About the Role
This is a strategic leadership opportunity for an experienced, client-focused data centre specialist to establish, develop, and grow our data centre capability from Dubai, serving clients and projects across the wider MENA region. For the right candidate, this may represent a step up from their current role; they will be supported in making that transition through close collaboration with regional leadership and access to our established global sector experts. The successful candidate will be expected to combine sector credibility, technical leadership, and commercial drive to build a sustainable regional business unit.
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You will be accountable for the full lifecycle of the sector’s growth and delivery: identifying and mapping priority clients, developing opportunities, leading bids and proposals, shaping project strategies, overseeing multidisciplinary design delivery, and ensuring robust quality assurance and quality control throughout each commission.
Working closely with regional leadership and our established global data centre specialists, you will set the direction for the MENA offer, develop trusted client relationships, build a high-performing local team, and ensure that our technical, commercial, and service standards are consistently delivered. You will have the support, guidance, and technical depth of both the regional leadership team and our global network of sector experts.
Key Responsibilities:
- Establish and grow the data centre business unit in Dubai as a regional platform serving the MENA market.
- Develop a clear regional growth plan, including target markets, priority clients, strategic partners, pipeline opportunities, and sector positioning.
- Lead work winning activity, including client mapping, opportunity development, bid strategy, proposal leadership, fee development, and commercial negotiation.
- Act as a senior client-facing representative for the data centre sector, building long-term relationships with developers, operators, hyperscale clients, investors, contractors, and delivery partners.
- Lead multidisciplinary design delivery on data centre projects, ensuring solutions are technically robust, coordinated, buildable, resilient, sustainable, and aligned with client requirements.
- Own project delivery governance, including programme, resourcing, risk management, change control, commercial performance, reporting, and stakeholder communication.
- Implement and maintain rigorous QA/QC processes, including design reviews, technical approvals, interdisciplinary checks, lessons learned, and compliance with relevant standards, codes, and procedures.
- Recruit, mentor, and develop engineers and technical specialists, creating a high-performing team culture that supports growth, accountability, and collaboration across the region.
The Skills
You will be a Chartered Engineer or working towards equivalent professional recognition, educated to degree level in a relevant engineering discipline. You will bring significant consultancy experience, with a proven track record in data centre, mission-critical, high-technology, or similarly complex MEP-led projects.
The role requires someone who can operate as both a sector leader and a delivery lead: commercially aware, technically credible, highly organised, and confident engaging with senior clients, project teams, and regional leadership.
You will have demonstrable experience developing client relationships, identifying new opportunities, shaping winning proposals, and converting prospects into live commissions. You will also understand how to build delivery teams, set expectations, manage resources, and maintain strong commercial performance across multiple concurrent projects.
Technically, you will be able to lead and review design outputs, manage multidisciplinary coordination, chair project and design reviews, oversee specifications and reports, and ensure that QA/QC procedures are applied consistently. You will be comfortable balancing hands-on technical input with strategic leadership, business development, and team management responsibilities.
