Senior Design Director – Digital Infrastructure, Mission Critical Facilities

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🌶️ New Mexico – Remote

🌶️ New Mexico – Remote

💵 $170k - $225k / year

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AECOM

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

AECOM is the world's trusted infrastructure consulting firm that partners with clients to deliver innovative solutions to the most complex challenges while creating legacies for generations to come. Focused on equity, diversity, and inclusion, AECOM leverages technical expertise and digital innovation to drive transformative outcomes in infrastructure development, sustainability, and social systems. The company provides a wide range of services, including architecture & design, construction management, engineering, and environmental services across various markets such as transportation, energy, healthcare, and national governments. With a strong emphasis on sustainability, technical excellence, and community impact, AECOM is committed to building a better world.

📋 Description

• Lead the planning, design, and delivery of complex digital infrastructure, mission-critical, utility, and large-scale infrastructure programs • Provide executive leadership for multidisciplinary teams delivering hyperscale data centers, mission-critical facilities, telecommunications infrastructure, utility systems, network operations facilities, cable landing stations, and associated infrastructure developments • Guide projects from site selection and due diligence through design, construction, commissioning, and operational readiness • Lead multidisciplinary design teams across all project phases • Coordinate architecture, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection, telecommunications, environmental, and commissioning disciplines • Ensure design integration, quality, constructability, resilience, and operational excellence • Lead technical design reviews and executive stakeholder workshops • Manage large and complex programs from planning through commissioning • Oversee project scope, budget, schedule, quality, and risk • Identify project delivery challenges and develop mitigation strategies • Support procurement, contractor coordination, and construction administration • Serve as executive-level client lead and maintain relationships with technology providers, utilities, infrastructure developers, public agencies, and institutional clients • Lead strategic account growth and business development activities • Support major pursuits and proposal efforts • Provide leadership for AI infrastructure campuses, cable landing stations, network operations centers, utility and power infrastructure, fiber and telecommunications networks, industrial and technology campuses, and broadband and connectivity infrastructure • Mentor project managers, design managers, and technical leaders • Build and grow a high-performing multidisciplinary delivery team • Support recruitment and succession planning activities • Travel domestically and internationally for client meetings, site assessments, design workshops, project milestones, and construction activities as required

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Architecture, or related discipline + 8 years of relevant experience, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education • 8+ years of experience managing complex infrastructure, telecommunications, mission-critical, utility, or data center projects • Experience leading multidisciplinary project teams and coordinating multiple stakeholders • Demonstrated success managing project budgets, schedules, and client relationships • Professional Engineer (PE) license or equivalent professional credential preferred • Experience delivering data centers, telecommunications facilities, broadband networks, fiber infrastructure, utility infrastructure, mission-critical facilities, or related large-scale infrastructure programs preferred • Knowledge of submarine cable systems, cable landing stations, dark fiber networks, carrier-neutral facilities, or long-haul communications infrastructure preferred • Experience supporting international projects and geographically distributed teams preferred • Familiarity with permitting, environmental compliance, utility coordination, and regulatory processes preferred • Experience using BIM/Revit, Civil 3D, Bluebeam, GIS, or related design and collaboration platforms preferred • Strong business development, proposal management, and client engagement experience preferred • Proven ability to mentor staff and lead high-performing teams preferred • Must be authorized to work in the United States; sponsorship for US employment authorization is not available now or in the future

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits • Life and AD&D insurance • Disability benefits • Paid time off • Leaves of absence • Voluntary benefits and perks • Flexible work options • Well-being resources • Employee assistance program • Business travel insurance • Service recognition awards • Retirement savings plan • Employee stock purchase plan • Award-winning training and development programs • In-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location