Remote Data Center Design Program Manager

Insight Global; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global seeks a Senior Design Project Manager to lead the technical design delivery for large-scale data center projects. This role interfaces with developers, GCs, and internal design/engineering teams to manage design reviews and OPR compliance from engagement through handover.

The candidate will guide multidisciplinary submittal reviews, support fast-track delivery, and oversee change control governance, ensuring cross-functional alignment and timely decision-making across stage gates.

Qualifications

• 5–15 years of senior-level experience in design project management.
• Hands-on data center design experience.
• Background in civil engineering, architecture, or structural engineering.
• Knowledge of multi-disciplinary data center design and construction workflows.
• Experience in fast-track design and construction project delivery.
• CCB governance and engineering submittal/RFI management experience.
• Strong capability managing cross-functional handoffs between planning, design, and construction teams.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, or equivalent technical experience.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and risk management skills.
• Experience on hyperscale data center campuses.
• Prior experience supporting a major hyperscale or cloud provider.

Responsibilities

• Lead design delivery for data center projects, managing site-specific technical due diligence (TDD) and OPR compliance.
• Orchestrate multi-disciplinary technical submittal reviews across design stage gates: BOD, 30%, 65%, 95%, and IFC/IFP.
• Review developer deliverables against technical specifications and evaluate stage-gate entrance and exit criteria.
• Manage Change Control Board (CCB) processes to evaluate scope, schedule, and cost impacts from design modifications.
• Evolve compute and hardware requirements, or baseline specification updates.
• Facilitate regular technical syncs with external developers, third-party partners, and internal engineering teams.
• Maintain meeting minutes, partner accounts, and project environment access (e.g., ACC, shared drives).

Skills

Data center design

CCB governance

Stakeholder mgmt

Stage-gate reviews

RFI management

Cross-functional

Hyperscale DC

Technical design

Stage gate ownership

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Architecture/Construction Mgmt

Tools

Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC)

Procore

Asana

Job description

Insight Global seeks a Senior Design Project Manager to lead the technical design delivery for large-scale data center projects. This role interfaces with developers, GCs, and internal design/engineering teams to manage design reviews and OPR compliance from engagement through handover.

The candidate will guide multidisciplinary submittal reviews, support fast-track delivery, and oversee change control governance, ensuring cross-functional alignment and timely decision-making across stage gates.