Data Center Design Governance Lead

Workplace

• The position is on-site in Damascus Governorate, Syria.

Position Objective

Responsibilities

• Manage structured design reviews for each High-Level Design before procurement.
• Verify traceability to requirements and maintain independence from design production.
• Assess resilience, redundancy, maintainability, and single points of failure.
• Review critical power, cooling, heat rejection, equipment selection, and design PUE.
• Confirm Tier III or Tier IV compliance and applicability of TIA-942, EN 50600, and ASHRAE guidelines.
• Issue comments and NCRs, track responses, and verify closure.
• Support technical specifications, RFP preparation, and compliance-based bid evaluation.
• Review EPC detailed-design and IFC submittals against approved intent.
• Chair design-change and deviation reviews.
• Define acceptance criteria for L1-L5 commissioning and handover, including the L5 IST.
• Lead and guide design and review teams.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering.
• 10 to 12 years of data center or mission-critical facility design experience.
• 4 to 5 years in design review, design assurance, or owner’s-engineer roles.
• At least one Tier III or higher facility taken from concept through commissioning.
• Working knowledge of Uptime Institute tier topology, TIA-942, and EN 50600.
• Practical command of critical power and cooling MEP systems and NFPA, IEC, and IEEE standards.
• Uptime Institute ATD certification required or to be obtained within three months.
• Strong written and spoken English required; Arabic is an advantage.
• Awareness of the Syrian operating context and willingness to travel within Syria.

Preferred Credentials

• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline is an advantage.
• TIA-942 CTDC and BICSI DCDC certifications are strongly preferred.
• Chartered Engineer or Professional Engineer registration is strongly preferred.