The position is open across Bengaluru, Mumbai, Chennai, and Gurgaon.
Role purpose
- Lead the technical delivery and reputation of Egis's data centre mechanical design offer across India
- Act as the senior mechanical authority on hyperscale and colocation programmes, from concept through to handover
- Combine technical leadership with client engagement, bid support and P&L accountability
Key responsibilities
- Provide mechanical discipline leadership on hyperscale and colocation data centre projects
- Set and uphold design standards, QA/QC and technical governance
- Lead client presentations, design reviews and technical interviews at senior level
- Support bids and proposals, including strategy, scope, resourcing and fee build up
- Own P&L performance for the mechanical discipline: utilisation, margin, forecasting and resource planning
- Coach, mentor and develop senior engineers and team leads
- Work with BIM and digital teams to drive coordinated, efficient delivery
- Build relationships with hyperscalers, colocation operators, developers and contractors
Discipline focus: Mechanical
- Cooling strategy for hyperscale and colocation facilities, including air, hybrid and liquid cooling (direct to chip, immersion)
- Chilled water systems, heat rejection, and water use optimisation
- PUE and WUE performance and energy efficiency
- Resilience concepts (N+1, 2N) and input to testing and commissioning
- Coordination with electrical, architecture, structure and BIM teams
- 18+ years in mechanical or HVAC engineering, with 8+ years in data centres
- Proven delivery of hyperscale and colocation facilities, ideally multi site and multi region
- Prior experience at Director, Associate Director or Technical Director level
- Track record of managing a P&L or significant commercial responsibility
- Excellent presentation, negotiation and interpersonal skills, comfortable with C level and client stakeholders
- Strong coordination skills across multidisciplinary teams, with a working knowledge of BIM
- Chartered or professionally qualified engineer (CEng or equivalent), registered with a relevant professional body
- Degree in mechanical engineering or a related discipline
Desirable
- Middle East data centre experience
- Experience working on international or multicultural teams
- Experience building or scaling a data centre practice
- Chartered Engineer (CE) or equivalent professional certification
- Experience with Building Information Modeling (BIM) projects
- Familiarity with project management tools and methodologies
- Experience in client liaison and stakeholder management
- Knowledge of sustainable design practices and green building standards
- Experience with site inspections and quality assurance verification
- Proven track record of delivering projects on time and within budget
- Ability to adapt to changing project requirements and work in a fast-paced environment
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Commitment to professional development and continuous learning