Data Center Design and Infrastructure Strategy Engineer

Smart IMS Inc.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Smart IMS Inc. is seeking a Data Centre Design & Infrastructure Strategy Engineer (SG). The role defines data centre design standards, expands and modernises facilities across multiple regions, and builds costed options with business cases for investment.

You will work with network architecture, hosting, sourcing, and external engineers, presenting findings to senior leadership. The candidate will lead site studies, challenge existing designs, and negotiate with colocation providers to optimise

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in data centre design, engineering or infrastructure strategy.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain data centre design standards.
• Lead site uplift assessments for power and cooling.
• Build costed option sets with capital, one-time and recurring costs.
• Decide rack content, topology and cabling standards.
• Negotiate with colocation providers and manage vendors.
• Present recommendations to senior technology leadership.

Skills

Data centre design

Engineering analysis

Costed business cases

Vendor negotiation

Infrastructure strategy

DCIM tooling

Network architecture literacy

Education

CDCP or equivalent

Job description

Smart IMS Inc is providing Digital technology & Cloud transformation services, Application & Infrastructure Management Services, Unified Communications, and Insurance implementation services to its customers in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. Smart IMS, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Oracle Platinum Partner, AWS MSP Partner is a trusted technology and business partner delivering technology-enabled solutions to help companies grow their businesses and compete globally.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Title: Data Centre Design & Infrastructure Strategy Engineer (SG)

Role Summary

The Data Centre Design & Infrastructure Strategy Engineer defines how the bank's data centres are designed, expanded and modernised. The role sets design standards, challenges existing architecture, builds costed options, and makes the financial case for infrastructure investment across more than 30 facilities in 12 countries. The role works closely with network architecture, hosting, sourcing, external engineering consultants and colocation providers, and presents recommendations directly to senior technology leadership.

How you work

You’re decisive and evidence-led. You can take an ambiguous site problem, gather the technical facts, cost the options, and come back with a recommendation rather than a list of considerations. You write clearly and briefly for executive audiences.

Key responsibilities

Design standards

• Define and maintain the standard data centre design classification — what a site should look like based on its network architecture and purpose, including base provisioning per rack type, power density assumptions, and structured cabling standards.

Site studies and uplift strategy

• Lead deep-dive assessments of existing sites covering power and cooling capacity, demand history, device footprint and rationalisation opportunities.
• Commission and interpret engineering feasibility studies, and translate the findings into a clear recommendation.

Expansion options and business cases

• Build costed option sets — reclaim existing footprint, add racks, or take new whitespace — with the capital, one-time and recurring cost impact of each. Present trade-offs plainly and recommend a path.

Architecture challenge

• Decide what goes into the rack: device placement, redundancy, pod versus legacy connectivity, cabling media, and uplink standards.
• Expect to question existing network and rack design where it no longer serves the business.

Vendor and partner engagement

• Negotiate power uplifts, containment modifications and cage expansion with colocation providers.
• Manage engineering consultants and cabling vendors through survey, quotation and delivery.

Required Skills & Experience

• Substantial experience in data centre design, engineering or infrastructure strategy, ideally in a multi-site regional role
• Strong grounding in data centre M&E: UPS, PDU, CRAC/AHU, cooling capacity, containment, three-phase power distribution
• Network architecture literacy — comfortable reading switch configurations, counting ports, and understanding spine/leaf and pod-based designs well enough to challenge them
• Proven ability to build costed options and business cases, and present them to senior stakeholders
• Track record negotiating with colocation providers, landlords and engineering consultants
• Familiarity with Uptime Institute Tier standards, ASHRAE thermal guidelines and local APAC regulatory requirements
• Experience with DCIM tooling and capacity forecasting platforms
• Exposure to regulated financial services environments
• Relevant certification such as CDCP or equivalent

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in network architecture and engineering, facilities engineering or infrastructure planning
• Experience supporting large‑scale or regulated enterprise environments (e.g. financial institutions)