Job Description

Location: Remote

About Us:
Arcadis Group is the world’s leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. With sustainability at the heart of everything we do, our focus is on maximizing our impact aimed at improving quality of life. The solutions we develop, address important societal challenges around resilience, places, and mobility. Leveraging data and technology, we have the capabilities and services to meet client demands driven by global trends such as urbanization, climate change, digitalization, evolving stakeholder expectations and potential unforeseeable events.

With over 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life, a career at Arcadis Group is truly rewarding with excellent benefits and opportunities to develop your technical and professional development.

Scope of Work

The datacenter design architect will be responsible for the development of the clients industry leading datacenter designs which includes defining new technology and advanced concepts for pre-programming through design development, construction and the turnover to Operations.  The ideal candidate will have experience in a team environment, experience running and designing enterprise scale services and platforms, technical depth in cloud platforms, agile development practices, and experience in designing & tuning telemetry. In addition, this position requires an individual who can demonstrate the ability to ensure highly resilient and scalable service designs through partnership with other members of the service team.

Roles and Responsibilities

• The Architect SME will provide thought leadership and direction for the civil, structural and architectural workings to align with defined project scope, schedule and budget.
• The Architect SME will engage with key Client stakeholders, authority having jurisdiction as well as outside vendors who specialize in datacenter architecture.  
• The Architect SME will provide technical direction to vendors which includes professional architects, civil and structural engineers.  
• This position will manage multiple concurrent projects on a global scale and be part of the core team that’s launching the Client cloud infrastructure worldwide.
• Some domestic and international travel is required.

Skills and Qualifications

• The architect will provide technical direction for the civil, structural and architectural components of the projects including facilitating systems coordination and organization throughout the sites and datacenters.
• The candidate must have excellent communication, be highly organized and exhibit high level of project leadership; possess a high level of expertise in commercial and industrial architecture with a primary focus on datacenter design; have adequate experience in civil and structural design to provide confident direction to civil and structural engineering vendor experts.
• The candidate must also be able to work with other technical and non-technical groups in a fast-paced environment and must be a person of integrity with a methodical and detail oriented work ethic.

Knowledge, Experience and Experience:
Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture
• Registered Professional Architect
• 10+ years of experience in architecture/engineering with experience as a lead architect
• 7+ years of experience in mission critical projects (Datacenters, Laboratories and/or Micro-Electronics projects or similar)
• Demonstrated ability to write, speak, and present information effectively and persuasively
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Strong interpersonal skills: ability to lead and be proactive
• Excellent problem-solving, judgment, team building, and decision-making skills
• Experience using MS Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project, Visio, and Excel including effective reporting/presentations of project information

Preferred, not required:

• Experience operating CAD, Sketchup and/or BIM software for drawing review and adjustments is desirable

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging:

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 believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.