Design Manager

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Soben - part of Accenture seeks a Design Manager to lead multi-disciplinary teams delivering robust designs for hyperscale, enterprise and colocation data-centre projects. You will oversee the full design cycle from concept to construction support, coordinating architecture, MEP, environmental and digital streams.

You will shape briefs with clients, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive energy efficiency through innovative, modular approaches while aligning with international standards.

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualifications in engineering, architecture or related discipline.
• Chartered status desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead design stages across architecture, MEP, environmental, digital systems and advisory streams.
• Ensure integrated solutions for energy management, water, sustainability and resilience.
• Collaborate with clients to shape briefs, project origination, and feasibility alignment.
• Steer compliance with UK and international standards and project readiness.
• Support modular and prefabricated design approaches to accelerate delivery.
• Coordinate planning submissions and interface with environmental and grid stakeholders.

Skills

Design management

Coordination

UK market awareness

Regulatory navigation

Communication

Education

Engineering or Architecture degree

Chartered status desirable

Job description

Grow Your Career with Us

At Soben - part of Accenture - we believe our greatest strength is our people. Your growth is central to our success, and we’re committed to helping you build a career you’re proud of. Whether it’s through training, mentoring, or taking on new challenges, every step you take is an opportunity to develop your skills, broaden your experience, and shape your future.

We encourage you to be curious, take ownership of your development, and explore the many opportunities available within our business. Speak with your manager about your goals, seek out projects that excite you, and don’t be afraid to stretch beyond your comfort zone — that’s where real growth happens.

Your career journey is unique, and we’re here to support you every step of the way. Let’s keep learning, keep improving, and keep building something exceptional together.

The Role

The Design Manager will lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver technically robust and coordinated designs for hyperscale, enterprise and colocation data-centre projects. This role covers full design-cycle oversight, including scoping, technical assurance, regulatory compliance, stakeholder engagement and interface management from concept through to construction support.

Responsibilities

Managing all design stages across architecture, MEP, environmental, digital systems and technical advisory streams. Ensuring integrated solutions across energy management, water systems, sustainability and operational resilience – key challenges in modern data-centre development. Working closely with clients to shape briefs, project origination, commercial definition and feasibility alignment. Steering compliance with both UK and international standards, ensuring design quality and project readiness. Supporting modular and prefabricated design approaches to accelerate programme delivery and improve energy efficiency. Coordinating planning submissions, permitting activities and interface with environmental and grid stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will bring

• Extensive design-management experience in mission-critical or technically complex infrastructure, preferably including data centres.
• Strong multidisciplinary coordination skills, with the ability to integrate engineering, architecture, digital and environmental inputs.
• Awareness of emerging UK market drivers such as power-grid constraints, increased AI-related energy use, net-zero policies and the surge in new facility construction.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach to navigating regulatory, environmental and technical challenges.
• Excellent communication and client-management skills.
• Degree-level qualifications in engineering, architecture or a related discipline; chartership desirable.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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