Sr. Associate, Data Center Design Engineer

Position Title: Sr. Associate Data Center Design Engineer
Location: Phoenix, AZ

Your role 
Join the world’s leading data center experts and design solutions for some of the most innovative customers on the planet. As a Sr. Associate Data Center Design Engineer, you will create detailed engineering packages addressing space, power, cooling, and connectivity requirements during the pre-sales process. You will act as a subject matter expert for assigned campuses or buildings, ensuring technical accuracy, consistency, and seamless transitions from sales to implementation.
This role combines customer-facing engagement, technical design expertise, and collaboration with Solutions Engineers, Portfolio Management, Operations, and Design & Construction teams to deliver optimized solutions that align with customer needs and company standards.

What you’ll do 
•    Partner with Solutions Engineers to understand customer business/technical needs.
•    Design and deliver optimized whitespace, power, cooling, and connectivity solutions.
•    Create engineering packages: drawings, floor plans, technical documentation, and proposals.
•    Conduct site surveys, due diligence, and indicative CFD analyses.
•    Present technical solutions directly to customers, supporting RFPs and technical due diligence.
•    Collaborate with sales, portfolio, and operations teams during all stages of the sales cycle.
•    Provide technical expertise during customer tours and solution presentations.
•    Act as the local Subject Matter Expert for assigned campuses: whitespace design, inventory, connectivity, pathways and capacity management.
•    Perform Service Order reviews, cost validations requirements.
•    Support post-sales teams with accurate handover packages, Technical Service Reviews, and order materials.
•    Support forecasting, pipeline, and market analysis.

What you’ll need 
•    Education & Experience:
o    Bachelor’s degree in electrical or mechanical engineering 
•    Technical Expertise:
o    Design skills in high- and low-density data centers (power, cooling, space optimization, airflow).
o    Basic knowledge of liquid cooling technologies and best practices.
o    Basic understanding of network architecture, fiber optics, and connectivity solutions.
o    Familiarity with CAD/Visio/AutoCAD, CFD modeling.
o    Proficiency in MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and Adobe Acrobat.
•    Soft Skills:
o    Excellent customer-facing and presentation skills.
o    Ability to translate complex technical requirements into clear, actionable solutions.
o    Fundamental project management, problem-solving, and communication skills.
o    Adaptability to fast-paced, global environments.
o    Commitment to customer service and cross-functional collaboration.

A bit about us 
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

A bit about our team 
Our Technology & Innovation team strives to innovate alongside our customers and empower their businesses to thrive. We work closely with our customers to develop insights-based, data-driven technical solutions and differentiated value propositions on PlatformDIGITAL® across the world. Operating in almost 50 cities globally means we understand how rapidly the world is evolving, so we’ve built a best-in-class development model to qualify, package; and enable cloud to core to edge hybrid IT solutions. Our deep technical heritage, combined with our global footprint, means the Technology Innovation team can create and deploy services and solutions that are at the heart of the digital economy.

What we can offer you 
Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding a