Data Center Architect - Construction

Turner & Townsend; Wide Ruins (AZ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Turner & Townsend in the United States is seeking a Data Center Architect with proven data center planning and design experience. You will serve as SME for mission-critical building systems and guide designs across project phases.

Collaborate with stakeholders, consultants, and contractors to enforce Owner standards, review design packages, and ensure life-safety and ADA compliance. BIM/Revit proficiency is highly valued; professional registration is desirable.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture or a closely related design field.
• 7+ years of experience in architectural design, with a focus on large-scale industrial, commercial, or mission-critical facilities.
• Strong understanding of complex building systems, including high-performance building envelopes, structural coordination, and life safety/fire-rated assemblies.
• 10+ years of professional architectural consulting or design experience as an Owner’s Rep.
• Direct design experience with data center infrastructure, command centers, or massive-scale utility yards.
• Proven experience managing large-scale campus master planning, site massing, and complex space-programming challenges.
• Advanced proficiency with BIM / Revit workflows for cross-functional model coordination and clash detection.
• Professional architectural registration/licensure (e.g., RA, AIA, or regional equivalent) is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Owner’s architectural SME and technical advisor through all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Partner with internal stakeholder groups, design consultants, construction management firms, and general contractors to administer design documents and enforce Owner standards.
• Provide technical guidance and rigorous reviews of architectural work packages, focusing on life safety/egress, ADA compliance, signage, site layout, and core data center building design.
• Author and refine architectural design guidelines, campus planning standards, and prototypical building templates.
• Audit design consultant deliverables at key milestones, providing detailed peer-review comments on Basis of Design (BOD), 30%, 65%, and 100% documentation.
• Build and review a wide range of technical project documentation, including Architectural Scopes of Work, design guidelines, and standard operating procedures.

Skills

Architectural design

Data center

BIM / Revit

Owner's Rep

Building systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Architecture

Tools

Revit

Job description

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include program, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Data Center Architect with proven experience in data center building planning and design.

• In this role, you will act as the key Subject Matter Expert (SME) for mission-critical data center building systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to guide building designs, enforce Owner standards, and address construction issues and substitutions. A strong understanding What You’ll Do:
• Owner’s Representative: Serve as the Owner’s architectural SME and technical advisor through all phases of the project lifecycle.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with internal stakeholder groups, design consultants, construction management firms, and general contractors to administer design documents and enforce Owner standards.
• Design Oversight: Provide technical guidance and rigorous reviews of architectural work packages, specifically focusing on life safety/egress, ADA compliance, signage, site layout, and core data center building design.
• Standards & Innovation: Author and refine architectural design guidelines, campus planning standards, and prototypical building templates.
• Milestone Reviews: Audit design consultant deliverables at key milestones, providing detailed peer-review comments on Basis of Design (BOD), 30%, 65%, and 100% documentation.
• You will be responsible for authoring and reviewing a wide range of technical project documentation, including:
• Architectural Scopes of Work (SOW), design guidelines, and standard operating procedures.
• Comprehensive drawing markups, spatial fit-checks, and concept designs.
• Material substitution reviews and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) architectural inputs.
• Building envelope specifications, submittal approvals, and construction punch-list resolutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture or a closely related design field.
• 7+ years of experience in architectural design, with a focus on large-scale industrial, commercial, or mission-critical facilities.
• Strong understanding of complex building systems, including high-performance building envelopes, structural coordination, and life safety/fire-rated assemblies.

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional architectural consulting or design experience as an Owner’s Rep.
• Direct design experience with data center infrastructure, command centers, or massive-scale utility yards.
• Proven experience managing large-scale campus master planning, site massing, and complex space-programming challenges.
• Advanced proficiency with BIM / Revit workflows for cross-functional model coordination and clash detection.
• Professional architectural registration/licensure (e.g., RA, AIA, or regional equivalent) is highly desirable.

Additional Information

The base salary range for this role is $150K-$175K USD. This range reflects the company's good faith estimate of the base salary for this position at the time of the posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity. In addition to base salary, employees may be eligible for bonuses and a comprehensive benefits package.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change. We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.