Senior Design Manager, Data Centers

Iron Mountain Incorporated; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 124,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Compensation packages

Paid time off

Health and retirement plans

Career growth

Job summary

Iron Mountain Incorporated is seeking an experienced Senior Design Manager to join our North America Design team. You will lead end-to-end design delivery on major data center projects, deployments, expansions, or complex upgrades, guiding multidisciplinary teams through concept to handover.

You will align technical decisions with safety, customer, program, resilience, and sustainability goals while mentoring Design Managers to elevate regional practices across the portfolio.

Qualifications

• Typically 10+ years of experience in data center or mission-critical projects.
• Deep understanding of critical-facility systems, codes, standards, permitting, and compliance.
• Ability to mentor and lead cross-functional teams through influence.

Responsibilities

• Define the design delivery strategy and lead major facility, campus phase, or complex regional programs from concept development through construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Coordinate external consultants, equipment manufacturers, contractors, and internal stakeholders to integrate architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and security systems.
• Oversee design reporting, risk management, and value engineering while leading the resolution of technical, commercial, and program risks.
• Serve as the principal design partner across internal divisions while mentoring Design Managers to elevate regional practices.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional coordination

Facility design

Risk management

Mentoring

Education

Architecture or Engineering degree

U.S. Citizenship

Willingness to travel

Job description

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Full time

Senior Design Manager – Data Center

Job Summary

Iron Mountain is seeking an experienced Senior Design Manager to join our North America Design team. In this role, you will be responsible for end-to-end design execution on major data center developments, customer deployments, phased expansions, or complex operational upgrades. Working within a dynamic team, you will lead multidisciplinary design delivery across the full project lifecycle, ensuring technical decisions align with safety, customer, commercial, program, resilience, and sustainability goals.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

• Own End-to-End Design Execution: Define the design delivery strategy and lead major facility, campus phase, or complex regional programs from concept development through construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Direct Multidisciplinary Teams: Coordinate external consultants, equipment manufacturers, contractors, and internal stakeholders to integrate architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and security systems.
• Drive Risk & Financial Assurance: Oversee design reporting, risk management, and value engineering while leading the resolution of technical, commercial, and program risks.
• Partner & Mentor: Serve as the principal design partner across internal divisions (Construction, Operations, Security, Sustainability) while mentoring Design Managers to elevate regional practices.

What You’ll Bring (Skills & Qualifications)

• Relevant Experience: Typically 10+ years of experience with substantial accountability for complex data center or mission-critical capital projects.
• Technical Mastery: Deep multidisciplinary understanding of critical-facility systems, consultant governance, codes/standards, permitting, and global vs. local compliance.
• Influence & Leadership: Strong commercial awareness to balance technical trade-offs against costs alongside proven capability to mentor and lead cross-functional teams through influence.
• Education & Travel: A four-year college degree in Architecture, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline, U.S. Citizenship, and the ability to travel up to 25%.

What We Offer (Benefits)

• Compensation: Competitive compensation and total rewards packages aligned with your experience level.
• Work-Life Balance: Generous paid time off, holiday schedules, and flexible work options to support work-life balance.
• Health & Well-being: Comprehensive health, wellness, and retirement plans.
• Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning, technical leadership, and career growth within Iron Mountain.
• Reasonably expected salary range: $123,500.00 - $164,700.00
• Please note that an employee's starting salary may vary based on a variety of factors. Where State, Municipal, Provincial, Territorial or other legal minimum wages exceed the federal minimum wage, employees are entitled to the higher rate.

Category: Real Estate & Facilities

Iron Mountain is a global leader in storage and information management services trusted by more than 225,000 organizations in 60 countries. We safeguard billions of our customers’ assets, including critical business information, highly sensitive data, and invaluable cultural and historic artifacts. Take a look at our history here.

Iron Mountain helps lower cost and risk, comply with regulations, recover from disaster, and enable digital and sustainable solutions, whether in information management, digital transformation, secure storage and destruction, data center operations, cloud services, or art storage and logistics. Please see our Values and Code of Ethics for a look at our principles and aspirations in elevating the power of our work together.

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