Senior Data Center Design Lead

Amazon

Austin (TX)

On-site

USD 137,000 - 185,000

Full time

43 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

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Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) seeks a Sr. Regional Design Manager to lead cross-discipline design teams and drive high-quality, globally consistent data center designs across a region. The role emphasizes stakeholder influence, program-wide design decisions, and scalable design processes.

Requires 6+ years in data center design/engineering and a Bachelor's in Engineering. Travel up to 25% is expected. AWS offers comprehensive benefits and opportunities for growth within a dynamic cloud computing

Qualifications

6+ years of data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance experience.
6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities experience.
Knowledge of critical data center mechanical and electrical equipment.
Experience in data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance.

Responsibilities

Lead project teams of discipline leads to deliver quality and globally consistent DC designs and maintaining a high level of quality within budget and schedule.
Able to influence internal stakeholders, internal customers (operations), and external consultants to address program wide design changes
Manage escalations
Identify multi-disciplinary design decisions
Understanding of design development, design change management, permitting (working with AHJs), and implementation (working with CM/RFIs/Submittals) lifecycle
Project management skills (critical path schedule management, risk management, quality management, cost management)
Design consultant management including procurement, contracting, deliverable management, and payments
Effectively and consistently communicate with AWS Leadership and external project partners, including the creation, tracking & reporting of metrics related to schedule, cost, and quality Throughout the lifecycle of the project.
Manage competing priorities.
Drive speed, quality, and simplification by eliminating rework loops, reducing and automating manual work through standardization and automation.
Create global best practice documentation and facilitate sharing across the globe.
Ability to motivate others to achieve impeccable quality in an explosive growth and deadline-driven environment.
Travel for site assessments, internal design meetings, construction review, and interfacing with design consultants. Anticipated travel not to exceed 25%. International travel may be needed.