Data Center Design Authority & Quality Gate Lead

Norconsult Telematics; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 450,000 - 675,000; Full time

Job summary

Norconsult Telematics is seeking a Data Center Design Governance Lead for an on-site role in Damascus, Syria. You will own the design-review and quality-gate process, ensuring each data center design meets requirements, target uptime tier, and applicable standards before procurement.

You will act as the design authority, provide technical leadership, manage NCRs, review EPC/IFC submittals, and guide teams through L1–L5 commissioning, with travel as needed and fluent English required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering; a Master's in a relevant discipline is an advantage.
• Minimum 10 to 12 years in data center or mission-critical facility design, including 4 to 5 years in design review, design assurance, or owner's-engineer roles, with at least one Tier III or above facility from concept through commissioning.
• Demonstrated experience taking designs through formal stage gates and holding designers and vendors to a defined quality standard.
• Strong working knowledge of Uptime Institute tier topology, TIA-942, and EN 50600, applied with sound judgement.
• Practical command of critical power and cooling MEP systems (UPS, switchgear, generators, DC plant, chillers, and CRAH) with NFPA, IEC, and IEEE fire and electrical standards.
• Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designer (ATD) required, or to be obtained within the first three months; CTDC and DCDC strongly preferred.
• Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Professional Engineer (PE) registration strongly preferred.
• Strong written and spoken English required; Arabic an advantage; eligible to work in Syria; travel to data center sites within Syria as required.

Responsibilities

• Manage the design-review and quality-gate process through procurement.
• Verify traceability to requirements and reject deviations.
• Maintain independence from design production; review design partner at arm's length.
• Verify the resilience case via single-line diagrams, redundancy topology, maintainability, and single-point-of-failure analysis.
• Review critical power and cooling concepts and PUE.
• Ensure site meets target tier and applicable standards (TIA-942, EN 50600, ASHRAE).
• Issue design comments and NCRs; track closure.
• Provide design-assurance input into specifications and RFPs; support bid evaluation.
• Review EPC detailed-design and IFC submittals against approved intent.
• Chair design-change and deviation board; analyze and disposition change requests.
• Establish acceptance criteria for L1–L5 commissioning and handover through IST.
• Provide technical leadership to design and review teams throughout the lifecycle.

Skills

Data center design

Design review

Quality assurance

Engineering leadership

Technical governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering

Master's degree in a relevant discipline

Job description

Norconsult Telematics is seeking a Data Center Design Governance Lead for an on-site role in Damascus, Syria. You will own the design-review and quality-gate process, ensuring each data center design meets requirements, target uptime tier, and applicable standards before procurement.

You will act as the design authority, provide technical leadership, manage NCRs, review EPC/IFC submittals, and guide teams through L1–L5 commissioning, with travel as needed and fluent English required.