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Why WWT?

World Wide Technology (WWT) strives to make a new world happen. WWT's work benefits clients and partners as much as it does its people and community across the globe.

Founded in 1990, WWT brings together strategy, deep technical expertise and world-class partnerships to help public and private sector organizations design, build and scale intelligent AI, digital, cybersecurity, cloud and infrastructure solutions. Through its Advanced Technology Center (ATC)-a collaborative ecosystem featuring state-of-the-art hardware and software-WWT enables clients and partners to conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology and then deploy solutions at scale using its global integration and distributions capabilities.

With more than 14,000 team members and over 60 locations globally, WWT's culture-grounded in core values and leadership philosophies-has been recognized by Fortune® and Great Place to Work for its commitment to innovation, trust and creating a great place to work for all. WWT provides products and services to large enterprise, global service provider and public sector clients in up to 130 countries across six continents. Softchoice, a World Wide Technology company, supports commercial and SMB markets in the U.S. and Canada.

Want to work with highly motivated individuals on high-performance teams? Join WWT today!

What is the Facilities, Infrastructure & Technology (FIT) practice and why join?

Within WWT's Technical Delivery & Engineering organization, FIT is our newest advisory capability, built at the intersection of the physical and digital data center. As AI factories push facilities beyond traditional limits - liquid-cooled racks exceeding 100kW, gigawatt-scale campuses, compressed construction timelines - our clients need advisors fluent in both the building and the architecture it must serve. FIT advises client executives across the data center lifecycle, from site readiness through commissioning, on active engagements around the world. You will be the founding member of this practice.

Position Overview

The Principal Advisor, Data Center Facilities serves as WWT's senior client advisor and practice builder for data center facilities on strategic AI infrastructure engagements. This is an advisory and owner's-representative role - WWT does not act as engineer-of-record - carrying director-level expectations for leadership, business acumen, and client influence. This role is accountable for:

+ Advising client executives on data center buildouts - primarily greenfield, with selected retrofit-for-AI-density work - spanning power, cooling, physical floor planning, fire suppression, and construction readiness for state-of-the-art high-performance architectures.

+ Inspecting and qualifying trade partners, and collaborating with facility and technology OEMs, to ensure buildouts meet design intent, schedule, and quality standards.

+ Founding and growing the FIT practice: methodology, offerings, and a committed team of facilities discipline architects hired within the first year.

The Principal Advisor operates at the intersection of construction and computing - translating high-performance architecture requirements into facility realities, and facility constraints into architecture decisions - while building the trusted executive relationships that anchor long-term client partnerships. You will step into multiple active global engagements from day one.

Key Responsibilities

Client Leadership

+ Serve as trusted facilities advisor to client executives (CIO, CTO, COO, heads of infrastructure and real estate), translating ambiguous requirements into actionable facility roadmaps.

+ Lead facility readiness assessments, design reviews, and executive workshops; own recommendations and their outcomes.

+ Act as executive sponsor for facilities workstreams on strategic engagements.

Facilities Advisory & Solution Architecture

+ Assess and advise on utility power and electrical distribution, air and liquid cooling architectures, white space and floor planning, fire suppression and life safety, and construction sequencing and commissioning.

+ Architect integrated facility solutions in partnership with WWT's AI, networking, and infrastructure teams - bridging IT loads to facility capabilities.

+ Establish governance models, success criteria, and risk management approaches for facilities workstreams within larger engagements.

+ Maintain currency with AI-density reference architectures and facility OEM ecosystems.

Trade Partner & Vendor Oversight

+ Evaluate, qualify, and oversee general contractors, MEP subcontractors, engineering firms, and commissioning agents on client buildouts.

+ Review designs, plans, deliverables, and project progress to ensure alignment with customer objectives and industry best practices.

+ Identify risks, gaps, and quality concerns and proactively drive corrective actions.

+ Build co-delivery relationships with facility OEMs and A&E and commissioning partners.

Practice Building & Talent

+ Develop FIT methodology, deliverable standards, and engagement playbooks; contribute practice IP and accelerators.

+ Support pursuit teams: scope engagements, shape proposals, and price advisory work.

+ Recruit, hire, and lead a team of facilities discipline architects (electrical, mechanical/HVAC, plumbing/piping); represent WWT in industry forums.

Qualifications and Requirements

_If your experience_ _doesn't_ _match every preferred qualification_ _below_ _but you know this work, we encourage you to apply._

Required

+ Significant experience (typically 12+ years) in data center / mission-critical facilities, with direct accountability for major phases of new-build data center projects (design, design review, construction oversight, or commissioning). Data center-specific experience is required; general commercial construction alone does not qualify.

+ Expert-level command of liquid cooling for high-density environments (direct-to-chip and rear-door, CDUs, coolant distribution, and the controls and telemetry around them), with strong working fluency across electrical/power distribution, floor planning, and fire suppression.

+ Ability to read, review, and red-line MEP designs and one-line diagrams, and to find the flaw in a cooling schematic or power design personally.

+ Experience qualifying and overseeing trade partners (MEP subcontractors, engineering firms, commissioning agents), and advising senior stakeholders in a consulting, advisory, owner's-representative, or owner-side capacity.

+ Working knowledge of high-density AI/HPC facility requirements, including liquid cooling and high-density power distribution at 60-150 kW per rack and beyond.

+ Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional, military, or trade experience.

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