Canada Market Sector Lead Data Centres

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Role description:

Arcadis is seeking a Market Sector Lead Data Centers to drive the growth leadership and technical excellence of our data center design and engineering practice across Canada. This role sits within the Design & Engineering team and is both marketfacing and deliveryoriented responsible for winning work leading in-house multidisciplinary design teams and delivering complex missioncritical facilities for hyperscale colocation enterprise and public-sector clients.

The successful candidate will bring deep technical credibility a strong professional network in the Canadian data center industry and a proven ability to position and market Arcadis engineering talent to secure new opportunities. This individual will lead data center pursuits from early strategy and proposal development through detailed design and construction support while shaping the long-term growth strategy for the market sector in Canada.

Role accountabilities:

Market Leadership & Business Development

• Act as Arcadis Canadas Data Centre Market Lead setting the vision strategy and growth roadmap for the sector.
• Leverage established industry relationships (owners developers operators contractors and technology partners) to originate and secure new design assignments.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to clients on data center planning design resilience sustainability and future scalability.
• Lead or support strategic pursuits including:
  • Go/nogo decision-making
  • Client engagement and positioning
  • Proposal strategy messaging and pricing input
  • Interview and presentation leadership
• Represent Arcadis at industry events conferences and client forums enhancing brand visibility in the Canadian DC market.
• Collaborate with global Arcadis data center leaders to bring international expertise and best practices into Canada.

Design Leadership & Project Delivery

• Provide technical and design leadership for data center projects across all phases:
  • Master planning and site selection
  • Conceptual and detailed design
  • IFC documentation
  • Construction administration and commissioning support
• Lead and integrate multidisciplinary engineering teams including structural mechanical electrical fire/life safety civil and specialist consultants.
• Ensure alignment with missioncritical requirements including:
  • Redundancy and resiliency (Tier IIV Uptime Institute client-specific standards)
  • Power and cooling strategies
  • Physical security and operational continuity
  • Maintainability and lifecycle performance
• Establish and uphold design quality standards technical governance and risk management across projects.
• Act as Design Manager / Technical Lead on key marquee pursuits and flagship Canadian projects.

Proposal & Pursuit Leadership

• Lead the technical narrative and design approach for proposals and RFQs/RFPs related to data center projects.
• Coordinate contributions from engineering disciplines to ensure clear compelling and clientfocused submissions.
• Translate client needs into differentiated value propositions highlighting Arcadis innovation sustainability leadership and technical depth.
• Participate in commercial reviews scope definition fee development and resource planning.

People Talent & Capability Development

• Champion the growth of Arcadis Canadian data center engineering capability including mentoring senior engineers and emerging leaders.
• Identify skills gaps and support recruitment and talent development within the DC market sector.
• Collaborate with business leaders to align staffing training and career pathways with market growth.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence collaboration and innovation within the design team.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering (Mechanical Electrical or related);
• Registered Professional Engineer (.) in at least one Canadian jurisdiction (or ability to obtain).
• 15 years of experience in the design and delivery of data centers or other missioncritical facilities.
• Demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary design teams on complex largescale projects.
• Strong client-facing experience including pursuit leadership and proposal interviews.
• Established network within the Canadian data center industry with a track record of originating or influencing new work.
• Solid understanding of:
  • Power distribution and redundancy
  • Mechanical cooling systems
  • Sustainability and energy efficiency strategies
  • Codes standards and DC-specific guidelines

Why Arcadis

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyones contribution matters. Its why we are pioneering a skills-based approach where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

Youll do meaningful work and no matter what role youll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark on your career your colleagues your clients your life and the world around you.

Together we can create a lasting legacy.

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We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Women minorities people with disabilities and veterans are strongly encouraged to apply. We are dedicated to a policy of non-discrimination in employment on any basis including race creed color religion national origin sex age disability marital status sexual orientation gender identity citizenship status disability veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.