Senior Data Center Architecture Lead - Mission Critical

Amentum; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Amentum is seeking a highly experienced Senior Architecture Manager to lead the planning, design management, and delivery of hyperscale and mission-critical data center projects. You will serve as the architectural authority through the full lifecycle, coordinating with electrical, mechanical, controls, and construction teams to ensure reliability, security, and scalability.

The role requires deep domain expertise in data centers or critical facilities, strong design leadership, and the ability

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data centers, critical facilities, or complex infrastructure environments.
• Proven expertise in design management, multidisciplinary coordination, and delivering scalable facilities from concept to commissioning.

Responsibilities

• Lead architectural programming, planning, and design management for new construction, campus expansions, retrofit projects, and facility upgrades.
• Establish architectural design criteria, standards, and project objectives for mission-critical environments.
• Direct the development and review of conceptual, schematic, design development, and construction document packages.
• Ensure designs support operational efficiency, reliability, security, maintainability, and long-term growth strategies.
• Review and approve architectural deliverables, specifications, reports, calculations, and design documentation.
• Drive consistency across multiple projects through standardization and implementation of design best practices.
• Lead planning and design efforts for hyperscale data centers, colocation facilities, enterprise data centers, mission-critical operations centers, and telecommunications facilities.
• Coordinate space planning for white space, electrical rooms, mechanical plants, security operations, and admin spaces.
• Support site due diligence, feasibility studies, campus master planning, and development strategies.
• Ensure architectural solutions support high-density computing, AI workloads, critical power infrastructure, and cooling requirements.
• Lead coordination among architectural, structural, civil, electrical, mechanical, controls, and telecom engineers and construction teams.
• Facilitate design review meetings and interdisciplinary coordination workshops.
• Resolve design conflicts, constructability issues, and technical challenges during preconstruction and execution.
• Manage design schedules, deliverables, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Lead technical reviews to ensure alignment with client standards and project requirements.
• Coordinate architectural scope during commissioning and occupancy readiness.

Job description

Amentum is seeking a highly experienced Senior Architecture Manager to lead the planning, design management, and delivery of hyperscale and mission-critical data center projects. You will serve as the architectural authority through the full lifecycle, coordinating with electrical, mechanical, controls, and construction teams to ensure reliability, security, and scalability.

The role requires deep domain expertise in data centers or critical facilities, strong design leadership, and the ability