VP Engineering

Responsibilities

• Engineering Strategy and Technical Leadership
• Define and lead the mission-critical engineering strategy for EMEA, aligned with the CTO EMEA and global product direction
• Establish engineering as a strategic control point for performance, reliability, scalability, and product consistency
• Translate global product frameworks into executable regional engineering standards, reflecting local regulatory, environmental, and power constraints
• Ensure engineering decisions support long-term asset performance, customer requirements, and commercial outcomes
• Act as the senior engineering authority within EMEA leadership discussions and strategic decision-making
• Technical Authority and Engineering Governance
• Serve as the final technical authority for mission-critical engineering across EMEA
• Establish and enforce clear technical governance, decision rights, and escalation pathways
• Ensure all engineering decisions are made with appropriate rigour, cross-functional input, and documented justification
• Lead engineering assurance across all major design decisions, including topology selection, redundancy philosophy, and system integration
• Govern deviations, ensuring any departure from standards is controlled, justified, and approved at the appropriate level
• Maintain discipline in engineering reviews, approvals, and technical sign-off processes
• Design Intent, Performance Integrity, and Assurance
• Own the engineering philosophy, system architecture, and performance criteria for all developments
• Define and validate:
• Electrical and mechanical topology
• Redundancy strategy
• Protection philosophy
• Cooling architecture
• Availability model
• Ensure all engineering designs are supported by robust modelling and analysis, including:
• Short circuit and fault level studies
• Harmonic analysis
• Availability modelling
• Thermal and CFD modelling
• Ensure designs are regulatorily defensible and aligned with planning, environmental, and permitting requirements
• Lead identification and mitigation of technical

Benefits

Additional Information

About Vantage Data Centers Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world's well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands. Job Description Position Overview The Vice President, Mission Critical Engineering - EMEA is the senior technical authority responsible for engineering design integrity, performance assurance, and technical design platform compliance across the EMEA data centre portfolio. Reporting to the CTO EMEA, this role leads Mission Critical Engineering (MCE) as the function accountable for defining, leading, validating, and protecting engineering intent across all projects and product deployments. The role ensures that all engineering solutions are technically correct, regulatorily defensible, aligned with platform standards, and capable of delivering the required levels of reliability, scalability, and performance. This role governs what is built and why , ensuring that engineering decisions are robust, consistent, and aligned to both global product direction and regional constraints. It operates in clear partnership with Design Quality, Commissioning and Management, which govern how the design is delivered , and with Delivery and Operations, which execute and operate the assets. The Vice President is responsible for ensuring that engineering design remains a controlled, disciplined, and value-adding function - preventing performance erosion, unmanaged deviation, and inconsistency across the EMEA portfolio. Role Purpose The purpose of this role is to act as the technical guardian of engineering intent across EMEA by: - Defining and governing mission-critical engineering standards and technical direction - Owning the engineering philosophy, system topology, and performance envelope across all developments - Ensuring all project designs delivered through VDC Design Partners are technically sound, permit-compliant, and aligned with product platform standards - Leading engineering assurance through concept, design, and pre-construction phases - Establishing and enforcing formal design freeze and performance control mechanisms - Preventing degradation of engineering integrity through uncontrolled change or delivery pressures - Embedding engineering consistency, repeatability, and platform discipline across all markets - Supporting delivery and operations through structured technical authority at key intervention points - Leading Centre of Excellence Teams responsible for driving technical OFCI EMEA product updates and improving on BCO and TCO targets - Driving Value Engineering delivery, and operations through structured technical authority at key intervention points

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