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Volta is building a vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform with a mission to make compute as dependable and available as electricity. Backed by a $10B strategic partnership with a leading frontier AI lab, Series A funding from Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, the company is rapidly scaling from 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York.
You will own and lead the delivery of coordinated, multidisciplinary designs for Volta's AI factory projects across EMEA. You will be accountable for project design delivery from initial brief through detailed design, and remain closely engaged with the Delivery team through procurement, construction, commissioning and handover. Your core responsibilities include:
• Own design delivery from brief through detailed design, ensuring deliverables meet scope, quality, budget and programme requirements
• Establish and maintain project design briefs with customers, Product, Engineering, Operations and Delivery teams
• Develop and manage design delivery programmes, aligning design packages, reviews and approvals with key milestones
• Lead and coordinate external design partners across all disciplines, setting clear scopes and managing performance
• Manage application of Volta's Reference Design and engineering standards to each project, coordinating site-specific adaptations
• Lead multidisciplinary design coordination reviews, resolving interfaces between civil, structural, architectural, mechanical, electrical, controls and GPU compute infrastructure
• Act as principal point of coordination for project design matters, working with customers and internal stakeholders
• Plan and lead design reviews and stage gates, tracking deliverables, comments and approvals
• Work with Project Controls, Delivery and Procurement teams to define design package boundaries and support technical tender evaluations
• Embed construction sequencing, prefabrication, modular delivery and maintainability into design
• Manage design changes through clear change control processes
• Remain engaged during construction, coordinating technical queries and design clarifications
• Work with Operations and commissioning teams to incorporate testing and handover requirements
• Champion health and safety throughout design delivery
• Maintain visibility of design risks, assumptions and outstanding decisions, escalating issues early
You will work closely with Volta's Product, Technology, Corporate Development, Engineering, Operations and Delivery teams, translating requirements into clear project design briefs and moving easily between technical detail and the wider project picture. You will balance performance, reliability, cost, speed of delivery and operability while liaising with customer teams to incorporate their requirements.
REQUIREMENTS:
• Degree in engineering, architecture, construction or equivalent relevant experience
• Significant experience managing multidisciplinary design delivery for large-scale data centres, AI factories or similarly complex infrastructure
• Track record of taking projects from concept through detailed design and supporting procurement, construction, commissioning and handover
• Strong understanding of interfaces between building infrastructure, power, cooling, controls and compute, including requirements of high-density AI and GPU facilities
• Experience translating customer, product and operational requirements into clear design briefs and coordinated deliverables
• Proven ability to lead external consultants and coordinate internal technical specialists, suppliers and contractors
• Experience managing design programmes, consultant scopes and fees, stage gate reviews, design changes and technical information release
• Understanding of how reference designs are adapted to site conditions and local requirements while maintaining portfolio consistency
• Strong commercial judgement balancing design quality, capex, schedule, constructability, reliability and operability
• Familiarity with BIM coordination, common data environments and document control processes
• Experience integrating offsite manufacturing, prefabrication and DFMA into coordinated project designs
• Confident communication able to explain design issues and trade-offs to customers, technical teams and senior stakeholders
• Collaborative and accountable approach with ability to resolve competing priorities and drive decisions to closure
• Willingness to travel to project sites, customer meetings and design partner locations across EMEA
