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Microsoft Datacentre Engineering Senior Design Manager - EMEA 
France, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Le Dévoluy 
341311178

21.01.2025
Qualifications

- Bachelor's Degree AND experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.

· Bachelor's Degree AND Experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.

· Experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.

· Experience reading and/or writing code (e.g., sample documentation, product demos).

- This role requires proficiency in written, reading, and conversational English as all business operations as well as customer communications are conducted in French.

Background Check Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.
Responsibilities

Reporting to the Datacenter Engineering Southern EMEA DM Lead, the Design Manager will be assigned to manage the engineering scope, schedule, and budget for greenfield, brownfield and retrofit engineering / design projects as assigned in France and in other EMEA locations as required. The Design Manager will;

  • manage internal and external resources for the delivery of land technical due diligence, construction permitting, engineering/designing the building shell/core, power, cooling, telecom and controls infrastructure to align with Microsoft IT capacity roadmap for builds and leases.
  • provide design management, technical direction, decision-making and overall leadership for our datacenter architectural / engineering designs.

Knowledge, experience and skills:

  • The candidate must have excellent communication, organization, and leadership skills.
  • Candidates must possess a high level of proficiency in commercial and industrial architecture and engineering with a primary focus on datacenter design.
  • The candidates must also be able to work with other technical and non-technical groups in a fast- paced environment and do so with an even temperament.
  • The candidate must be a person of integrity, be methodical, detailed-oriented with a strong work ethic.
  • Ability to lead teams of engineers in advanced engineering and operational processes and procedures as they relate to large datacenter environments
  • Contract negotiation skills with solid understanding of value-added ideas without compromising safety and quality of deliverables
  • Ability to get things done in fast-paced environment; not easily discouraged; forward looking with open mindset
  • Knowledge of local building codes, regulations, and jurisdictional standards
  • Ability to prepare and present using MS office packages
  • Able to travel domestically and internationally
  • Large scale project experience (100MM per project) delivering Design Build, and Design Bid Build type projects
  • Have good experience in running technical site due diligence programmes
  • Demonstrate a good track record in data centre / mission critical section