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OverviewAbout The Role As Principal Delivery Engineer, you play a critical role in shaping and delivering the technical vision for Global Switch’s capital projects, ensuring that engineering solutions are robust, innovative, and fully aligned with both business objectives and the highest industry standards. This role provides expert technical leadership, oversight, and coordination across all stages of engineering design and delivery, spanning multiple campuses and regions. Collaboration is central to this position as the Principal Delivery Engineer works alongside the Engineering Manager, Engineering Director, and site-based technical operations teams, as well as project engineers across other campuses, to share lessons learned, maintain design consistency, and provide support as needed. This is a technically demanding and globally connected role, suited to an experienced engineering professional who combines design rigour with delivery focus. The Principal Delivery Engineer is committed to enabling infrastructure excellence through collaboration, quality assurance, and engineering leadership, while modelling the organisation’s core values of Precision, People, Impact, and Evolution.Key ResponsibilitiesDefine comprehensive technical specifications and project briefs, ensuring all requirements are clear, measurable, and aligned with both business objectives and regulatory standards.Oversee the integration of multidisciplinary design elements, ensuring every aspect meets or exceeds local, national, and international codes and standards, and proactively address compliance gaps.Critically assess design proposals for robustness, scalability, and cost efficiency, identifying opportunities to enhance resilience and reduce lifecycle costs.Proactively detect, document, and resolve infrastructure deficiencies, implementing corrective actions to maintain system integrity and reliability.Perform rigorous, impartial evaluations of critical systems, identifying vulnerabilities and implementing strategies to eliminate or mitigate single points of failure.Maintain comprehensive risk registers, ensuring all design-related risks are clearly recorded, regularly reviewed, and effectively managed throughout the project lifecycle.Develop and execute robust contingency strategies to address project delays, ensuring timely recovery and minimal impact on overall delivery.Conduct thorough technical and financial analyses of design options, considering long-term operational and maintenance implications to inform optimal decision-making.About YouYou’re a highly experienced engineering professional with a strong technical foundation and a proven track record of delivering complex, mission-critical infrastructure projects across multiple sites or regions. You combine deep expertise in data centre engineering with a delivery-focused mindset, ensuring design solutions are robust, compliant, and aligned to both operational needs and long-term business objectives. You thrive in technically demanding environments where quality, reliability, and resilience are non-negotiable. Acting as a trusted technical authority, you’re confident guiding multidisciplinary teams, challenging design assumptions, and driving consistency through standards, governance, and best practice. Collaborative by nature, you work seamlessly with Engineering Managers, Directors, project engineers, and site operations teams to share knowledge, resolve issues, and continuously improve outcomes.Key RequirementsPossess advanced knowledge of data centre systems, applying engineering principles to design and deliver high-performance, resilient infrastructure.Provide expert advice and hands-on support to project and site teams, ensuring engineering solutions are practical, innovative, and aligned with operational needs.Prioritise tasks and manage workloads efficiently, ensuring deadlines are met and resources are used optimally under the guidance of leadership.Ensure all engineering activities reflect the organisation’s sustainability commitments, embedding environmental considerations into every stage of project delivery.Lead the end-to-end technical design process, coordinating with external partners to ensure solutions are innovative, compliant, and aligned with project goals.Support the planning and budgeting of capital projects, ensuring financial and resource plans are robust.Expertly evaluate technical risks, developing and implementing effective mitigation strategies to safeguard system reliability.About Global SwitchGlobal Switch is a data centre provider with a focus on reliability, sustainability, and long-term partnerships. We operate large-scale facilities worldwide and value excellence and teamwork. This description focuses on the role and responsibilities, and provides necessary context about the company and its equal opportunity commitment in line with legal requirements.Equal Employment Opportunity Global Switch is an equal-opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We provide reasonable adjustments to support a barrier-free recruitment process and working environment.
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