# Electrical Technical Director - Mission Critical (Data Centres)

About the Role We are seeking an experienced Electrical Technical Director to join our Global Data Centre Design Team (Mission Critical), based in our UAE offices. 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. You 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. This 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. In addition to project leadership, you will play a key role in developing engineering capability across the business, mentoring senior engineers, promoting technical excellence, and contrib

- **Id**: 3477120
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ghd-electrical-technical-director-mission-critical-data-centres>
- **Role**: Leadership
- **Role family**: Leadership
- **Seniority**: head
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- **Countries**: AE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-29T13:43:20Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-29
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T20:32:35Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 15
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 8163
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Architecture, Engineering Services, Construction

## Company

- **Id**: 1821071
- **Name**: GHD
- **Domain**: ghd.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ghd-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Oracle

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 149
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.758
- **Repost share**: 0.013
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 31
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 71000
- **Max usd**: 161000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: global_role_cell_scaled_by_country
- **Sample n**: 4188

## Technologies

- **ETAP** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 15

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 15
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United Arab Emirates** — Iso: AE; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-29T19:08:49Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 57
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 13
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:mid, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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