[Hiring] Director, CSA Engineering @Volta

Role Description

We are looking for a Director, Civil, Structural and Architectural (CSA) Engineering to be Volta's subject matter expert and design authority for CSA engineering across our global portfolio of AI factories. You will report directly to the Senior Director, Infrastructure Engineering within the Delivery organisation.

You will fully own all CSA engineering input across the portfolio from Volta's design standards, Reference Design and running projects. This covers site civil works, ground engineering and foundations, building structures, and architecture, including building layouts, envelope and architectural design that is compliant with fire and life safety requirements. You will move easily between technical detail and strategic perspective, weighing engineering decisions against business priorities. As the business scales, you will build and lead the CSA engineering team.

What You Will Do

• Act as Volta's CSA subject matter expert and design authority, owning all civil, structural and architectural input across every AI factory in EMEA and AMER from concept through to construction and handover.
• Develop, deploy and maintain Volta's CSA design standards, specifications and basis of design documents for all civil, structural and architectural systems, ensuring consistent application across every project and region.
• Provide the CSA input to Volta's Reference Design for AI factory infrastructure, balancing performance, cost, speed of delivery, constructability and scalability.
• Own Volta's building and site architecture, including structural systems, floor and roof loading strategy, plant yards, building envelope and data hall layouts.
• Provide geotechnical due diligence input to site selection, supporting live projects with CSA expertise from concept through detailed design, permitting, construction and handover.
• Track the evolution of AI hardware and construction methods, translating it into CSA standards that keep Volta's AI factories ready for next generation compute.
• Lead CSA design reviews and technical assurance, acting as design authority for any departure from the CSA standard.
• Work in sync with SMEs across other disciplines, optimizing the overall design for safety, speed of delivery and cost.
• Work with Procurement to standardise specifications for structural steel, precast concrete, cladding, roofing and modular building systems.
• Champion safety in design, fire and life safety compliance, reliability, maintainability and embodied carbon.
• Embed lessons learned from delivery and operations back into the CSA standards.
• Direct the CSA scope of external design partners, mentor engineers and build out the CSA engineering team as the pipeline grows.
• Provide CSA engineering status, risk and decision reporting to the Senior Director, Infrastructure Engineering.

Qualifications

• A degree in civil or structural engineering or architecture, with chartered or professional status (for example CEng, PE, SE or registered architect) preferred.
• Significant experience in data centre or mission critical CSA engineering, including senior technical leadership of civil, structural or architectural design on large scale programmes.
• Deep technical expertise in at least one of civil, structural or architectural design, with a strong working knowledge across all three.
• A track record developing and deploying CSA design standards, reference designs or basis of design documents for a hyperscale, colocation or large scale data centre developer.
• Hands on experience designing and delivering buildings for high density and liquid cooled AI and HPC workloads.
• Familiarity with the codes and standards that govern data centre CSA design in Europe and North America.
• Strong commercial judgement, balancing capex, schedule, reliability and operability in CSA design decisions.
• Confident communication, able to explain complex technical trade offs clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A collaborative style that builds trust with peers across partner teams.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on the work you do here, not your previous salary.
• Equity in Volta, giving you the opportunity to share in the company's long-term success.
• Retirement/pension contributions.
• Comprehensive health, wellbeing and insurance benefits.
• Generous number of vacation days each year.