Critical Systems Associate Director
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About the Role
Cundall seeks an experienced data centre specialist to establish and grow their data centre capability in Dubai, serving the MENA region. The role combines technical leadership, business development, and team management.
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Responsibilities
- Establish and grow the data centre business unit in Dubai as a regional platform serving the MENA market
- Develop a clear regional growth plan, including target markets, priority clients, strategic partners, pipeline opportunities and sector positioning
- Lead work winning activity, including client mapping, opportunity development, bid strategy, proposal leadership, fee development and commercial negotiation
- Act as senior client facing representative for the data centre sector, building long term relationships with developers, operators, hyperscale clients, investors, contractors and delivery partners
- Lead multidisciplinary design delivery on data centre projects, ensuring solutions are technically robust, coordinated, buildable, resilient, sustainable and aligned with client requirements
- Own project delivery governance, including programme, resourcing, risk management, change control, commercial performance, reporting and stakeholder communication
- Implement and maintain rigorous QA/QC processes, including design reviews, technical approvals, interdisciplinary checks, lessons learned and compliance with relevant standards
- Recruit, mentor and develop engineers and technical specialists, creating a high performing team culture
Requirements
- Chartered Engineer or working towards equivalent professional recognition
- Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline
- Significant consultancy experience with proven track record in data centre, mission critical, high technology or similarly complex MEP led projects
- Demonstrable experience developing client relationships, identifying new opportunities, shaping winning proposals and converting prospects into live commissions
- Ability to lead and review design outputs, manage multidisciplinary coordination, chair project and design reviews
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The Team
- We are a global, independent, multi disciplinary consultancy delivering sustainable engineering and design solutions across the built environment.
- Our data centre team has been leading mission critical design since 2006, delivering over 2,000MW of capacity globally.
- Recognised as Data Centre Consultancy of the Year in 2025.
The Role
- This is a strategic leadership opportunity for an experienced, client focused data centre specialist to establish, develop and grow our data centre capability from Dubai, serving clients and projects across the wider MENA region.
- The successful candidate will combine sector credibility, technical leadership and commercial drive to build a sustainable regional business unit.
Key Responsibilities
- Establish and grow the data centre business unit in Dubai as a regional platform serving the MENA market.
- Develop a clear regional growth plan, including target markets, priority clients, strategic partners, pipeline opportunities and sector positioning.
- Lead work winning activity, including client mapping, opportunity development, bid strategy, proposal leadership, fee development and commercial negotiation.
- Act as a senior client facing representative for the data centre sector, building long term relationships.
- Lead multidisciplinary design delivery on data centre projects.
- Own project delivery governance, including programme, resourcing, risk management, change control, commercial performance, reporting and stakeholder communication.
- Implement and maintain rigorous QA/QC processes.
- Recruit, mentor and develop engineers and technical specialists.
The Skills
- Chartered Engineer or working towards equivalent professional recognition.
- Educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline.
- Significant consultancy experience with proven track record in data centre, mission critical, high technology or similarly complex MEP led projects.
- Demonstrable experience developing client relationships, identifying new opportunities, shaping winning proposals and converting prospects into live commissions.
- Ability to lead and review design outputs, manage multidisciplinary coordination, chair project and design reviews, oversee specifications and reports, and ensure QA/QC procedures are applied consistently.
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