Sr. DC Design Manager for Region (AMER), DCDE - AMER

Key Job Responsibilities

• Lead project teams of discipline leads to deliver quality and globally consistent data center designs while maintaining high quality within budget and schedule.
• Influence internal stakeholders, operations teams, and external consultants to address program‑wide design changes.
• Manage escalations and identify multidisciplinary design decisions.
• Understand design development, change management, permitting (working with AHJs), and implementation (working with construction managers, RFIs, submittals) lifecycle.
• Apply project management skills including critical‑path scheduling, risk management, quality management, and cost management.
• Manage design consultants, procurement, contracting, deliverable management, and payments.
• Communicate consistently with AWS leadership and external partners; create, track, and report metrics related to schedule, cost, and quality throughout project life cycle.
• Convey Amazon's Leadership Principles and manage competing priorities.
• Drive speed, quality, and simplification by eliminating rework loops; reduce and automate manual work through standardization and automation.
• Create global best‑practice documentation and facilitate sharing across the organization.
• Motivate others to achieve impeccable quality in a growth‑driven and deadline‑oriented environment.
• Travel for site assessments, internal design meetings, construction reviews, and interfacing with design consultants (anticipated travel not to exceed 25 %; international travel may be required).

A Day in the Life

• Lead design team meetings to coordinate cross‑disciplinary decisions.
• Review and approve design documents and changes.
• Manage consultant deliverables and performance.
• Respond to technical escalations from various teams.
• Collaborate with procurement and construction teams on implementation.
• Coordinate with AHJs for permitting requirements.
• Track project metrics for schedule, cost, and quality.
• Create and update best‑practice documentation.
• Participate in stakeholder meetings.
• Conduct site assessments and construction reviews.
• Manage critical‑path schedules and risk mitigation.
• Mentor team members on design standards.
• Analyze design optimization opportunities.
• Review RFIs and submittal responses.

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years of data center design, construction, operations, or facility maintenance experience.
• 6+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission‑critical facilities (e.g., data centers, power generation, oil and gas).
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related field.
• Knowledge of critical data center mechanical and electrical equipment.
• Experience researching new designs, technologies, and construction methods of data center equipment and facilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Professional Engineering or Architectural license.
• Knowledge of building codes and regulations for your region.
• Experience carrying design concepts through exploration, development, and deployment or mass production.
• Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents.

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