Senior Data Centre Strategy & Infrastructure Lead

Parsons; Dubai; On-site; AED 335,000 - 502,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons Corporation in Dubai seeks a Senior Specialist - Data Centre Infrastructure to advise on resilient data centre planning, critical power and cooling systems, ICT infrastructure, and scalability from strategy through commissioning and operations.

The role requires 10+ years in data centres, broad lifecycle experience, and ability to coordinate across electrical, mechanical, ICT, architecture, security, sustainability, and operations teams. Knowledge of AI/HPC infra is valued.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant engineering discipline and 10+ years in data centres or mission-critical environments.
• Experience across lifecycle stages from strategy to commissioning and operations.
• Strong knowledge of data centre standards and regulatory guidance.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical advice to clients planning, expanding, modernising, or operating data centre infrastructure.
• Develop data centre strategies, roadmaps, business cases, and implementation programmes.
• Act as a subject matter expert for mission-critical data centre and digital infrastructure assignments.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams through strategy, design, delivery, commissioning and readiness stages.
• Advise on electrical power, cooling, ICT, network, compute, storage, security, and operations.
• Assess capacity, availability, resilience and infrastructure needs from workload forecasts.
• Review architecture and hosting strategies to shape facility design and operating models.
• Support scalable infrastructure for enterprise, cloud, colocation, hyperscale, AI, HPC and edge environments.
• Ensure designs align with international standards, quality and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Data centre infrastructure

Data centre strategy

Digital infrastructure

Mission-critical facilities

Data centre lifecycle planning

Electrical infrastructure

Critical power systems

Cooling systems

ICT infrastructure

Network infrastructure

Cloud infrastructure

Compute platforms

Storage platforms

Capacity planning

Resilience planning

Availability engineering

Business continuity

Operational performance

Data centre commissioning

Technical assurance

Infrastructure roadmaps

Technical advisory

Hyperscale data centres

Colocation data centres

Enterprise data centres

Edge data centres

AI infrastructure

High-performance computing

Liquid cooling

Energy storage

Microgrids

Energy efficiency

Carbon reduction

Data centre sustainability

Cybersecurity

Uptime Institute

TIA-942

EN 50600

BICSI 002

ASHRAE

Technical proposals

Client advisory

Multidisciplinary coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Job description

Parsons Corporation in Dubai seeks a Senior Specialist - Data Centre Infrastructure to advise on resilient data centre planning, critical power and cooling systems, ICT infrastructure, and scalability from strategy through commissioning and operations.

The role requires 10+ years in data centres, broad lifecycle experience, and ability to coordinate across electrical, mechanical, ICT, architecture, security, sustainability, and operations teams. Knowledge of AI/HPC infra is valued.