Senior Specialist - Data Centre Infrastructure
Parsons
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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
Education
Job description
Senior Specialist - Data Centre Infrastructure Job Snapshot Role: Senior Specialist - Data Centre Infrastructure Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates Industry: I T and Services Function: Information Technology Experience: Minimum 10 years Job Type: Full-time
Senior Specialist - Data Centre Infrastructure in Dubai, United Arab Emirates is a senior I T and Services opportunity supporting complex data centre and digital infrastructure developments from early strategy through design, commissioning, and operations. Parsons is hiring an experienced technical specialist to advise clients on resilient data centre planning, critical power and cooling systems, ICT infrastructure, scalability, sustainability, operational performance, and emerging technologies including AI and high-performance computing.
Job Details Country: United Arab Emirates City: Dubai Industry: I T and Services Function: Information Technology Salary: 30000-45000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer. Gender: Any Candidate Nationality: Any Job Type: Full-time
The Senior Specialist - Data Centre Infrastructure will act as a technical authority across the complete lifecycle of mission-critical digital infrastructure. The role combines strategic advisory work with engineering knowledge, helping clients translate business requirements, workload forecasts, hosting strategies, resilience targets, and sustainability objectives into practical data centre programmes. The specialist will work across electrical, mechanical, ICT, architecture, security, sustainability, and operational disciplines. By reviewing strategies, designs, technology choices, and performance requirements, the position will help clients develop facilities capable of supporting demanding cloud, enterprise, colocation, AI, HPC, and edge computing workloads while maintaining availability and operational continuity.
- Provide senior technical advice to clients planning, expanding, modernising, or operating data centre infrastructure.
- Support development of data centre strategies, technical concepts, business cases, infrastructure roadmaps, and implementation programmes.
- Act as a subject matter expert for mission-critical data centre and wider digital infrastructure assignments.
- Guide multidisciplinary teams through strategy, planning, design, delivery, commissioning, and operational readiness stages.
- Advise on resilient electrical power, cooling, ICT, network, compute, storage, security, and operational infrastructure.
- Evaluate business requirements and workload forecasts to determine capacity, availability, resilience, and infrastructure needs.
- Assess how application architecture and data hosting strategies influence facility design and operating models.
- Support development of scalable infrastructure suitable for enterprise, cloud, colocation, hyperscale, AI, HPC, and edge environments.
- Review technical studies, strategies, engineering outputs, concepts, and designs for quality and technical suitability.
- Apply relevant international standards, regulatory requirements, and recognised data centre industry frameworks.
- Advise clients on availability, redundancy, business continuity, maintainability, and operational performance requirements.
- Incorporate sustainability objectives including energy efficiency, carbon reduction, efficient cooling, and responsible infrastructure planning.
- Evaluate emerging technologies such as liquid cooling, AI infrastructure, high-performance computing, energy storage, and microgrids.
- Coordinate technical considerations across electrical, mechanical, ICT, architectural, cybersecurity, sustainability, and operational disciplines.
- Support commissioning and operational readiness requirements for mission-critical facilities.
- Contribute to client meetings, technical workshops, executive presentations, and strategic advisory engagements.
- Assist with identification of new opportunities and preparation of technical proposals for data centre assignments.
- Contribute technical expertise to Parsons ' market positioning and expansion of its global data centre capabilities.
- Maintain awareness of evolving data centre technologies, operating models, industry standards, and infrastructure trends.
Candidates should hold a Bachelor 's degree from an accredited university in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Building Services Engineering, ICT, Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Engineering, Data Centre Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
More than 10 years of professional experience is expected within data centres, digital infrastructure, technology infrastructure, or closely related mission-critical environments.
The position requires broad lifecycle experience rather than expertise limited to one design discipline.
Suitable candidates should understand how strategic requirements evolve into engineering solutions, construction programmes, commissioning activities, and operational infrastructure.
Strong candidates will demonstrate experience involving:
- Data centre strategy and master planning
- Mission-critical infrastructure design
- Electrical power and resilience systems
- Cooling infrastructure
- Network and cloud environments
- Compute and storage platforms
- Cybersecurity considerations
- Capacity and scalability planning
- Business continuity
- Commissioning and operational readiness
- AI and HPC infrastructure
- Energy efficiency and carbon reduction
Experience with hyperscale, cloud, colocation, enterprise, AI, or edge data centres is highly relevant.
Knowledge of Uptime Institute requirements, TIA-942, EN 50600, BICSI 002, ASHRAE, and related international guidance is advantageous.
A Chartered Engineer designation or equivalent professional accreditation would strengthen the profile.
Experience advising on national, regional, campus-scale, or portfolio-wide data centre strategies is also valuable.
- 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
- HPC workloads
- 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
This position offers the opportunity to influence major digital infrastructure developments in Dubai while working across strategy, engineering, technology, sustainability, and mission-critical operations. The scope extends beyond individual facilities, creating exposure to large-scale data centre programmes, portfolio strategies, hyperscale environments, cloud infrastructure, and emerging AI computing requirements. Rapid growth in cloud services, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing, and regional digital transformation is increasing the importance of resilient and energy-efficient data centre infrastructure. For an experienced specialist, the role provides a strong platform to expand strategic advisory expertise while contributing to technically demanding developments with long-term digital significance.
Parsons Corporation provides engineering, technology, infrastructure, and program management expertise for complex developments worldwide. Its multidisciplinary teams support digital and mission-critical infrastructure through strategic planning, engineering advisory, technical assurance, sustainability expertise, and integrated project delivery.
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