Senior Data Center Design Manager, Data Center Design Engineerin

As a Senior Data Center Design Manager, you will be a key member of a high-performing global design engineering leadership team, comprising world-class Architects, Structural, Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Controls, ICT, Fire, Acoustics, Water, and Security Engineers. You will own the design direction, design quality, and design delivery for a portfolio of mission-critical data center projects across the APAC region.

This is a deeply design-centric role. You will set the vision for complex, multi-discipline infrastructure systems driving design from concept through detailed engineering, construction documentation, and commissioning validation. You will define and evolve regional design standards, champion design automation and tooling innovation, and embed continuous improvement into every phase of the design lifecycle. Your decisions will directly shape how AWS builds its next generation of data centers in APAC.

This role demands close collaboration across multiple facets of the AWS design engineering organisation, external engineering consultancies, regulatory bodies, and Australian government agencies.

This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain an Australian Government security clearance. Candidates must be Australian citizens or eligible to obtain the required clearance as a condition of employment.

Key job responsibilities Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Leading a multidisciplinary team of engineers through all phases of data center critical infrastructure design from concept through detailed engineering, construction documentation, and commissioning validation.

Owning end-to-end design direction for power, cooling, controls, physical security, and structural systems setting the architectural vision and ensuring designs meet AWS performance, reliability, and cost targets.

Establishing regional design standards, basis-of-design documents, and design quality frameworks that drive consistency and scalability across APAC projects.

Leading design reviews from schematic through 100% construction documentation, ensuring technical rigour, code compliance, and alignment with AWS global design principles.

Driving design innovation, automation, and tooling initiatives that reduce cycle time, minimise rework, and improve documentation quality.

Tracking design-specific KPIs, cycle time, design maturity, RFI rates, and first-pass quality integrating construction and commissioning feedback to close the as-designed to as-built loop.

Driving design risk identification, constructability reviews, and value engineering across the region.

Establishing design budgets, contributing to business cases, and partnering with finance, engineering leads, and internal customers to optimise resources and define deliverables.

Driving permit approvals and interfacing with AHJ, Australian regulators, and government agencies.

A day in the life As a Senior Design Manager, your day is anchored in design. You might start with a technical design review of a new cooling topology, then shift to a cross-discipline coordination meeting resolving interface clashes between electrical and mechanical systems.

After lunch, you’re reviewing design automation outputs, benchmarking design cycle metrics against regional targets, and coaching a design engineer on construction documentation standards. Later, you brief leadership on design program status, or drive a constructability risk workshop with external consultants.

Every day, you’re shaping how AWS designs and delivers its most critical infrastructure in APAC.

6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field
• Knowledge of critical data center mechanical and electrical equipment
• 6+ years of project management or project lead work including RFQ/RFP process, selecting engineering teams, developing budgets, coordinating multiple consultant teams and facilitating meetings experience
• Experience in industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineering or Architectural License
• Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region
• Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and into deployment or mass production
• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents