At EY, you’ll have the chance to build a career as unique as you are, with the global scale, support, inclusive culture and technology to become the best version of you. And we’re counting on your unique voice and perspective to help EY become even better, too. Join us and build an exceptional experience for yourself, and a better working world for all.

Job Title: DC Facility Architect

Job Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Data Center Facility Architect with deep specialization in data center facility design, engineering, compliance, and resilience. This role is focused exclusively on facility (passive) infrastructure architecture, covering the planning, assessment, design, and governance of enterprise and co-location data center facilities.

The ideal candidate will bring strong architectural, advisory, and assessment experience across power, cooling, space, cabling, fire protection, physical security, tiering standards, and regulatory compliance. A critical requirement is the ability to design audit-ready, regulator-aligned data center facilities that meet global and regional compliance mandates.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture and design of data center and co-location facilities, ensuring high availability, resilience, energy efficiency, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Conduct data center facility assessments and site audits, covering power distribution, UPS and DG redundancy, cooling and HVAC systems, airflow management, rack layouts, cabling pathways, and capacity optimisation.
• Define and validate data center facility layouts, rack elevation plans, containment strategies, and structured cabling designs in line with global standards.
• Design facilities aligned to Uptime Institute Tier I–IV, TIA-942, and equivalent international data center standards.
• Architect power and cooling strategies to support current and future workload density requirements, including high-density and emerging cooling models.
• Embed physical security, safety, and regulatory controls into facility designs, ensuring audit readiness and compliance with applicable standards.
• Lead data center consolidation, exit, relocation, and co-location transition initiatives from a facility and risk perspective.
• Architect facility-level DR and BCP designs, including secondary sites, redundancy models, and failover readiness aligned to business continuity requirements.
• Collaborate with IT infrastructure, network, cloud, and DR teams to translate IT workload requirements into facility design inputs (power, cooling, space, availability).
• Produce and govern facility architecture documentation, including design drawings, capacity models, risk assessments, compliance mappings, and audit artefacts.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electronics, or a related discipline; Master’s degree preferred.
• 12–15 years of experience in data center facility architecture, engineering, or design, with enterprise-scale or multi-site delivery experience.
• Deep expertise in data center facility systems, including:
• Power distribution, UPS, DG sets, ATS/STS
• Cooling and HVAC (CRAC/CRAH, chilled water, containment)
• Fire detection and suppression systems (VESDA, gas-based suppression)
• Structured cabling, pathways, and physical layouts
• Racks, floor loading, and space planning
• BMS and DCIM integration
• Strong experience designing facilities aligned to global data center standards and tiering models (Tier I–IV).
• Proven capability in facility audits, site readiness assessments, capacity planning, and risk analysis.
• Demonstrated experience embedding physical security and compliance controls aligned to ISO 27001 (physical controls), SOC, PCI-DSS (facility scope), CERT-In, DPDPA, and applicable local regulations.
• Working knowledge of IT infrastructure requirements (power density, cooling load, redundancy expectations) strictly as inputs to facility design, not as solution ownership.
• Experience coordinating with IT, network, cloud, and DR teams to ensure facility designs support availability and resilience objectives.
• Strong documentation, governance, and architectural decision-making skills.

Preferred Certifications

• CDCP, CDCS, CDCE (Data Center Facility Certifications)
• Uptime Institute Accredited Tier Designer (ATD)
• BICSI certifications (for cabling and pathways)
• ITIL or TOGAF (for architectural governance exposure)

Key Competencies

• Strong architectural judgment with a facility-first design mindset.
• Deep understanding of data center risk, resilience, and compliance requirements.
• Ability to translate technical facility designs into audit-ready, regulator-aligned outcomes.
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills, including engagement with facilities, compliance, security, and IT leadership teams.
• Experience operating in large-scale, multi-site, and regulated data center environments.

EY | Building a better working world

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.