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About the Role
Shape the future of design standards for mission-critical infrastructure. As the EMEA Design & Engineering Standards Lead, you will own and evolve regional Design, Engineering and Construction standards for new-build data center developments in EMEA. This senior individual contributor role supports technical consistency, change management, quality, and continuous improvement across the portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Own, manage, and continuously update the Regional Design Engineering Guidelines in close collaboration with global and regional design teams.
- Review and QA/QC design deliverables across regional projects to ensure compliance with design standards, engineering guidelines, and business requirements.
- Act as a subject matter expert for design reviews, providing technical guidance and responding to design escalations from project teams.
- Attend design page turn meetings, identify inconsistencies or missing information, and support the close-out of design actions.
- Chair regional design knowledge-share sessions and technical discussions to drive alignment and best practice across teams.
- Support the tracking and approval of design deviations against baseline standards and provide feedback into the global design standards change process.
- Engage with consultants, contractors, vendors, and internal stakeholders to improve design management and delivery across CSA and MEPH disciplines.
- Represent the business in design-related forums, supplier discussions, and technical conversations with external partners.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in data center design, ideally within a multi-disciplinary design environment.
- Strong technical background in CSA and/or MEPH disciplines, with a solid understanding of design, construction, and commissioning interfaces.
- Experience supporting or delivering multiple large-scale developments, preferably in mission-critical or highly technical environments.
- Strong understanding of design governance, engineering standards, change control, and consultant or contractor interfaces.
- Confidence explaining and defending technical design decisions to customers, contractors, consultants, and senior stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, challenge constructively, and resolve competing priorities across cost, quality, risk, and schedule.
Skills
- Data center design
- Multi-disciplinary design
- CSA disciplines
- MEPH disciplines
- Design governance
- Engineering standards
- Change control
- Stakeholder management
- Technical communication
Location
- EMEA
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or equivalent relevant experience
- Chartered status would be an advantage
Benefits
- Development opportunities
- Supportive and inclusive environment
About the Company
- Digital Realty is the leading provider of carrier and cloud neutral data centre services by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions.
- PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx™) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges.
- Digital Realty has a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 28 countries on 6 continents.
- The company has 3,500+ colleagues around the world who work together to create life-changing solutions and connections.