At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead innovative data centre designs and ensure technical excellence across projects.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company shaping the future of data centres.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, hybrid work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Dynamic role with excellent career advancement in a fast-paced environment.
- Why this job: Make a significant impact in high-performance computing and sustainable design.
- Qualifications: 8-12+ years in data centre design with strong engineering skills required.
The predicted salary is between 80000 - 100000 £ per year.
Location: United Kingdom (Hybrid)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Key Responsibilities
- Design Governance & Technical Leadership
- Own, develop, and continuously improve our client's data centre reference architecture and technical standards
- Lead technical review, challenge, and approval of all externally produced designs
- Ensure designs align with HPC performance requirements, resilience targets, heat-reuse objectives, and operational needs
- Chair technical design reviews, stage-gate approvals, and engineering risk workshops
- Act as the ultimate technical authority for design decisions across projects
- Mechanical & Electrical Design Leadership
- Provide direct technical oversight across all MEP disciplines
- Lead design decisions relating to HV and LV electrical systems
- Redundant power architectures
- UPS systems
- Standby generation
- High-density cooling systems
- Collaborate with engineering teams to continuously improve reference architectures for HPC and heat recovery applications
- Define and govern heat export interfaces and integration with thermal networks
- Ensure designs are efficient, safe, maintainable, and operable throughout the asset lifecycle
- External Design & Build Partner Management
- Translate business strategy and technical standards into Employer's Requirements and design briefs
- Work closely with architects, MEP consultants, and Design & Build contractors to resolve complex design challenges
- Review RFIs, technical submissions, deviations, and proposed design changes
- Ensure delivered solutions remain aligned with approved standards and project objectives
- Construction, Commissioning & Handover
- Support construction and commissioning teams with timely technical decision-making
- Resolve design-related site issues and coordination clashes
- Define commissioning strategies, acceptance criteria, and performance testing requirements
- Ensure full technical compliance at handover, including complete and accurate as-built documentation
- Operational & Asset Performance Alignment
- Ensure designs support reliable, cost-effective, long-term operations
- Capture operational lessons learned and integrate them into future design standards
- Support investigations into operational performance issues through detailed engineering analysis
- Strategic Technical Development
- Contribute to the long-term technology roadmap for HPC and heat-reuse data centres
- Assess emerging technologies that improve efficiency, resilience, scalability, and sustainability
- Drive standardisation to enable repeatable deployment across a rapidly expanding portfolio
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Communicate complex technical matters clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Provide concise engineering insight to senior leadership, investors, partners, and project stakeholders
- Support technical inputs into business cases, investment papers, and strategic decision-making
Essential Experience & Qualifications
- 8–12+ years of experience in data centre, mission-critical, or complex infrastructure design
- Strong mechanical and electrical engineering capability
- Proven experience acting as a technical authority over third-party design organisations
- Demonstrated track record delivering complex engineering projects from concept through operation
- Experience with:
- High Performance Computing (HPC) environments
- High-density cooling technologies
- Resilient power systems
- Mission-critical infrastructure
- Strong understanding of Design & Build delivery models
- Hands-on engineering mindset with the ability to engage at detailed design level when required
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or Building Services Engineering
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial growth environment
Desirable:
- Chartered Engineer status
- Experience within large-scale infrastructure construction and operations
- Familiarity with project finance and infrastructure investment structures
- Experience working within a private equity, infrastructure fund, or investor-backed business
Senior Principal Design Engineer in Birmingham employer: Morson Edge
As a Senior Principal Design Engineer at our company, you will thrive in a dynamic and innovative environment that champions technical excellence and collaboration. We offer a hybrid working model in the UK, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth, with opportunities to lead cutting-edge projects in high-performance computing and sustainable design. Our commitment to employee development, coupled with a supportive team atmosphere, makes us an exceptional employer for those seeking meaningful and impactful work.
We think you need these skills to ace Senior Principal Design Engineer in Birmingham
Data Centre Design
Technical Leadership
Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
High Performance Computing (HPC)
High-density Cooling Technologies
Resilient Power Systems
Design & Build Delivery Models
