Senior Associate, Design Engineering

Position Title: Senior Associate, Design Engineering

Location: Singapore

Your role 

The Senior Associate, Design Engineering is designated to a portfolio of data centres and is responsible for processing, managing, and developing design drawings and associated technical engineering documents for all commercial opportunities related to that site. For Design and Engineered Solutions, a Solution Engineer will work in conjunction with the Design Engineer and manage any pre-sale technical engagement required with the customer.

What you’ll do 

• Processing, managing, and developing the design drawings and documentation for all commercial projects within designated data centres and support across other data centres in sub-region where needed.
• Assisting the Platform Engineering team in producing contract drawings for Pre-Sales support and delivering them to the Sales team as part of contract documentation.
• Provide an assessment on power, cooling, and square meter availability at the Initial Quote phase.
• Creating technical designs for customer lifecycle (new and existing) activities and amendments to
• ensure customer requirements and design artefacts are completed within agreed parameters.
• Generating a Technical Handover document, including Computer-Aided Design (CAD) layouts,
• customer rack layouts, floor layout plans, and Bill of Materials for installations.
• Ensuring adherence to the Whitespace Design and Engineering Guidelines, following corporate design principles related to standardization of power, cooling, and space in the designs.
• Creating Work Orders to instruct Implementation Managers, remote hands and vendors on task execution against solution design.
• Processing all design activities for customer life cycle orders (day two) as it relates to MACDs and partial/full terminations.
• Updating facility floor plans using Auto-Computer Aided Design (ACAD) and Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software.
• Updating and maintaining inventory systems (e.g. FNT, OpsView, etc.) for Space and Power to ensuring data integrity and completeness.
• Update connectivity and cable tie records using DCIM (Data Center Infrastructure Management) software.
• Updating records of customers’ power circuits using company DCIM software.
• Adhering to the QHSSE (Quality, Health, Safety, Security & Environment) Responsibilities Matrix.
• Providing support during audits at DLR sites, ensuring data integrity and alignment issues.
• Taking responsibility for administrative and documentation management within the Platform Engineering function.
• Determine customer opportunity density cooling limits and perform CFD when needed.
• Coordinate with the Capacity Planning team for the need to add incremental space, power and connectivity installed capacity to support new customer transactions (Capacity Management).
• Managing ROFR/ROFO space in coordination with commercial management team (Capacity Management).
• Assisting Solution Engineers with pre-sales technical inquiries and design activities.
• Engage in training programs, workshops and self-directed learning to enhance skills and knowledge relevant to the role.
• Support sub-regional initiatives and activities to be an effective member of the cross-functional team.
• Engaging in customer interactions to support Sales and Solutions Engineers when required.
• Identify opportunities for process enhancement, suggesting improvements that contribute to efficiency and effectiveness.
• Assist in onboarding new team members, sharing knowledge and helping them integrate into the team and company culture.
• Assist with sustainability and environmental initiatives, aligning with the company’s commitment to responsible practice.
• And many more.

What you’ll need

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, preferably electrical or mechanical.
• Significant years of engineering experience in mission-critical environments, preferably including data centers.
• Strong knowledge of Auto-Computer Aided Design (ACAD).
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Visio, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Explorer) and/or equivalent
• Experience of data centre design, business critical infrastructure management and data centre
• environment awareness.
• Electrical, Mechanical, Network or Operational data centre experience is a benefit.
• Rigorous attention to detail and application of standards and processes.
• Must be a self-starter, proactive, flexible, and able to work within deadlines.
• Ability to work on multiple tasks/projects.
• Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to resolve customer design issues effectively.
• Must be detail oriented with excellent communications, interpersonal and oral/written presentation skills.
• Ability to travel and work onsite
• Customer centricity and natural drive to work with other areas of the business to provide the customer with the best possible outcome.
• Collaboration: Is a true Team player that connects people and unites them to do the right things for our customers (without the authority to instruct them to do so)

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. 

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. 

Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.

Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.