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This is a senior leadership role for a highly accomplished engineer with extensive experience in the design, technical leadership, and delivery of hyperscale, AI, and mission-critical data centre facilities.\nYou will provide technical leadership across a portfolio of complex data centre projects, guiding multidisciplinary teams through all stages of delivery while shaping the future direction of electrical engineering within our global data centre practice.\nThis role offers the opportunity to influence some of the world's most advanced AI and hyperscale data centre developments. You will act as a trusted advisor to clients, support business development initiatives, help secure new opportunities, drive innovation, and ensure the consistent delivery of technically excellent, resilient, sustainable, and commercially successful solutions.\nIn addition to project leadership, you will play a key role in developing engineering capability across the business, mentoring senior engineers, promoting technical excellence, and contributing to the growth of our rapidly expanding mission critical sector.\nKey Responsibilities\nProvide technical leadership and governance across multiple mission critical and data centre projects globally.\nDefine and oversee electrical engineering strategies for hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, and AI-driven data centre developments.\nLead the development and review of resilient electrical power architectures, including utility connections, HV/MV/LV distribution systems, transformers, switchgear, UPS systems, standby generation, battery 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