Subregional Design Lead - Central US

Job description

Title: Director, Design Engineering Location: Ashburn, Dallas, or Chicago: About the role: The Director, Design Engineering serves as the senior technical authority responsible for design strategy, execution, and governance for all retrofit, expansion, and customer-driven deployments across the America’s region. This role operates in highly constrained, live data-center environments, where available power, cooling, footprint, and phasing must be translated into maximum deployable IT capacity while protecting uptime, safety, and long-term asset value. This leader sits at the intersection of Engineering, Operations, Sales Engineering, Construction, and Portfolio Management, ensuring commercial commitments are supported by technically sound, buildable, and operationally viable designs. The role requires strong technical judgment, the ability to make and defend high-impact tradeoffs, and a deep understanding of how to deliver capacity in complex, operating facilities. What You’ll Do: - Provide strategic leadership, mentorship, and performance management for design managers supporting retrofit, expansion, and colocation programs across the region, balancing resources against commercial...