Data Center Deployment Lead

Computacenter AG & Co. oHG; Livermore, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Computacenter is seeking a Project Engineer to provide end-to-end technical leadership for customer deployments, from requirements discovery through build, integration, validation, and technical closure. This role translates customer requirements into executable designs and serves as the primary technical liaison across customer, project leadership, engineering teams, and the integration facility.

This position focuses on project delivery rather than pre-sales activity, requiring strong

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, information technology, computer science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Five or more years of experience designing, configuring, implementing, or supporting enterprise technology environments.
• Demonstrated experience translating customer requirements into detailed technical designs and supporting solutions through build, validation, and acceptance.
• Relevant technical certifications (CCNP, CCDP, JNCIP) in networking, data center infrastructure, servers, storage, virtualization, audiovisual solutions, or related technologies are preferred.
• Must be legally eligible to work in the United States.
• Ability to travel domestically or internationally based on customer and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery to gather, validate, and document customer requirements, constraints, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Serve as the primary technical contact throughout the deployment lifecycle, translating requirements into executable designs.
• Communicate design decisions, risks, and trade-offs to technical and nontechnical stakeholders and lead resolution of technical issues.
• Develop and maintain solution designs, configuration specifications, implementation workbooks, rack designs, and related engineering documentation.
• Secure customer approval and release completed designs to the integration facility for build and testing.
• Provide technical direction to teams assembling, configuring, and testing customer solutions.
• Lead technical closure with the customer, validating completed work against approved requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Obtain customer technical signoff and ensure final documentation accurately reflects the delivered solution.
• Provide project leadership with timely visibility into technical status, risks, decisions, and recommendations.
• Provide technical input for changes or follow-on work within existing customer accounts.
• Lead technical contributors through influence, establishing direction, clarifying expectations, and driving accountability without direct reporting authority.
• Partner with project management, field engineering, consulting, integration centers, and other delivery functions to maintain alignment throughout deployment.
• Promote disciplined engineering, documentation, and continuous improvement practices.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, information technology, computer science, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience

Job description

Computacenter is seeking a Project Engineer to provide end-to-end technical leadership for customer deployments, from requirements discovery through build, integration, validation, and technical closure. This role translates customer requirements into executable designs and serves as the primary technical liaison across customer, project leadership, engineering teams, and the integration facility.

This position focuses on project delivery rather than pre-sales activity, requiring strong