Senior Data Center Designer SME

Job summary

The Senior Data Center Designer SME provides technical expertise and leadership for data center infrastructure projects, guiding teams through design, construction, and commissioning phases. They are responsible for mentoring junior staff and ensuring project execution aligns with industry standards, energy efficiency goals, and client requirements.

Job details

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Role description: As a Senior Data Center Designer SME, you will be instrumental in providing technical expertise to internal team members and external clients, helping drive Arcadis’ data center work forward. You will be responsible for guiding and mentoring our in-house data center team by providing senior-level advice on infrastructure system selection, cooling strategies, market trends, specialty consulting, and client engagement. As a Senior Data Center Designer SME, you will play a key role in coordinating activities across large-scale building and data center projects. Your expertise will help ensure smooth execution, high performance, resilience, and compliance, while supporting project teams with technical leadership and proactive problem-solving. Role accountabilities: * Support the design and delivery of infrastructure systems for data center and mission critical facilities * Provide technical design input to clients and internal project teams * Apply knowledge of industry standards, codes, and best practices relevant to data centers and mission critical environments * Evaluate and guide teams on the pros and cons of various infrastructure systems, redundancy approaches, turn down ratios, energy efficiency strategies, and operational resiliency and redundancy * Coordinate with other design and engineering disciplines, vendors, contractors, and client stakeholders * Participate in key design discussions and help communicate design decisions to clients * Contribute to all project phases, including Pursuit, Concept design, Detailed design, Construction administration, Commissioning, Closeout * Support the preparation of proposals, particularly the infrastructure design approach and technical strategy * Contribute to knowledge sharing, innovation, and continuous improvement within the design team * Help develop technical documentation, reports, specifications, basis of design documents, and design packages * Work collaboratively with colleagues across multiple offices and global teams * Mentor junior staff and support team development where appropriate Qualifications & Experience: * Bachelor’s or master’s degree in architecture, electrical, or mechanical engineering * Architectural or P. Eng Registration in Canada * 10+ years of relevant experience in infrastructure design for data centers, mission critical facilities, hyperscale, semiconductor, industrial, or similarly complex facilities. * Experience with codes and standards relevant to data center environments (ASHRAE, CSA, NEC/NFPA, Uptime, TIA942, etc.). * Strong communication and coordination skills with multidisciplinary teams and clients * Experience and passion for leadership and mentoring * Familiarity with redundancy strategies such as N, N+1, 2N, and concurrently maintainable system approaches * Experience with energy-efficient infrastructure solutions, sustainability goals, and optimization strategies * Construction administration and commissioning experience for mission critical projects Why Arcadis? We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy. Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women, minorities, people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by law. The salary range for this position is $106,000-$159,000. The base salary represents Arcadis’ hiring range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as location, skills, experience, and qualification for the role.

What you’ll do

The Senior Data Center Designer SME provides technical expertise and leadership for data center infrastructure projects, guiding teams through design, construction, and commissioning phases. They are responsible for mentoring junior staff and ensuring project execution aligns with industry standards, energy efficiency goals, and client requirements.

Requirements

Candidates must hold a bachelor's or master's degree in architecture or engineering and possess a professional registration in Canada. A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in mission-critical facility design and deep knowledge of industry codes and standards are required.

Listed skills

• Technical Documentation · Preferred
• Problem solving · Preferred
• Project management · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Data center design
• Infrastructure systems
• Cooling strategies
• Technical leadership
• Project management
• Mentoring
• Client engagement
• Energy efficiency
• Operational resiliency
• Construction administration
• Commissioning
• System redundancy
• Technical documentation
• Stakeholder coordination
• Problem-solving
• Semiconductors
• Technical Strategy
• Industry Standards
• Curiosity
• Resilience
• NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) Codes
• Technical Leadership
• Technical Design
• Electrical Engineering
• Communication
• Construction Management
• Consulting
• Continuous Improvement Process
• Data Centers
• Engineering Design Process
• Leadership
• Innovation
• Problem Solving
• Mechanical Engineering
• Market Trend
• Mentorship
• Sustainable Design
• Team Building
• Technical Documentation
• Coordinating

Job areas

• Engineering
• Construction
• Consulting
• Technology
• Energy
• Data Center Manager
• Data Center Technician / Engineer
• Database Designers and Administrators
• Computer Occupations, All Other

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