Head Data Center
Role Overview
The role leads and grows a Data Center EPC business, drives business growth, supports opportunities and bids, provides technical leadership, and ensures successful project delivery.
The ideal candidate combines technical expertise, EPC and bidding experience, commercial understanding, client management, and team leadership.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
The role leads and grows a Data Center EPC business, drives business growth, supports opportunities and bids, provides technical leadership, and ensures successful project delivery.
The ideal candidate combines technical expertise, EPC and bidding experience, commercial understanding, client management, and team leadership.
Business Growth and Bidding
- Lead the Data Center EPC business line, including strategy, growth plans, and business targets.
- Develop opportunities and relationships with clients, OEMs, technology vendors, consultants, and delivery partners.
- Coordinate with sales, bidding, and technical teams and participate in client meetings, presentations, and negotiations.
- Support tendering, estimation, value engineering, vendor evaluation, and equipment selection.
Technical Leadership
- Review and approve solutions covering power, cooling, BMS/DCIM, ICT/ELV, and control systems.
- Conduct technical due diligence, feasibility assessments, and constructability reviews during pre-bid stages.
- Maintain technical specifications, design templates, best practices, BOQs, material specifications, and technical submittals.
- Provide commercial and technical support for contract scope, risks, assumptions, and exclusions.
Project Delivery and Team
- Support project execution within budget, schedule, quality, and safety requirements.
- Ensure quality and commissioning requirements are incorporated into delivery.
- Coordinate Electrical, Mechanical, Civil/Structural, and IT Infrastructure teams for integrated solutions.
- Lead, mentor, and develop the Data Center technical team.
Experience and Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, or a closely related discipline is required.
- The role requires 10–15 years of total experience, preferably in EPC or design-build environments.
- Strong data center project experience is highly preferred.
- Strong experience in tendering, estimation, value engineering, contract risk management, client management, and multidisciplinary coordination is required.
Technical Knowledge
- Required knowledge includes power infrastructure, cooling systems, ICT/ELV, BMS/DCIM, controls, reliability and availability concepts, and commissioning readiness.
- Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills are required.
Preferred Certifications
- PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, NEBOSH IGC, and Certified Data Centre Professional certifications are preferred.
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