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About the Role

The Director, Engineering is responsible for the strategic leadership, planning, and execution of all engineering and facilities operations in the data centre. This role ensures the availability, reliability, and efficiency of critical infrastructure systems, including electrical, mechanical, and building management systems, while driving innovation and operational excellence. The Director will represent STACK at technical meetings with consultants, contractors, and vendors and lead multidisciplinary engineering teams to maintain uptime, meet customer SLA commitments, and support business growth.

Responsibilities

Bring innovative thinking to achieve cost reduction, flexibility, speed and energy efficiency.
Liaise with customers on technical matters to develop solutions.
Develop sales engineering information packs for customer engineering reviews.
Drive technical input to consultant designs to meet customer needs.
Develop concept designs for early customer discussions and consultant briefing.
Develop masterplanning concepts for new sites, including IT capacity yield and PUE estimations.
Develop long lead equipment technical documentation and review vendor proposals.
Drive updates to internal BOD drawings, schematics and specifications.
Steer consultants using technical expertise to achieve design, program, or commercial outcomes.
Review consultant milestone designs against STACK BOD, briefing documents and customer requirements.
Reduce construction cost by identifying and removing over-engineering or conservatism.
Manage a small team whose responsibilities are aligned with your own.
Research new engineering technologies and trends in the data centre market and power industry.
Provide technical support to onsite incidents from time to time.
Assist in design management duties during periods of need.
Engage with other stakeholders in the business to understand their needs and drivers.
Review customer designs and engineering requirements with VP, Engineering (APAC).
Review procurement initiatives including vendor relationships, technical specifications and keeping up to date with new technology in the market with VP, Engineering (APAC).
Work on cost saving opportunities initiatives across projects in Japan with VP, Engineering (APAC).
Ensure lessons learned are reviewed at the end of each project and feedback into next phases of design and regional basis of design.
Lead, coach and engage team members to maximize their performance and potential.
Be passionate about the data center industry and be an innovator, always looking to bring the forefront of technology into our projects to achieve and exceed our sustainability, safety & efficiency goals.
Be safety focused at all times, work collaboratively with STACK Safety Leadership, embody and lead by example our in Safety Best Practices and Conduct.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Engineering.
At least 10 years of experience in construction and/or engineering development, especially in construction project delivery, project controls, risk management, contract administration.
Data centre experience including detailed knowledge and understanding of data centre design, engineering principals and best practice.
Technical skills to include 3D Design Tools, BIM process & methodology, 4D/5D design principals.
Strategic thinking with operational execution focus.
Strong decision-making and problem-solving skills.
Stakeholder and client management skills.
Leadership and team development in high-performance environments.
Continuous improvement and risk management mindset.
Strong presentation and communication skills.
Japanese (native) language proficiency.
English (fluent) language proficiency.
Ability to juggle multiple high-level priorities with competing timelines.
Ability to welcome a new, urgent challenge with ease.
Cultural sensitivity and enjoyment of working with a diverse group of individuals from multiple regions.
Meticulous attention to detail.
Collaborative approach, enjoying working with others to solve problems.
Ability to shift from being a leader to a contributor when needed.
Ability to think five steps ahead and see issues from multiple angles.
Ability to be a problem preventer, not just a problem solver.

Skills

3D Design Tools
BIM process & methodology
4D/5D design principals
Strategic thinking
Operational execution
Decision-making
Problem-solving
Stakeholder management
Client management
Leadership
Team development
Continuous improvement
Risk management
Presentation skills
Communication skills

Location

APAC

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director
10+ years

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent

Benefits

Competitive compensation package
Strong benefits

About the Company

STACK Infrastructure builds, owns, and operates hyperscale and colocation data centers that power the world’s most ambitious technology companies.
With a rapidly expanding footprint across APAC, STACK combines deep development expertise, flexible capital, and operational discipline to deliver critical digital infrastructure at scale.
Our clients include the largest hyperscale cloud platforms.
We are building a regional platform defined by speed of delivery, power reliability, and long-term partnership — and we are assembling the team to lead that effort.

Equal Opportunity

STACK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. ALL qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.