NTT Global Data Centers
Senior Design Solution Engineer (m/f/d)
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Senior Design Solution Engineer (Mechanical Discipline) – EMEA
About the Role
NTT is looking for a Senior Design Solution Engineer (Mechanical Discipline) to take the lead in crafting high-quality, accurate, and tenderable mechanical scopes of work for data centre fit-out opportunities across the EMEA region. You will opportunity to base the role in one of these locations:
- London
- Amsterdam
- Frankfurt
- Berlin
This role involves inputting on regional projects, including upgrades and fit-outs, as well as collaborating on occasional global initiatives, such as out-of-region opportunities or peer reviews with NTT's colleagues worldwide.
Your responsibilities will centre around driving a multi-disciplinary design process, including:
- Managing interactions with external design vendors
- Consulting with internal stakeholders from Local & Global Technical Operations and Design teams
- Ensuring best-in-class solutions are delivered in line with RIBA Stage 2 (30% level plans)
You will also help establish and promote best-practice processes in design, engineering, and broader project delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Design & Scope Development
- Review intake forms and scoping materials created by Solution Engineers, then produce a tenderable end-to-end scope of work covering:
- Site/base-build modifications
- Commissioning outputs
- Client-specific requirements
- Infrastructure capacity assessments
Stakeholder & Technical Coordination
- Lead technical reviews, ensuring alignment and sign-off from internal teams:
- Local Operations & Engineering teams
- Global/Regional teams
- Other specialised stakeholders
- Conduct capacity checks to validate hardware or suggest infrastructure upgrades (e.g., M&E systems).
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Project Delivery & Performance Management
- Support cost and schedule creation for design activities.
- Steer external partners to meet development targets focusing on quality, accuracy, and timeline KPIs.
Field & Design Oversight
- Conduct site surveys (or coordinate subcontractors) across EMEA to assess design feasibility.
- Participate in design reviews to ensure adherence to:
- Internal design standards
- Local regulatory/compliance requirements
- Project objectives.
Systemic & Strategic Contributions
- Monitor requirements changes and risk assessments, pushing back on issues and guiding application of:
- Power systems
- Cooling infrastructure (e.g., ancillary services: security, monitoring, metering, fire safety)
- CFD models (up to RIBA Stage 2/30% plans)
- Support lessons-learned processes, ensuring knowledge transfer post-RFS for future designs.
Continuous Improvement & Risk Management
- Migrate, document, and validate scope changes through the change management system.
- Assess & mitigate both design risks and project risks.
Knowledge & Abilities
Technical & Professional
- Academic Requirement: University degree (Mechanical, Electrical, or equivalent).
- Technical Experience:
- Proven expertise in mechanical design for mission-critical data centres (or similar critical M&E-led industries, e.g., semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, energy).
- Experience in whitespace fit-outs, specifically in solutioning and design phases.
- Familiarity with liquid cooling systems in data centre environments.
- Experience in RIBA Stage 2 designs and working in BIM software (e.g., AutoCAD).
- Bonus: Knowledge of CFD modeling.
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Multidisciplinary & International Work
- Experience collaborating in co-cursional teams, preferably in a leadership role.
- Cross-border experience in:
- Structurally operating within multi-national consultant/contractor/operator environments.
- Working on projects outside your home market.
- Adaptability to considerably diverse cultures and time zones.
Process & Innovation Drivers
- Contribute to developing best-practice tools, methodologies, and process documentation.
- Embrace innovative design approaches that enhance:
- Reliability, speed of deployment, operationally ease
- Sustainability (aligned with NTT's SDGs).
Soft Skills & Cultural Fit
- Collaboration: Ability to coaching, mentoring, and inspiring cross-functional, multinational teams.
- Mentality: Start-up/ramp-up mindset, proactively improving structures and operating culture.
- Stakeholder Management: Strong listening, relationship-building skills to align on met expectations.
- Communication: Excellent ability to communicate written and orally in English. Bonus points for German fluency.
About NTT
As the third-largest data centre provider in the world, we steward 150+ centres across 20+ regions, serving local-to-global business resilience needs.
Our goal is to turbocharge digital journeys for each of our clients, through:
✔️ Build and adopt AI-ready data infrastructure seamlessly, ✔️ Deliver trusted tailored solutions for every customer size and ambition, ✔️ Connect operations to your global presence, enabling expansion, scalability, and transformation.
Learn more about **data centre technologies, cross-discipline service models and our global insights at [website URL].
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