Data Centre Engineering Design Expert

Tata Consulting Engineers; Navi Mumbai; On-site; INR 5,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consulting Engineers seeks a senior Data Centre Engineering Design Expert to lead end-to-end design for hyperscale and colocation data centres. The role combines technical excellence with commercial acumen to deliver energy-efficient, scalable infrastructure.

Responsibilities include establishing standards, driving innovation, ensuring regulatory compliance, and managing stakeholders to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery while advancing ESG objectives.

Qualifications

• Senior data centre engineering design experience required.
• Proven leadership in hyperscale or colocation data centres.
• Strong technical and commercial acumen.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design of hyperscale/colocation data centres.
• Establish engineering standards, roadmaps, and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Drive innovation in power, cooling, automation, and ESG readiness.
• Oversee energy efficiency, PUE reduction, and renewable integration.
• Support technical due diligence and CAPEX/OPEX optimization.
• Engage with sales and customers for solutions and bids.
• Build and lead multidisciplinary teams and manage risk.

Skills

20+ years experience

Leadership

Electrical systems

HVAC & cooling

UPS & DG

BMS/DCIM

Sustainability

Commercial solutioning

Job description

Data Centre Engineering Design Expert is a senior leadership role responsible for driving the engineering strategy, design excellence, business growth, and successful delivery of data centre projects. The role combines deep technical expertise with commercial acumen to develop resilient, scalable, energy-efficient, and customer-centric data centre solutions.

Candidate Profile

• 20+ years of experience in data centre engineering, design, and project delivery.
• Proven leadership experience in large-scale hyperscale or colocation data centres.
• Strong expertise in electrical systems, HVAC, cooling, UPS, DG, BMS/DCIM, sustainability, and commercial solutioning.

Key Responsibilities

Engineering & Design Leadership

• Lead end-to-end design and engineering of hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data centres.
• Establish engineering standards, technology roadmaps, and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with Uptime Institute, TIA-942, BICSI, ASHRAE, and statutory regulations.
• Drive innovation in power systems, cooling technologies, automation, and AI-ready infrastructure.
• Lead initiatives to improve energy efficiency, reduce PUE, and achieve ESG objectives.
• Evaluate renewable energy integration and sustainable infrastructure solutions.
• Manage CAPEX/OPEX optimization and technical due diligence.

Business Growth & Customer Solutioning

• Support business expansion through technical sales, customer engagement, and solution development.
• Managing both internal and External stakeholders
• Partner with sales teams for RFPs, bids, customer presentations, and contract negotiations.
• Build strategic relationships with hyperscalers, cloud providers, enterprises, and government clients.
• Identify market opportunities, emerging technologies, and growth strategies.
• Oversee engineering support from concept through commissioning and handover.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and to required quality standards.
• Drive value engineering, risk management, and operational readiness.

Leadership & Governance

• Build and lead high-performing multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Foster innovation, technical excellence, safety, and customer focus.
• Ensure compliance, quality assurance, business continuity, and risk mitigation practices.