Consultant & Stakeholder Management

• Recommend, appoint, and manage external design consultants, engineers, and architects
• Act as the key interface between:
  • CTO
  • Internal teams
  • External partners
• Work with procurement to ensure:
  • Effective procurement of design activities
  • Best-value contract awards
• Support budgeting for design activities

Program & Delivery Management

• Manage design processes and timelines to program, ensuring:
  • Timely delivery aligned with wider project schedules
  • Clear audit trails and approval processes
• Maintain robust documentation, approvals, and governance trails
• Define project design scope to ensure:
  • Precise, complete, and clear allocation of design-related responsibilities
• Travel to project sites as needed to:
  • Oversee design implementation
  • Facilitate stakeholder engagement

What We’re Looking For

Minimum 10+ years in:

• Data centre design, engineering, or technical delivery (contractor, client, or consultant side)

• Experience managing multidisciplinary design teams across multiple projects

• Strong engineering mindset with:

  • Ability to think logically, scientifically, and mathematically
  • Solid knowledge of:
    • Electrical and mechanical systems
    • Architectural considerations
    • Related engineering fields

• Familiarity with key design tools (e.g., ETAP, Ansys, 6Sigma, Revit)

• Ability to handle complex technical queries and interface across multiple stakeholders, including:

  • CTO
  • Operations
  • Contractors

• Proven ability to build and manage relationships with:

  • External design consultants
  • Engineering firms

• Strong grasp of:

  • UK statutory and regulatory requirements (European familiarity is a plus)

• Broad spectrum experience across:

  • Enterprise
  • Co-location
  • Build-to-suit environments (preferred)

• Degree-level education in:

  • Engineering
  • Architecture

• CEng or equivalent (preferred)

• Fluent or native English required

• Bilingual proficiency (e.g., German or French) is an advantage

Why Join Us?

✅ High-growth European platform

• Be part of an expanding team with opportunities to grow laterally and vertically at a pivotal stage of expansion.

✅ Impactful role

• Help shape design management policies and processes for a rapidly scaling data center portfolio.

✅ Cutting-edge technology

• Work and lead on:
  • AI-driven projects
  • Liquid chip cooling solutions
  • Other innovative, high-resolution designs.

✅ Strategic influence

• Work directly with senior leadership, using design expertise to:
  • Drive project efficiencies
  • Ensure scalability.

✅ Hybrid work flexibility

• Work across offices in:
  • UK
  • Netherlands
  • France
  • Germany
• Regular travel to project sites.

Are you ready to contribute to the next evolution of edge data centers?

If you have the right experience and are excited about this opportunity, we’d love to hear from you!

🔗 Apply now to be part of our journey toward a more connected, efficient, and sustainable digital future.

Additional Notes

Background Check & Screening

All selected candidates will undergo a background check to:

• Ensure a safe workplace
• Protect company assets
• Comply with regulations.

Diversity & Inclusion Statement

nLighten is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds.

Even if you don’t meet every requirement listed, we welcome your application. We particularly encourage:

• Women
• Individuals from underrepresented groups to apply.