Technical PMO Lead – Data Centre Development
Location: Paris, France (remote working with some travel required)
Salary: Competitive salary + Package
Our client is a rapidly expanding international developer delivering large-scale, mission-critical data centre developments across Europe. Due to continued growth, they are seeking an experienced Technical PMO Lead to join their Paris-based team and provide technical leadership across a portfolio of hyperscale data centre projects.
The Role
As Technical PMO Lead, you will provide programme leadership across multiple live data centre developments, ensuring consistency in engineering standards, technical governance, permitting, programme management and stakeholder coordination. Acting as the central point of coordination between internal teams, consultants, contractors, utility providers and local authorities, you will oversee design progression, permit activities and programme delivery whilst driving standardisation and best practice across the wider portfolio.
This is a highly strategic position that combines technical leadership with programme management, ensuring projects are delivered efficiently whilst maintaining the highest standards of engineering quality, governance and commercial performance.
Responsibilities
- Lead technical programme management across multiple live data centre developments.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary design teams through planning, design and permitting phases.
- Drive technical governance, engineering standards and design consistency across the project portfolio.
- Manage programme schedules, design deliverables, approvals and stage-gate processes.
- Oversee permitting strategies, utility coordination and regulatory approvals.
- Monitor programme risks, technical issues, interface management and change control.
- Lead design reviews, technical workshops and stakeholder meetings.
- Coordinate consultants, contractors, specialist vendors and external stakeholders.
- Produce executive-level reports covering programme performance, risks, critical decisions and project milestones.
- Identify opportunities to improve delivery, increase capacity, standardise solutions and accelerate project programmes.
- Support strategic decision-making around resilience, sustainability, constructability and future expansion.
Requirements
- Degree qualified in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, Architecture or a related discipline.
- Minimum 8 years' experience delivering large-scale Data Centre, Mission Critical, Infrastructure or Industrial projects.
- Strong background managing multidisciplinary design and engineering teams.
- Experience coordinating multiple concurrent projects or programmes.
- Excellent understanding of data centre design, permitting, utility coordination and programme delivery.
- Experience managing consultants, contractors, utility providers and client stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of programme controls, scheduling, risk management and technical governance.
- Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Power BI or similar programme management software.
- Fluent French and English communication skills are essential.
What's on Offer
- Opportunity to work on one of Europe's most exciting hyperscale data centre development portfolios.
- Join an ambitious and rapidly growing international organisation.
- Work on technically complex, high-value mission-critical developments.
- Excellent long-term career progression and leadership opportunities.
- Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.
- Based in Paris with travel to project sites across France.
For more information please contact:
Sadie.martin@clear-er.com
