Director, Architectural Solutions Engineer

RELATED; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive total compensation

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

RELATED is hiring a Director of Solutions Engineering in Dallas, TX. The role involves leading client engagements and managing cohesive technical teams for data center projects. Candidates should have at least 10 years of experience in technical roles, a strong grasp of data center operations, and proficiency with tools like AutoCAD. This position offers opportunities to collaborate with internal teams and ensures alignment with client objectives. The company values inclusivity and offers competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience leading technical delivery in data centers.
• Deep understanding of data center design across multiple disciplines.
• Demonstrated success in client engagements and lease negotiations.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical engagements and manage client relationships.
• Oversee design and engineering efforts for greenfield builds.
• Translate complex client needs into actionable project plans.

Skills

Data center design and operations

Client-facing technical roles

Technical lease provisions negotiation

Cross-functional team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant architectural or engineering discipline

Tools

MS Office

AutoCAD/Visio

Bluebeam

CFD tools

Job description

Responsibilities

Related Digital is seeking a Director of Solutions Engineering, to lead client technical engagements through lease execution. This role combines technical precision with strategic leadership to ensure all engagements result in exceptional design quality, project success, and client satisfaction. The Director acts as a technical integrator and decision leader, ensuring that complex engineering provisions are aligned, documented, and actionable across teams and clients. This position reports to the Vice President of Engineering.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead client-facing engineering engagements and presentations — serve as the lead in client meetings, coordinating internal SMEs to communicate solutions effectively, deliver briefings and design reviews, and manage client relationships with clarity and confidence
• Collaborate and partner with internal Development, Construction, Sales and Operations teams – knowledge of data campus master planning and greenfield site developments
• Support all facility types — oversee design and engineering efforts for greenfield builds incorporating next-generation technologies such as liquid-cooled GPU environments and other high-density workload needs and future flexibility
• Translate complex client needs into actionable designs and project plans
• Develop and negotiate technical lease provisions and SLAs — integrate lease and SLA discussions into client engagements to ensure clear, consistent, and precise technical terms through execution
• Manage cross-functional technical teams across civil, architectural, structural, mechanical, and electrical engineering to deliver cohesive, high-quality design solutions
• Ensure design and contract governance — oversee the engineering and contracting lifecycle, maintaining alignment with Related Digital standards, technical accuracy, and client objectives

Project Facilitation and Technical Integration

• Lead structure technical review meetings, framing objectives, decision criteria, and expected outcomes
• Facilitate SME presentations, calling on technical leads to provide rationale for engineering provisions while maintaining meeting scope and time control
• Translate technical language across disciplines and for non-technical stakeholders, ensuring full comprehension and traceability of decisions
• Synthesize technical input into clear project recommendations, capturing what was decided, why, and what it impacts across cost, schedule, compliance, and reliability
• Identify cross-discipline integration risks early, particularly around power, cooling, and infrastructure interfaces
• Maintain neutrality in technical discussions, guiding consensus and linking engineering outcomes to client priorities and contractual requirements
• Document decisions and actions in real time; track follow-ups

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience leading strategic technical delivery within data center or mission-critical environments
• Deep understanding of data center design, construction, and operations across civil, architectural, mechanical, electrical disciplines
• Experience with one-story, two-story, precast, steel and pre-engineered metal buildings (PEMB) structures in addition to liquid cooling, GPU clusters, and high-density infrastructure for next generation data centers
• Demonstrated success in client-facing technical roles, including RFP/RFI responses, presentations, and lease/SLA negotiations
• Strong grasp of the data center lifecycle from concept through lease execution and commissioning
• Proficiency with MS Office, AutoCAD/Visio, Bluebeam, and CFD tools
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant architectural, engineering or design discipline
• Based in or willing to relocate to Dallas TX or New York NY

Overview

Related Digital is a leading vertically integrated data center development and investment platform. We deliver digital infrastructure solutions to hyperscale technology companies so they can accelerate artificial intelligence and cloud computing ambitions.

Founded by Related Companies, one of the most prominent, privately-owned real estate development firms in the United States, Related Digital uniquely combines Related’s 50‑year+ history of executing complex real estate and infrastructure projects with its track record in real estate investing and clean energy solutions. With a multi‑billion‑dollar, near‑term development pipeline in the U.S., Related Digital has the expert capabilities, depth of expertise and national scale to help hyperscale companies significantly grow their data center capacity on a rapid timeframe.

Strategic Advantage: Related Digital harnesses expertise across real estate development and investment, data center development, complex infrastructure construction and clean energy development to bring differentiated solutions to hyperscale technology companies.

National Footprint: Related Digital is based in New York and Dallas with operations across the United States. Related Companies has offices in gateway cities across the U.S. and London, and developments in 28 states and the District of Columbia, and boasts 4,000 employees.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are deliberate about the team and culture we are building. We aim to ensure competitive total compensation that is commensurate with experience, workplace geography, and market standards.

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