Data Center Designer

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

As a Senior Data Center Designer SME, you will be instrumental in providing technical expertise to internal team members and external clients, helping drive Arcadis’ data center work forward. You will be responsible for guiding and mentoring our in-house data center team by providing senior-level advice on infrastructure system selection, cooling strategies, market trends, specialty consulting, and client engagement.

As a Senior Data Center Designer SME, you will play a key role in coordinating activities across large-scale building and data center projects. Your expertise will help ensure smooth execution, high performance, resilience, and compliance, while supporting project teams with technical leadership and proactive problem-solving.

Role accountabilities:

• Support the design and delivery of infrastructure systems for data center and mission critical facilities
• Provide technical design input to clients and internal project teams
• Apply knowledge of industry standards, codes, and best practices relevant to data centers and mission critical environments
• Evaluate and guide teams on the pros and cons of various infrastructure systems, redundancy approaches, turn down ratios, energy efficiency strategies, and operational resiliency and redundancy
• Coordinate with other design and engineering disciplines, vendors, contractors, and client stakeholders
• Participate in key design discussions and help communicate design decisions to clients
• Contribute to all project phases, including Pursuit, Concept design, Detailed design, Construction administration, Commissioning, Closeout
• Support the preparation of proposals, particularly the infrastructure design approach and technical strategy
• Contribute to knowledge sharing, innovation, and continuous improvement within the design team
• Help develop technical documentation, reports, specifications, basis of design documents, and design packages
• Work collaboratively with colleagues across multiple offices and global teams
• Mentor junior staff and support team development where appropriate

Qualifications & Experience: