Senior Electrical Director - Hyperscale Data Centers

GHD; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

GHD is seeking an experienced Electrical Technical Director to lead a portfolio of hyperscale, AI-driven data centre projects from our UAE offices. This senior role requires shaping electrical engineering strategy, mentoring engineers, and delivering technically excellent, sustainable solutions.

You will drive governance across global projects, develop reference designs, and collaborate with clients and stakeholders to win new opportunities in the rapidly expanding mission critical sector.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering or building services engineering.
• Chartered Engineer status (CEng, PE, RPEQ, or equivalent) preferred.
• Minimum 15 years of relevant engineering experience in mission critical and data centre environments.
• Proven track record leading design and delivery of hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, and AI-focused data centres.
• Extensive knowledge of data centre electrical infrastructure and resilience philosophies.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across international projects.
• Familiarity with ETAP/SKM and BIM delivery processes.
• Strong commercial awareness with client management and project pursuits.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership across multiple mission critical and data centre projects globally.
• Define and oversee electrical engineering strategies for hyperscale, colocation, enterprise and AI data centres.
• Lead development and review of electrical power architectures (HV/MV/LV, UPS, standby generation, BESS).
• Develop resilience and redundancy strategies (N+1, 2N, 4N3, concurrent maintainability).
• Guide high-density AI/GPU infrastructure power distribution and integration with liquid cooling.
• Lead electrical system studies and quality procedures; drive design assurance and standards.
• Act as senior technical authority; support client engagement and project teams.
• Develop global reference designs and modular data centre solutions; promote technical excellence.

Skills

Electrical leadership

Project governance

Data centre design

HV/MV/LV distribution

BESS knowledge

ETAP/SKM

Client engagement

Mentoring

Global delivery

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering

Chartered Engineer status

Tools

ETAP

SKM

BIM

EPMS/SCADA

Job description

GHD is seeking an experienced Electrical Technical Director to lead a portfolio of hyperscale, AI-driven data centre projects from our UAE offices. This senior role requires shaping electrical engineering strategy, mentoring engineers, and delivering technically excellent, sustainable solutions.

You will drive governance across global projects, develop reference designs, and collaborate with clients and stakeholders to win new opportunities in the rapidly expanding mission critical sector.