# Technical Director and Electrical Team Lead (Data Centre)

**Company**: AECOM
**Location**: Leeds
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

We are seeking an accomplished Technical Director to provide technical leadership across our expanding Data Centre practice. This is a strategic role for an industry expert with significant experience in the design and delivery of mission-critical facilities who can drive technical excellence, lead major client relationships, and help shape the growth of our data centre business across the UK and internationally.

**Technical & Project Leadership**

- Act as a technical authority across major hyperscale and colocation data centre projects.

- Lead the development of innovative engineering solutions that support resilience, operational efficiency, sustainability, and future scalability.

- Provide strategic technical oversight and governance throughout all project stages, ensuring consistent quality and compliance with industry standards.

- Lead complex feasibility studies, design reviews, technical due diligence exercises, and client advisory commissions.

- Oversee project delivery, commissioning strategies, and operational readiness activities, ensuring successful outcomes for clients and stakeholders.

**Client & Market Leadership**

- Serve as a trusted advisor to major global data centre clients, contractors, developers, investors, and operators.

- Build and maintain senior-level relationships across key client accounts, identifying opportunities for growth and long-term partnerships.

- Represent the business externally through industry networks, conferences, technical presentations, and thought leadership initiatives.

- Support bids, proposals, and strategic pursuits by providing technical leadership and market insight.

**Team & Business Growth**

- Lead, mentor, and develop multidisciplinary engineering teams, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and innovation.

- Champion knowledge sharing, professional development, and best practice across the wider Data Centre and Building Services teams.

- Support recruitment, succession planning, and capability development initiatives.

- Help shape the strategic direction of the Data Centre practice and contribute to long-term business planning and growth.

**Health, Safety & Quality**

- Promote a strong Safety, Health & Environmental culture across all projects and teams.

- Ensure compliance with relevant legislation, standards, and company procedures.

- Provide leadership in resolving complex engineering challenges while maintaining the highest levels of quality assurance.

**Collaboration**

- Work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated and coordinated design solutions.

- Support the adoption of emerging digital technologies, sustainable design approaches, and innovative engineering solutions within mission-critical environments.

- Travel nationally and occasionally internationally to project sites, client meetings, and offices as required.

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## Skills

### Required
- Electrical Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Building Services Engineering
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) status
- Data centre infrastructure
- Resilience strategies
- Sustainability objectives
- Operational requirements

### Nice to have
- Significant experience within the data centre sector
- Experience advising data centre operators, developers, investors, or major contractors
- Experience delivering large-scale, international or multidisciplinary projects
- Exposure to digital engineering, sustainable design methodologies, and emerging technologies within the built environment

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