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Global Design & Planning Engineer
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Posted:
21 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
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Application Deadline:
18 October 2026
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1 Vacancy
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Job Summary
Description
Your role
- Own maintain and enforce global data center design standards ensuring consistency across regions while managing approved regional variations.
- Partner with regional engineering and leadership teams to ensure compliance with global design principles and best practices.
- Conduct design audits and governance reviews to drive standardization quality and continuous improvement across the portfolio.
- Lead capacity planning master planning and infrastructure expansion programs including budgeting and ROM cost estimation.
- Develop strategic growth plans by analyzing capacity trends and forecasting future business and infrastructure requirements.
- Direct data center modernization and regeneration initiatives delivering design improvements that enhance performance efficiency and reliability.
- Collaborate with Managing Directors and Portfolio Management teams to develop business cases expansion models cost analyses and investment recommendations.
- Lead engineering due diligence and asset integration activities for acquisitions ensuring seamless incorporation into existing operations and infrastructure.
- Drive the standardization of global operating models design processes reference architectures and engineering best practices.
- Own the Global Whitespace Design Engineering Guidelines including updates training documentation and the development of repeatable design and product delivery methodologies
What youll need
- Bachelors degree in Electrical Mechanical or related Engineering discipline with significant mission-critical industry experience; Engineering Management experience required and certifications in project management or data center design considered an advantage.
- Extensive engineering management experience within data centers mission-critical facilities and global engineering organizations.
- Strong expertise in capacity planning investment management infrastructure strategy and operational support.
- Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Skilled at gathering analyzing and converting ambiguous business requirements into practical engineering solutions.
- Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making capabilities with a data-driven approach to managing risk and priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously while working effectively under pressure and to tight deadlines.
- Strong commitment to engineering excellence governance standards and quality with exceptional attention to detail
Required Experience:
IC
About Company
With Digital Realty, you can leverage our full interconnection capabilities across our global ecosystem including data centers, connectivity and cloud services.
