Head of Data Center Design
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Head of Data Center Design shaping architecture, power, cooling, and reliability for a company building a 300 MW AI data center in Poland. Leading multidisciplinary design reviews and construction alignment.
Responsibilities:
- Own the overall technical design and architecture of the company's data centers
- Define and maintain the Basis of Design, including modular POD architecture, cooling strategy, power topology, fire suppression, and networking
- Set design standards for IT deployment, including rack layout, containerization, and CDU placement
- Lead design reviews and approve engineering drawings across electrical, mechanical, structural, fire, and networking disciplines
- Own PUE, capacity, and reliability targets at the design stage
- Coordinate with equipment and technology partners on specifications and integration requirements
- Work with implementation teams to ensure construction execution matches approved design intent
- Evaluate and approve design changes for technical impact, including cooling, power, capacity, and redundancy
- Lead site-selection technical criteria and feasibility studies covering power availability, grid connection, and cooling options
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience in data center design, or in critical infrastructure, industrial, or energy project design — data center experience is a plus but not required
- Ownership of, or significant contribution to, Basis of Design documentation for large-scale facilities
- 3+ years in a design leadership role
- Strong technical fluency in power topology and cooling strategy
- Working-level understanding of fire suppression and structural loading sufficient to coordinate across disciplines
- Track record of leading multidisciplinary design reviews and approving engineering drawings across trades
- English proficiency sufficient for international technical documentation and stakeholder communication
- Experience with modular/POD-based deployment architectures and high-density GPU/HPC compute environments is nice to have
- Experience with direct liquid cooling (DLC) systems is nice to have
- Tier III/IV certification (Uptime Institute), or direct experience with certification processes, is nice to have
- Experience evaluating site feasibility is nice to have
- Experience with NVIDIA GB200/GB300 or equivalent high-density GPU cluster infrastructure is nice to have
- Background spanning both design and construction execution phases is nice to have
- Experience with EU regulatory frameworks for power, environmental, and building compliance is nice to have
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