Who we are:
Where performance meets sustainability, Digital Edge is a trusted and forward-looking data center platform company, established to transform digital infrastructure in Asia. Backed by Stonepeak, a leading alternative investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets, Digital Edge has in excess of US$1.6 billion in committed equity capital with investors including some of the world's largest institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds.
Digital Edge's vision is to be the leading provider of sustainable, AI and hyperscale-centric digital infrastructure in Asia. Our mission is to build the foundation for the world's digital future, helping organizations to grow sustainably and empowering populations they serve.
Founded in 2020, the company has grown rapidly across multiple markets in the region, and currently provides data center and fiber services across Japan, South Korea, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and China. The Company now owns and operates 31 data centers with over 1.4GW of secured IT power.
This role is an exciting opportunity to join our fast-growing team as we further expand our footprint across Asia.
Our values:
- Respect: We embrace diversity and collaboration.
- Innovation: We share ideas and solve problems.
- Strive: We are driven and determined.
- Excellence: We seek to deliver the best.
- Responsibility: We do what's right for our people and the planet.
What we need:
Digital Edge is seeking a highly experienced VP of Solutions Engineering to lead our regional solution engineering organization across APAC.
This role will be responsible for establishing a bestinclass, endtoend solutioning function that seamlessly integrates presales, technical architecture, solution governance, customer technical advocacy, and lifecycle continuity across hyperscale and enterprise customer journeys.
The ideal candidate is a strategic technical leader with deep data centre domain expertise, strong customer-facing acumen, and proven experience driving complex solutioning cycles across multimarket environments. This leader will be the technical face of Digital Edge, driving clarity, solution consistency, and customer confidence while safeguarding the company's standards, cost, and delivery feasibility.
This role will be based in Singapore, regotional travelling is expected.
Key responsibilities:
Organizational Leadership & Transformation
- Engage at VP/SVP/Csuite level with hyperscale and global cloud providers.
- Own the APAC technical solutioning strategy, aligned to Digital Edge's global platform operating model.
- Hold executive accountability for solution standards across all APAC and future expansion markets.
- Architect and deliver a multiyear transformation roadmap for Solutions Engineering across the region.
- Build and lead a highperformance regional team spanning discovery, solution design, technical negotiation, delivery oversight, and postsales engagement.
- Establish repeatable processes, tools, templates, and governance frameworks to support scale and consistency.
- Develop career pathways, training frameworks, and succession planning for a multimarket organization.
EndtoEnd Technical Leadership (Customer Lifecycle)
- Drive strong technical discovery and requirements capture for hyperscale and enterprise customers.
- Ensure deep understanding of customer infrastructure, operating models, sustainability goals, and growth roadmaps.
- Oversee delivery of technically robust, costoptimal, and competitive solutions across RFP and negotiated deals.
- Set standards for translating customer requirements into scalable architectures aligned with platform capabilities.
- Lead or support strategic technical negotiations, ensuring feasibility, margin integrity, and contractual alignment.
- Ensure accuracy and completeness of technical schedules and contract documentation.
Design, Delivery & Lifecycle Continuity
- Act as executive escalation point across engineering, construction, operations, and commercial teams.
- Serve as custodian of customer requirements through detailed design, delivery, commissioning, and RFS.
- Provide customerfacing technical continuity throughout construction and implementation phases.
- Oversee technical alignment during testing, commissioning, and service readiness.
- Enable repeatable, scalable solutions that support postRFS expansion across markets.
CrossFunctional Leadership & Governance
- Partner with Sales, Product, Engineering, D&C, Operations, Implementation, and Commercial teams across the full lifecycle.
- Serve as executive approver for solution architecture on large or strategic deals.
- Own final authority on solution exceptions, custom builds, and nonstandard designs.
- Lead continuous improvement across cost optimisation, efficiency, sustainability, and scalability.
Actively champion and implement the organization's policies on health & safety, environment, energy, quality, information security, and business continuity, ensuring adherence to incident reporting, legal, and regulatory requirements.
The successful candidate:
- 15+ years of experience in data centre engineering, solution engineering, technical presales, or infrastructure architecture.
- Strong background in data centre M&E, power systems, cooling design, connectivity, and capacity planning, redundancy design, and data center operational standards.
- Proven experience engaging with hyperscale cloud and large enterprise customers at senior technical levels.
- Demonstrated leadership experience transforming and scaling regional or multinational engineering organizations.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to simplify complex concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience supporting complex RFP/RFQ processes with strong commercial acumen.
- Familiarity with TIA942, Uptime Institute standards, ISO frameworks, and sustainability / energy optimization.
- Preferably with relevant technical certifications (e.g., CDCDP, CDCE, PMP, Uptime ATS/TOP)
Join us to shape the future of Digital Infrastructure in Asia! Apply now for a confidential career discussion.
