Work-Force
Main Purpose of Job: The Technical Consultant will drive design and costing teams in evaluating and selecting alternative architectures, balancing cost, performance, and scalability. You will support projects by preparing technical plans and ensuring compliance with architecture standards, while providing technical oversight and commercial assessment throughout the project lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and Architecture:
- Contribute to identifying and evaluating alternative architectures, considering cost, performance, and scalability trade-offs.
- Assist clients in preparing technical plans and applying design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards.
- Review and oversee detail design drawings and specifications for Data Centre components, ensuring alignment with agreed architectures and design standards.
- Technical Oversight:
- Provide additional technical oversight of design components presented by the technical design teams.
- Ensure appropriate modeling techniques and adherence to design standards, patterns, and methodologies.
- Project Support:
- Act as a technical advisor to the client’s PM and QS teams.
- Contribute to commercial assessments from pre-feasibility through construction phases.
- Assist in contract management and procurement processes, including Owner Furnished Capital Equipment.
- Site and Contractor Management:
- Attend technical design reviews and monitor contractor documentation throughout the project.
- Conduct site visits as required, including partial presence during critical stages of the project.
- Provide oversight and additional review of contractor documentation during the project lifecycle.
- Industry and Technology Awareness:
- Monitor emerging technologies and trends to provide informed recommendations.
- Maintain knowledge of reference architectures and technology domains.
Qualifications:
- Engineering degree or diploma in Built Environment.
- Project or Program Management experience preferred.
- Certified TIA-942 Design Consultant (TIA-942 DCD) is advantageous.
- Data Centre experience and training (e.g., ATD, CDCS, CDCP, CDCE) is beneficial.
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Proven client engagement and consulting experience with solid needs assessment and change management skills.
- Experience working in an agile development environment.
Additional Information: This role involves consulting with clients’ design leads, creating strategies, and project plans to address business needs. The candidate will provide multi-disciplinary advice on all aspects of infrastructure and technology components for Data Centre and Industrial projects.