Data Center Development Leader – Financial Services Tech

EY

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 167,000 - 278,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Flexible vacation policy

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Job summary

EY is seeking a Manager in New York to lead data center development and modernization programs, spanning co-lo, Cloud migrations, and critical facilities for financial services clients. The role emphasizes owner-side governance, design review and cross-functional leadership across real estate, utilities, and technology teams.

Ideal candidates have 7+ years in mission-critical facilities, strong Power/Cooling knowledge, and experience presenting to executives.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, or related technical discipline.
At least 7 years of relevant experience, including direct leadership on data center Cloud transformation.
Experience on more than one data center build, major expansion or modernization effort.
Experience reviewing design and construction information and managing decisions across owner, designer, contractor, commissioning and operator teams.
Strong knowledge of critical power and cooling topologies, controls, maintainability, commissioning, and turnover.
Experience presenting complex scope, schedule, cost and risk issues to executives and technical leaders.
Public‑cloud migration experience is relevant and is a substitute for data center infrastructure migration, consolidation and exit experience.

Responsibilities

Lead technical site and facility workstreams for multiple concurrent data center and Cloud builds.
Lead technical evaluation of candidate sites using information developed by real estate advisors, developers, utilities and specialist consultants; translate findings into data center requirements, risks and executive decisions.
Translate IT load, rack density, growth, availability and recovery requirements into facility capacity and performance requirements.
Lead owner-side review of civil, structural, architectural, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, security, controls and telecommunications packages.
Challenge basis-of-design assumptions, single points of failure, maintainability, phasing, temporary conditions, equipment lead times and commissioning strategy.
Manage integrated baselines for scope, schedule, cost, risk, decisions, procurement, design maturity and operational readiness across concurrent projects.
Lead technical diligence and evaluation of developers, colocation providers, designers, contractors, commissioning agents and key suppliers; coordinate with CBRE or comparable real estate advisors without assuming brokerage, land‑acquisition or direct utility‑application responsibilities.
Oversee constructability, procurement readiness, change control, quality, FAT/SAT, commissioning, integrated systems testing, turnover, and closeout.
Coordinate with IT and migration leadership so facility, rack, network and transition milestones remain aligned.
Lead client meetings, team output, engagement economics, quality and executive recommendations.