[Hiring] Principal MEP Advisor & Design Authority @World Wide Technology Holding

Role Description

The Principal Advisor, Data Center Facilities serves as WWT's senior client advisor and practice builder for data center facilities on strategic AI infrastructure engagements. This is an advisory and owner's-representative role — WWT does not act as engineer-of-record — carrying director-level expectations for leadership, business acumen, and client influence. This role is accountable for:

• Advising client executives on data center buildouts — primarily greenfield, with selected retrofit-for-AI-density work — spanning power, cooling, physical floor planning, fire suppression, and construction readiness for state-of-the-art high-performance architectures.
• Inspecting and qualifying trade partners, and collaborating with facility and technology OEMs, to ensure buildouts meet design intent, schedule, and quality standards.
• Founding and growing the FIT practice: methodology, offerings, and a committed team of facilities discipline architects hired within the first year.

The Principal Advisor operates at the intersection of construction and computing — translating high-performance architecture requirements into facility realities, and facility constraints into architecture decisions — while building the trusted executive relationships that anchor long-term client partnerships. You will step into multiple active global engagements from day one.

Qualifications

• Significant experience (typically 12+ years) in data center / mission-critical facilities, with direct accountability for major phases of new-build data center projects (design, design review, construction oversight, or commissioning).
• Expert-level command of liquid cooling for high-density environments (direct-to-chip and rear-door, CDUs, coolant distribution, and the controls and telemetry around them).
• Ability to read, review, and red-line MEP designs and one-line diagrams, and to find the flaw in a cooling schematic or power design personally.
• Experience qualifying and overseeing trade partners (MEP subcontractors, engineering firms, commissioning agents), and advising senior stakeholders in a consulting, advisory, owner's-representative, or owner-side capacity.
• Working knowledge of high-density AI/HPC facility requirements, including liquid cooling and high-density power distribution at 60-150 kW per rack and beyond.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional, military, or trade experience.

Requirements

• Recent, direct experience on liquid-cooled, high-density (60 kW+ per rack) designs, ideally NVL72-class deployments.
• Electrical/power depth as a second discipline alongside cooling.
• Experience across multiple international code jurisdictions (US and APAC).
• Familiarity with commissioning levels (L1-L5) and construction-lifecycle quality assurance.
• Credentials such as PE license, Uptime Institute ATD/ATS, DCEP, CDCDP, or ASHRAE participation.
• Demonstrated success standing up a team, practice, or program.
• Travel: Up to 30%, including international.

Benefits

• Health and Wellbeing: Health (Medical & Prescription), Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers (MO & IL), Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program.
• Financial Benefits: Competitive Pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Tuition Reimbursement.
• Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Medical Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement, Day of Caring.
• Additional Perks: Family Planning Benefits, Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Voluntary Supplemental Accident/Illness/Hospital, Voluntary ID Theft, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program.