Job Description

About Us
As an Arcadian, you already help us deliver world leading sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. You are part of our global business comprising 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can continue to solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Scope of Work
The Datacenter Engineering Principal Electrical Engineer will be part of the team responsible for the development of the client industry-leading datacenter designs. The successful candidate will be a professional electrical engineer with extensive experience in datacenter electrical engineering, design, construction, and operations. Candidate will manage, review, and coordinate the delivery of complex datacenter electrical systems, power distribution systems and backup power systems. This individual will be responsible for managing external consultants, making sure they engineer and design to the client standards. Candidate will also be responsible for the technical review and analysis of the lease and colocation datacenters from external providers for compliance with the client requirements.

Roles and Responsibilities
The SME will be responsible for

• Lead and direct consultants in the design and coordination of the electrical systems with other disciplines, associated power and overall electrical topology for our datacenter builds.
• Responsible for leading electrical workgroups with representatives from consulting firms along with key stakeholders with the Client.
• Manage all power system designs during the design stages, equipment procurement, bidding, manufacturing, delivery, and installation on site. Identify and resolve issues raised by the construction teams and various stakeholders.
• Interface closely with procurement team, the manufacturers, and the global and local engineering teams to deliver the electrical solutions needed for each project.
• Responsible for specification and design development, detailing the sequence of operation for the electrical systems and overall drawings and specifications for our electrical topology.
• Technical review and analysis of the lease and colocation datacenter space from external providers for compliance with Microsoft requirements.
• Lead technical review with utility provider to complete reliability study and support Energy team with feasibility studies.
• Support the Energy team is energy application by providing requirement in power demand, power resiliency and physical diversity.
• Support the Site Selection team by validating electrical infrastructure arrangement, substation footprint and identify power availability risk during site due diligence and test fit.
• Assist partner teams to review the electrical infrastructure upgrading scope to raise site utilization.
• Assist in commissioning validating performance, quality, and reliability.

Qualifications and Experience:
The ideal candidate will be an electrical Professional Engineer with expertise in datacenter electrical power engineering. A team player able to work in a multi-disciplined engineering team designing Datacenters globally and possesses the skills to work in a fast-paced multi project environment. Ideal candidate is knowledgeable in power generation and transmission topologies. Having a firm understanding of the electrical distribution system design and monitoring requirements for mission critical applications, along sequence of operation requirements and monitoring of all datacenter electrical control systems.

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Electrical Engineering Technology.
• Professional Engineer in Electrical Engineering
• Candidate must possess strong written and verbal communication skills, attention to detail and maintain high quality standards.
• Detailed understanding of uninterruptible power sources, diesel generators, electrical switchgear, power distribution units, and automatic/static transfer switches.
• Detailed understanding of relays, protection schemes, high-voltage distribution system, power and distribution transformers, earthing and switching.
• Excellent knowledge of building codes and regulations.
• Ability to prepare and present using MS office packages.

Experience Required:

• Registered Professional Engineer in Electrical Engineering.
• A minimum of 15 years’ experience in consulting engineering with a minimum of 5 years’ experience as lead engineer.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience with design, construction, operation or maintenance of large scale and complex electrical engineering systems (Datacenters, Micro Electronics are two examples of relevant industries).
• The ability to lead a team of engineers in advanced engineering and operational processes and procedures as they relate to large datacenter environments.
• Experience in designing, operating, and commissioning of electrical distribution systems, from high voltage (HV) to branch circuits.
• Experience with power system analysis and engineering software packages.
• Knowledge of mechanical and control systems related to datacenter environments.
• Ability to perform complex business case analysis to justify technical decisions.

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.