Data Center Delivery Lead
Project & Program ManagementPosted 18 May 2026
Advertised as “Data Centre Delivery Lead”
Posted 18 May 2026
Advertised as “Data Centre Delivery Lead”
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Join our dynamic and multidisciplinary team working with Data Centre clients across both Hyperscale and Colocation and also Enterprise on projects across the UK, Europe and globally. These projects are led from our specialist data centre team based in the UK in conjunction with our local teams across Europe who ensure localisation and permitting delivery, but also other global design teams providing resource and capability to the projects.
We are seeking a senior leader with a strong technical background in the Data Centre sector to act as Delivery Lead at Director level, combining client leadership, large‑scale team leadership and multi‑regional delivery accountability.
In this role, you will have overall responsibility for the design leadership and delivery of multiple Data Centre programmes, ensuring consistently high standards of technical quality, commercial performance and client satisfaction across a global portfolio.
You’ll drive technical excellence, manage delivery teams, and ensure projects are completed on time, on budget, and to the highest standard.
You’ll have the platform to influence, lead and shape the future of AECOM’s data centre delivery capability at a senior level.
The location of the role is flexible within the UK / Ireland however it will be important that it is local to one of our hubs of expertise – London, Dublin, Manchester and the role will require travel within the UK&I and Europe.
Ideally you will live locally to an office or be willing to relocate.
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Who We’re Looking For:
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About AECOM
AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.
Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity
You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.
You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.
AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.
Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition, who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address ReasonableAccommodationsUKI@aecom.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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