volta - Senior Director Infrastructure Engineering

• › Lead, develop and grow a team of infrastructure engineering SMEs across architecture, electrical, mechanical, cooling, structural, civil, controls and network infrastructure disciplines, building the capability to support a fast growing global pipeline • › Develop and deploy Volta's engineering design standards and specifications for AI factories, making sure they are applied consistently across every project and region • › Work with peers in the Design organisation to provide engineering input into Volta's Reference Design for AI factory infrastructure, balancing performance, cost, speed of delivery and scalability • › Support live projects with engineering expertise from concept through detailed design, construction and commissioning, resolving technical issues quickly so delivery is never held up • › Partner with the CTO and CPO organisations to align facility design with compute, rack and network requirements, enabling consistent turn up of compute across the portfolio • › Track the evolution of AI hardware, including rack densities, liquid cooling and power architectures, and translate it into design standards that keep Volta's AI factories ready for next generation compute • › Own engineering governance, including design reviews, technical assurance and design authority for any departure from standard • › Work with Procurement to standardise specifications for long lead equipment, enabling framework agreements, prefabrication and modular delivery at scale • › Champion safety in design, reliability, maintainability and energy and water efficiency, working with Operations to design for how our facilities will be run • › Embed lessons learned from delivery and operations back into the standards, so every AI factory builds faster, safer and more efficiently than the last • › Provide engineering status, risk and decision reporting to the VP, Development and Design and the executive team • › A degree in electrical, mechanical, civil or building services engineering, with chartered or professional engineer status (for example CEng or PE) preferred • › Significant experience in data centre or mission critical infrastructure engineering, including senior leadership of multidisciplinary engineering teams • › Deep technical expertise in at least one core discipline, such as power distribution or cooling, and a strong working knowledge across all infrastructure disciplines • › A track record developing and deploying design standards, reference designs or basis of design documents for a hyperscale, colocation or large scale data centre developer • › Hands on experience with high density and liquid cooled environments for AI and HPC workloads, and an understanding of how GPU cluster requirements drive facility design • › Strong commercial judgement, balancing capex, schedule, reliability and operability in design decisions • › Confident executive level communication, able to explain complex technical trade offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders • › A collaborative leadership style that builds trust with peers across partner teams, and the conviction to hold the line on standards • › Exposure to both North American and European projects, or to utility scale power, onsite generation or energy storage, would be an advantage