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Senior Design Manager, Data Centers

Iron Mountain 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

$123,500 - $164,700 Full-time Senior

Lead end-to-end design delivery for major data center developments, customer deployments, expansions, and complex upgrades, from concept through construction, commissioning, and handover. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders, manage design risks and value engineering, and mentor Design Managers while aligning decisions with safety, customer, commercial, resilience, and sustainability goals.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end design delivery for major data center developments, customer deployments, expansions, and complex upgrades, from concept through construction, commissioning, and handover. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams and stakeholders, manage design risks and value engineering, and mentor Design Managers while aligning decisions with safety, customer, commercial, resilience, and sustainability goals.

Requirements

  • Typically requires 10 or more years of substantial experience with complex data center or mission-critical capital projects, along with deep knowledge of critical-facility systems, design governance, codes, permitting, and compliance. Requires a four-year degree in Architecture, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline; U.S. citizenship; strong commercial and leadership capabilities; and willingness to travel up to 25%.

Benefits

  • Competitive Compensation
  • Paid Time Off
  • Holiday Schedules
  • Flexible Work Options
  • Health Plans
  • Wellness Plans
  • Retirement Plans
  • Continuous Learning
  • Career Growth Opportunities

Key Skills

Leadership Mentoring Cross‑functional coordination Design governance Risk management Value engineering Stakeholder partnership Data center design Mechanical engineering knowledge Electrical engineering knowledge Architectural design principles Project lifecycle management Construction oversight Commissioning processes Regulatory compliance Code and permitting knowledge Commercial capabilities Strategic decision making Safety focus Customer focus Resilience planning Sustainability awareness Communication Problem solving Budget awareness Schedule management Travel coordination U.S. citizenship requirement Technical documentation Design reporting

About Iron Mountain

In the era of AI, your data is your advantage. Yet too often it remains untapped: disconnected from systems, underutilized, untrained, and exposed to risk. Iron Mountain is the trusted partner for organizations of all sizes to unlock what’s possible, transforming information into intelligence and assets into advantage. How? By seamlessly managing digital and physical assets of all kinds across their lifecycle—making them visible, secure, accessible, and AI-ready. From payments to pathology, mortgages to media, fine art to IT, we’ve helped more than 240,000 customers around the world, including 95% of the Fortune 1000, unlock more value from what’s already within reach. All with unparalleled security, governance, and sustainability at every step. What can we unlock together?

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