EMEA Data Center Strategy Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Dublin; On-site; EUR 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited seeks a Senior Infrastructure Architect to lead long-term data centre strategy across EMEA. You will coordinate regional delivery, design engineering, and cross-functional teams to align with global standards and regional requirements.

Responsibilities include evaluating market opportunities, site feasibility, power and climate analysis, and regulatory considerations.

Qualifications

• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents.
• Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region.
• Experience navigating planning/permitting processes in at least one European jurisdiction.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the long-term infrastructure strategy for data centre deployments across EMEA, ensuring alignment with stakeholders, our global standards and regional requirements.
• Lead technical evaluations of new market opportunities, including site feasibility, power availability, climate analysis, and regulatory considerations.
• Serve as the strategic interface between regional delivery teams, design engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders (construction, real estate & capacity planning etc.)
• Provide senior technical counsel to leadership on capital investment decisions, technology selection, and infrastructure roadmap prioritisation.
• Identify and mitigate risks in early-stage programs by applying engineering and architectural judgement across disciplines.
• Influence global design standards and templates by feeding back EMEA-specific lessons learned and regional best practices.
• Work with our Planning/Permitting Team partners to continuously improve our permitting and planning framework across EMEA jurisdictions, mapping regulatory pathways per region and building reusable knowledge that accelerates future site approvals.
• Continue to improve the quality of our delivery, bringing architectural rigour to how we communicate complex spatial and regulatory information to leadership and partner teams.

Skills

Multi-discipline coordination

Reading construction drawings

Regulatory knowledge

AutoCAD

Revit

Bluebeam

MS Office

Education

Professional Engineering or Architectural License

Site masterplanning

European planning experience

Tools

AutoCAD

Revit

Bluebeam

MS Office

Job description

Amazon Development Centre Ireland Limited seeks a Senior Infrastructure Architect to lead long-term data centre strategy across EMEA. You will coordinate regional delivery, design engineering, and cross-functional teams to align with global standards and regional requirements.

Responsibilities include evaluating market opportunities, site feasibility, power and climate analysis, and regulatory considerations.