[Hiring] Data Center Design and Construction Expert @Waterplan

Role Description

Are you passionate about making a significant impact on one of our generation's most pressing environmental challenges? Join us in creating and leading a new category in the Climate Tech industry.

You'll be our in-house data centre design authority — the person who makes Civarea speak the language of development teams. You'll turn site constraints (power, water, utilities, zoning, planning) into workable campus layouts and buildability verdicts, and shape the product that's replacing Phase-1 desktop due diligence.

What you'll do

• Lead master planning and early-stage design assessments on real sites our clients are evaluating: test-fits, setbacks, buildable envelopes, campus layouts, BOD-0/BOD-1 level deliverables.
• Translate power, utilities, water and planning constraints into clear design implications — the "can you build here, what, and why" behind every screening.
• Sit with clients' development, site selection and design teams as the technical peer in the room.
• Work daily with product and engineering to encode your expertise into Civarea: which layers matter, which thresholds kill a site, what a decision-grade report must contain.
• Build the zoning, permitting and design data playbook per market (UK, Germany, Iberia, Nordics and beyond).
• Help us win and deliver design-stage pilots with operators and developers across EMEA and the US.

Qualifications

• Several years in data centre (or mission-critical / industrial) site selection, feasibility, master planning or early design — at a hyperscaler, specialist developer, operator or leading consultancy.
• Hands-on campus master planning: you've produced or led test-fits, concept layouts and feasibility studies, not just reviewed them.
• Fluency in the constraints that drive siting: power availability, utilities, water, zoning and planning regimes.
• Comfort coordinating architects and engineers — and challenging them.
• Builder mentality: you want your knowledge to live in a product used on hundreds of sites, not in one project at a time.
• Based in London or ready to be, with willingness to visit sites and clients across EMEA.

Requirements

• Direct BOD / due diligence deliverable experience for a hyperscaler or colo.
• GIS fluency; planning and permitting experience in the UK, Germany or the Nordics.
• Experience working alongside software or data teams.

Benefits

• Impactful Mission: Contribute to a meaningful cause with a clear vision of fostering a water-secure future.
• Dynamic Team: Work alongside a talented and passionate team dedicated to making a difference.
• Growth Opportunity: Be at the forefront of our industry's growth, shaping the future of water security and sustainability.
• Culture & Values: Enjoy a remote working environment with unlimited PTO, rooted in our core values of Long-Term Thinking, Iterative Excellence, Thoughtful Discussion, Making Others Successful, and Guided by Nature.
• Diversity & Inclusion: Thrive in a workplace that champions diversity and inclusivity at every step of our journey.