Design Management Director
Pubblicato il 17-08-2026 - Data4 in Cornaredo
About the Role
The Design Director is responsible for the Design Management Function delivering design implementation across all of Data4’s data centre developments. The Design Management Function is accountable for the end-to-end design of data centres and campus infrastructure projects, ensuring solutions meet Data4’s design standards, customer requirements, programme constraints, and Data4 quality and performance standards.
The Design Director will take a leadership position within the Data4 Global Infrastructure team to lead the Global implementation of design, with the support of individual development design managers and interfacing with the other key stakeholders across the organization. As such the role also leads the design organization, focusing on people management, standardization, process, reporting, risk management, and escalation.
The function owns the campus design delivery, the cross-organizational design quality, acting as the technical authority across key disciplines (CSA, MEP, controls, networks, and power substation),
and drives design decisions that balance technical performance, economics, schedule, and supply chain availability.
The position can be based in any of our offices in France, Italy, Spain, Poland or Germany.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design delivery function:
- Own high-level, low-level, and campus masterplanning design delivered through various design managers.
- Proactively set out the strategic implementation of the design delivery both internally and with supply chain.
- Act as technical authority: Provide product implementation expertise across CSA, MEP, controls, networks, and power substations.
- Client: Interface with the Client during the sales cycle and during the delivery of the data centre.
- Authorities: Lead the design permitting process, interfacing with local permitting bodies to ensure permitting constraints are met and ultimately ensure permits for construction are granted.
- Ensure design quality & perfor