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DC Design Manager for Region (AMER), Data Center Engineering

Amazon· Data Center Engineering
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USA, TX, Austin, USA, WA, Seattle$116.8k - $160kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

AWS Infrastructure Services design, plan, deliver, and operate AWS global infrastructure. Regional Design Manager responsible for leading and standardizing data center designs across the Americas, driving design delivery, and collaborating with internal teams, external consultants, and regulators.

Responsibilities

  • Lead project teams of discipline leads to deliver quality and globally consistent data center designs across Americas within schedule and cost constraints while maintaining a high level of quality.
  • Able to influence internal stakeholders, internal customers (operations), and external consultants to address program wide design changes
  • Manage escalations from the design team and collaborate with procurement, construction and external consultants
  • Effectively communicate with AWS Leadership and external project partners, including the creation, tracking & reporting of metrics related to schedule, cost, and quality Throughout the lifecycle of the project.
  • Think outside of the box to find innovative solutions prior to and during the construction process to reduce contract change orders without negative impacts on quality or reliability.
  • Drive speed, quality, and simplification by eliminating rework loops, reducing and automating manual work and hand-offs, identifying and implementing best practices across the business, and minimizing process variability through standardization and automation.
  • Create global best practice documentation and facilitate sharing across the globe.
  • Ability to motivate others to achieve impeccable quality in an explosive growth and deadline-driven environment.
  • Travel for site assessments, internal design meetings, construction review, and interfacing with design consultants. Anticipated travel not to exceed 25%. International travel may be needed.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of industrial or commercial engineering in mission critical facilities including but not limited to: data centers, power generation or oil and gas facilities experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Structural, Civil, Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
  • Experience in project management or management consulting including handling multiple ongoing projects
  • Experience in life cycle design projects from design strategy through execution
  • Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents

Skills

Required:Leadership of cross-disciplinary teamsstakeholder managementProject management

Benefits

  • Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription) and life insurance options
  • 401(k) matching
  • paid time off and parental leave
  • Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
  • Employee assistance and mental health support
  • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • RSU and sign-on incentives as part of compensation package
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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