Data Center Facility Architect

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Develop high-level data center and disaster recovery architectures aligned with business and technology requirements.
• Define capacity requirements for 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 and Skills

• Proven experience of 10+ years with large-scale and high-density data center environments.
• Strong understanding of critical facility operations and infrastructure lifecycle planning.
• Excellent stakeholder management and technical communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• 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.

Work Environment

• This role is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and involves working on large-scale data center environments and critical infrastructure projects as part of a significant technology and infrastructure program.