Technical Project Director

The Technical Project Director oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of complex technical Data Center projects, ensuring alignment with business goals, managing cross-functional teams, and optimizing resources to meet deadlines and quality standards.

Scope of work:

The ideal candidate will join us and grow with us while we scale our compute power infrastructure.

First: Design phase

• Manage and coordinate all technical discussions with the potential contractors and technical advisors
• Coordinate with the MD in charge of Corporate Development for business planning purpose and ahead of commercial and technical negotiations
• Prepare a detailed capex list
• Propose a detailed technical timeline highlighting the critical path and the interdependencies 
• Review the design and suggest optimization to improve pricing, quality and control of the timeline
• Establish a reasonable capex disbursement schedule and discuss potential upside and downside scenarios in terms of timeline/delays
• Forecast the lifecycle costs and heavy maintenance cycle of the infrastructure
• Prepare and negotiate the commercial and technical terms with the contractors and technical advisors (price mechanism, inflation, payment schedule, responsibilities, testing phase, penalties, warranties, termination provisions)
• Provide a technical risk matrix with mitigation plan
• Coordinate with the insurance broker to define an appropriate insurance program and facilitate the placement of the insurance policies
• List all permits, authorizations, technical compliance obligations to be met along their specific timeline and frequency
• Propose a detailed plan for technical supervision, governance and quality control for the construction and installation phase

Then: Construction and installation phase, Testing phase and Operational phase