions using evidence, commercial judgement and external market insight.
- Leverage AI tools responsibly to enhance sourcing, research, talent mapping and productivity.
- Use recruitment data to identify trends and tell a compelling story that supports business decisions.
- Deliver an exceptional candidate and hiring manager experience while strengthening STACK's employer brand.
Requirements
- Proven experience recruiting technical professionals across engineering, infrastructure, construction, building services or mission-critical environments.
- Experience hiring Mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Design Engineers, Solutions Engineers, Project Managers and Technical Operations professionals.
- Passionate about partnering with Engineering Directors and senior stakeholders, building credibility through market insight and influencing hiring decisions.
- Naturally curious, enjoying talent mapping and finding candidates others can't.
- Commercially aware, balancing quality, speed, cost and long-term capability.
- AI fluent, using AI to automate low-value activity so more time is spent advising stakeholders and engaging candidates.
- Experience recruiting across Europe, especially Italy and ideally Switzerland, Germany, UK, France and Norway.
- Excellent communication, relationship-building and stakeholder management skills.
Skills
- Talent Acquisition
- Recruitment Strategy
- Workforce Planning
- Market Intelligence
- Direct Sourcing
- Talent Mapping
- Networking
- AI Tools
- Data Analysis
- Employer Branding
- Mechanical Engineering Recruitment
- Electrical Engineering Recruitment
- Design Engineering Recruitment
- Solutions Engineering Recruitment
- Project Management Recruitment
- Technical Operations Recruitment
- Construction Recruitment
- Building Services Recruitment
- Mission-Critical Environments Recruitment
- European Recruitment
- Communication Skills
- Relationship Building
- Stakeholder Management
Location
- Europe
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits designed to support you both professionally and personally.
About the Company
- STACK is a proven, trusted partner for the world's most innovative companies, designing, developing and operating sustainable global digital infrastructure.
- Backed by an unmatched record of reliable delivery and development expertise, STACK brings speed, scale, certainty and responsibility to the demands of a rapidly evolving digital infrastructure landscape.
