Senior Director-Legal (Construction)
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DAMAC Digital is building hyperscale data centre infrastructure across multiple markets. The legal function to support it is being built now — and this is the lead seat. Senior front-end construction lawyer, Dubai-based, working across FIDIC, AIA, and YSE/KSE on major international projects.
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Overview
DAMAC Digital is building hyperscale data centre infrastructure across multiple markets.
The legal function to support it is being built now — and this is the lead seat.
Senior front-end construction lawyer, Dubai-based, working across FIDIC, AIA, and YSE/KSE on major international projects.
The Role
You will lead construction contract drafting and negotiation across DAMAC Digital's data centre programme — working within a specialist three-person legal team alongside supporting Legal Directors in the US and Finland.
Front-end contract work is the focus: risk allocation, standard form drafting, procurement documentation, and pre-contract negotiation.
What You Will Do
- Draft and negotiate construction contracts across international data centre projects
- Work across FIDIC, AIA, YSE/KSE, NEC, and bespoke forms
- Advise on EPC, design-build, and subcontract structures and risk allocation
- Review procurement documentation and tender conditions
- Coordinate with Legal Directors in US and Finland on cross-border matters
- Manage external counsel where local law input is required
What You Bring
- Common law qualification — NZ, Australia, USA, or Canada strongly preferred
- Senior front-end construction lawyer — drafting and negotiation, not disputes
- FIDIC essential; AIA and/or YSE/KSE a strong advantage
- International construction project experience — infrastructure, energy, industrial, or data centre
- 15+ years PQE; able to work autonomously and at pace
- Proactive, collaborative, commercially minded
- Dubai-based.
- Part of a newly formed specialist construction legal team within DAMAC Digital.
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