As a Data Center Design Manager you will be part of a global engineering leadership team, comprised of highly effective Architects, Structural, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, and Control Engineers. AWS drives the engineering on our capacity delivery projects. This unique vantage point allows the Design Managers to maintain a close connection with project details and drive project outcomes. You will have impact on the design direction and ability to improve design delivery for all APAC projects, while establishing design procedures and protocols for the development of future systems. This role is an opportunity to collaborate with many facets of the AWS organization, external engineering resources and regulatory agencies.
Key job responsibilities
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Leading a team of engineers in the design of data center critical infrastructure systems
- Facilitating weekly meetings with internal engineer resources, internal customers and external consultants to address design issues, meet design milestones and escalate as needed.
- Driving process improvements.
- Creating and tracking metrics related to cost, quality and duration of design as well as collecting data from construction and commissioning teams as designs are implemented.
- Establishing capital project design budgets and contributing to complex business cases for existing region and new region deployment.
- Collaborating with AWS finance teams to secure funding for projects.
- Working in partnership with AWS Engineering leads to schedule engineering resources and influence design changes based on internal customer needs.
- Partnering with internal customers to establish project scope, schedule and deliverables.
- Managing document controller's workflow and audit of deliverables
- Managing the interfaces, stakeholders coordination and have oversight on follow-through from due diligence to design, to construction to operations across project life cycle
- Driving permits approvals and interfacing with respective AHJ
Basic qualifications
- 6+ years of data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance experience
- 6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field
- Experience in project management or as a project lead including RFQ/RFP process, selecting engineering teams, developing budgets, coordinating multiple consultant teams and facilitating meetings
- Experience performing complex business case analysis to justify technical decisions and presenting the justification to management in a high-level review
- Experience developing solutions and executing plans on complex projects
Preferred qualifications
- Professional Engineering or Architectural License
- Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region
- Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production
- Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents
- Experience with AutoCAD, Revit, Bluebeam, and MS Office Suite
