Specialist Consultant - Data Centre

The primary responsibility of the position is to consult with the clients’ design leads of various projects and work with internal teams to create strategies, project plans to address the business needs.  The candidate should be able to providing multi-disciplinary advise on all aspects of infrastructure and related technology components on Data Centre and Industrial projects.Responsibilities:Contributes to driving the various design and costing teams to identify and evaluate alternative architectures and the trade-offs in cost, performance and scalability.Support a program or project by assisting the client to prepare technical plans and application of design principles that comply with enterprise and solution architecture standards.Takes responsibility for understanding the client requirements, analysis of the design and proactively assist in problem resolution.Assists the client as additional technical oversight of the detail design drawings and specifications for the Data Centre components, ratings and interfaces including the review of the design components presented by the technical design teams. Ensures the design team is using appropriate modelling techniques following agreed architectures, design standards, patterns and methodology.Assist the client’s appointed PM and QS team as technical advisor.Contribute to commercial assessment of projects from pre-feasibility through to construction.Assist the project team in the contract management of the contractors and various discipline specific subcontractors.Assist with the procurement process of the Owner Furnished Capital Equipment.Attend technical design reviews.Monitors the external environment to gather intelligence on emerging technologies. Do site visits as required to assist the site team to ensure success of all projects. This includes partial presence on site during critical stages of a project.Additional oversight review of contractor documentation during the lifetime of the project. Requirements Excellent communication skills both verbal and written.Ability to develop and leverage their knowledge of reference architectures.Ability to maintain knowledge of trends and development in technology domains.Project or Program Management experience would be preferred.Data Centre experience and training would be beneficial.Proven client engagement and consulting experience coupled with solid experience in client needs assessment and change management.Experience working in an agile development environment