Data Center Facility Architect

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Develop high-level data center and disaster recovery architectures aligned with business and technology requirements.
• Define capacity requirements covering space planning, rack density, power distribution, cooling systems, and supporting infrastructure.
• Assess future infrastructure requirements for compute, GPU, storage, and network growth.
• Define resiliency, redundancy, availability, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Evaluate architectural options and provide recommendations based on scalability, efficiency, resilience, and cost.
• Review technical designs, engineering documentation, and vendor proposals.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, facilities, electrical, mechanical, and operations teams.
• Develop architecture standards, capacity models, technical requirements, and design recommendations.
• Support planning and decision-making for mission-critical data center environments.

Required Experience

• 10+ years of experience in Data Center Architecture, Data Center Engineering, Critical Facility Design, or related disciplines.
• Proven experience with large-scale and high-density data center environments.
• Strong expertise in data center capacity planning, power and cooling systems, rack density planning, and space optimization.
• Strong expertise in resiliency and redundancy design, disaster recovery architecture, and high availability environments.
• Experience working with data center operators, engineering consultants, design firms, OEMs, infrastructure vendors, and specialist contractors.
• Strong understanding of critical facility operations and infrastructure lifecycle planning.
• Excellent stakeholder management and technical communication skills.

Preferred Experience

• Experience supporting AI, HPC, cloud, or enterprise-scale technology environments.
• Experience with Tier III and Tier IV data center environments.
• Exposure to hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, or government data center projects.
• Knowledge of sustainable data center design and energy-efficient infrastructure solutions.
• Experience implementing LEED-certified facility standards and sustainability initiatives.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Mandatory: Accredited Tier Designer (ATD).
• Mandatory: Accredited Tier Specialist (ATS).
• Mandatory: BICSI Certification.
• Preferred: Data Center Design Consultant (DCDC).
• Preferred: Certified Data Centre Expert (CDCE).
• Preferred: Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP).

Contract Duration

• Contract duration: 12 months, extendable.