ABOUT THE ROLE

The Design Manager is accountable for the end-to-end design of data centres and campus infrastructure projects, ensuring solutions meet Data4’s design standards, customer requirements, programme constraints, and Data4 quality and performance standards. The role owns the campus design delivery. The role owns the cross organizational design quality, acting as the technical authority across key disciplines (CSA, MEP, controls, networks, and power substation), and drives design decisions that balance technical performance, economics, schedule, and supply chain availability.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead design delivery: Own high-level, low-level, and campus master planning design.
Act as technical authority: Provide product implementation expertise across CSA, MEP, controls, networks, and power substations.
Client: Interface with the Client during the sales cycle and during the delivery of the data centre.
Authorities: Lead the design permitting process, interfacing with local permitting bodies ensuring permitting constraints are met,



and ultimately ensuring permits for constructiton are granted.
Ensure design quality & performance: Guarantee Max IT capacity and SLA compliance
Deliver efficiency targets (PUE, WUE)
Deliver a design which meets permitting requirements
Develop a design which is optimized to meet the Data4 and Client’s SLA performance requirements
Define and optimise technical solutions: Set equipment requirements with programme, delivery, and supply chain
Optimise design to target cost metrics
Drive modular / prefabricated design approaches
Select and validate vendors: Support vendor selection
Validate technical specifications
Support constructability: Define construction methods
Ensure design is buildable and aligned with delivery constraints
Coordinate commissioning readiness: Interface with commissioning requireemts to Define, review, and validate commissioning protocols are included for execution
Engage with customers & stakeholders: Support

📌 Design Manager – Italy (Milano)
🏢 DATA4 Group
📍 Milano