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About the Role

The Regional Due Diligence Lead (f/m/d) for EMEA will support pre-development technical due diligence and site feasibility efforts across the regional portfolio. This role assesses the technical and commercial viability of potential data centre developments, identifying site constraints, risks, costs, and development pathways to inform acquisition decisions and enable successful project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own regional due diligence, planning and permitting governance, sequencing and process, continuously improving due diligence and entitlement activities.
• Lead and coordinate technical due diligence, site feasibility, and development readiness activities for potential site acquisitions globally.
• Own the technical and commercial assessment of prospective sites, identifying development constraints, risks, opportunities, and costs.
• Assist the Acquisitions team by providing technical input for market evaluations.
• Review seller-provided materials and documentation for accuracy, completeness, development viability, and associated project risks.
• Develop and execute strategies for entitlements, permitting, and utility connections.
• Engage and support internal teams in managing land use attorneys, civil engineers, environmental, geotechnical, utility, and other specialist consultants.
• Collaborate with internal teams to consolidate technical inputs and establish comprehensive development schedules.
• Ensure due diligence deliverables align with internal development standards, commercial objectives, and long-term delivery requirements.
• Structure reports and present findings, risks, recommendations, and development strategies to senior leadership.
• Develop scalable due diligence processes, standards, and tools to support the growth of the global development pipeline.
• Act as the regional technical due diligence authority, consolidating specialist inputs and providing a clear recommendation on site viability, principal risks, development strategy, cost and schedule assumptions.

Requirements

• Significant senior-level experience in site development, design, construction, technical due diligence or development management, with a demonstrable track record of leading complex, multi-jurisdictional real estate or infrastructure assessments.
• Proven experience leading cross-functional due diligence and site feasibility efforts for large-scale real estate or infrastructure projects.
• Strong understanding of zoning, permitting, entitlements, utility coordination, environmental review processes, and site development regulations.
• Demonstrated experience developing entitlement, permitting, and utility strategies that enable successful project execution.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and acquisitions concurrently.
• Experience procuring and managing consultant scopes, schedules, budgets, and technical deliverables.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex technical and commercial findings clearly to executive stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across multidisciplinary global teams.
• Multi-jurisdictional planning and permitting environments and tracking of utility capacity, connection strategy and programme risks associated with permitting.
• Environmental, ground, flood, transport and infrastructure constraints.
• Provide risk-based recommendations for investment governance and consultant procurement and management across countries.
• Ability to travel across EMEA and to work across cultures, time zones and regulatory regimes.

Skills

• Data centre development
• Hyperscale infrastructure
• Land acquisition
• Entitlement
• Permitting frameworks
• Professional membership, chartership or certification (e.g., CEng, Eur Ing, RICS, CIOB, RIBA, PMI/PMP)

Location

• EMEA

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior-level

Education Level

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, architecture, construction management, real estate development or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Relevant postgraduate qualification is desirable.

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package
• Excellent benefits
• Environment that recognizes and rewards contributions
• Development opportunities

About the Company

• Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions.
• PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data centre 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 gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data centre footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

Equal Opportunity

• Safety isn't just a priority here at Digital Realty; it's critical to everything we do. Safeguarding lives, protecting assets, and securing data aren't just ideals - they're essential pillars of our commitment to excellence for our people, our partners and our customers. We have a culture of care where every member of Team Digital embraces a relentless pursuit of working safely across Digital Realty. Together we are Safely Powering Progress.