Senior Design Manager, Data Centers

Iron Mountain is seeking a Senior Design Manager to lead end-to-end design delivery for major data center developments, customer deployments, expansions, and operational upgrades. The role coordinates multidisciplinary teams and ensures design decisions support safety, customer, commercial, program, resilience, and sustainability goals.

Responsibilities:

• Own End-to-End Design Execution: Define the design delivery strategy and lead major facility, campus phase, or complex regional programs from concept development through construction, commissioning, and handover
• Direct Multidisciplinary Teams: Coordinate external consultants, equipment manufacturers, contractors, and internal stakeholders to integrate architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, controls, and security systems
• Drive Risk & Financial Assurance: Oversee design reporting, risk management, and value engineering while leading the resolution of technical, commercial, and program risks
• Partner & Mentor: Serve as the principal design partner across internal divisions (Construction, Operations, Security, Sustainability) while mentoring Design Managers to elevate regional practices

Requirements:

• Typically 10+ years of experience with substantial accountability for complex data center or mission-critical capital projects
• Deep multidisciplinary understanding of critical-facility systems, consultant governance, codes/standards, permitting, and global vs. local compliance
• Strong commercial awareness to balance technical trade-offs against costs
• proven capability to mentor and lead cross-functional teams through influence
• A four-year college degree in Architecture, Mechanical/Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline
• U.S. Citizenship