Electrical Lead - Data Centres
Data centres play a vital role in society, and the decisions made today will shape the digital and sustainable infrastructure of tomorrow. At COWI, we are intensifying our focus on data centres and expanding our capabilities to support clients in delivering the next generation of digital infrastructure.
We are therefore looking for a Electrical Lead to join us on this journey, becoming an integral part of our growing organisation and helping evolve our data centre environment through your expertise in complex projects.
Be part of building COWI’s data centre environment.
Data centres are a strategic growth area at COWI. As we scale our presence in this market, we are enhancing our multidisciplinary capabilities and working closely with clients to develop reliable, efficient and sustainable data centre solutions. In this role, you will engage closely with clients, colleagues and partners to develop and deliver data centre projects from early concept through design and implementation.
As Electrical Lead, you will bring your expertise in electrical engineering into multidisciplinary teams, helping translate customer needs into robust and future-ready solutions.
You will be part of a professional environment experiencing rapid growth and strong strategic focus within COWI, with opportunities to deepen your expertise, grow alongside the organisation, and play an active role in shaping our approach to data centre projects and customer collaboration.
Your key responsibilities will be to:
- Act as technical owner of the electrical discipline within data centre projects, with responsibility for electrical design strategy, quality and coordination.
- Lead and contribute to the design of mission‑critical electrical systems for data centres, including power distribution architecture, redundancy concepts and reliability requirements.
- Act as the technical authority for electrical design, supporting project coordination and ensuring well-defined interfaces across disciplines.
- Engage in dialogue with customers to understand their needs, and translate operational requirements into robust electrical design concepts and system layouts.
- Support project development throughout the full lifecycle, from early concept stages through design, tendering, construction and commissioning support.
- Collaborate closely with colleagues across engineering, architecture, sustainability and environmental advisory.
Examples of discipline-specific responsibilities may include:
- Manage electrical design and advisory for data centre facilities.
- Act as discipline lead within projects, ensuring technical quality and coordination.
- Contribute to technical dialogue with clients and project stakeholders.
- Support project development from concept to detailed design, to co-create with a data centre design manager or work as one.
- Contribute to innovative and sustainable data centre solutions.
Your skills. Our team. Together we design the future.
The first step to success in this role is that you are eager to collaborate with the people around you, whether they are colleagues, partners or customers. Developing ties with others is something you do by acting respectfully and delivering on your promises. And you never get set in your ways but keep exploring new insights and ways to improve.
On top of that, you will have:
- A relevant educational background in electrical engineering or similar
- Experience working with engineering consultancy, technical advisory or complex infrastructure projects.
- Experience in the overall design filosofi of a data centre covering basic knowledge across all disciplines in a project.
- Experience from data centre projects or other large-scale mission critical projects.
- Professional proficiency in English.
Additional role-specific qualifications may include:
- Experience with electrical infrastructure, covering both mission‑critical power systems and ELV-systems, such as security, fire alarm, data/telecommunication, ICT-and monitoring systems.
- Experience with electrical power infrastructure for data centres, including utility interfaces, high and low‑voltage distribution, UPS systems, emergency power generation and associated redundancy concepts (N, N+1, 2N).
- Experience working with large-scale infrastructure or industrial facilities.
- Experience leading technical teams or complex engineering projects.
- Experience with EN50600, Uptime Institute, TIA942 and EU Datacenter Code of Conduct
Work location.
The role can be based in any of our offices across Scandinavia. This includes offices in:
- Norway – Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, Oslo and Fredrikstad
- Sweden – Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö
- Denmark – Copenhagen, Kongens Lyngby, Vejle, Aarhus, Odense and Aalborg
We work in international and multidisciplinary teams, and many of our projects are delivered across offices and borders.
Do you have more questions?
If you have any unanswered questions about the role or what we have to offer, please reach out to Senior Global Talent Acquisition Specialist, Charlotte Lind, at CCRO@cowi.com.
Get to know us even better at our website, www.cowi.com and www.arkitema.com where you can learn more about our projects, our strategy, what we want to achieve and what life is like at COWI.
A place to work and so much more
At COWI, we work together with our customers to shape a sustainable and liveable world. We do it by applying our knowledge and curiosity – and sometimes even our courage – to create the solutions the world needs today to enable a better tomorrow. We support our customers’ transition towards increased sustainability. We strive to lead by example by embedding environmental management, social responsibility and good governance into our business practices and the options we provide to our customers.
We value differences and development and cultivate an environment of belonging and having fun. Because that is what brings out the best in you, at work and at home.
With offices primarily located in Scandinavia, the UK, North America and India, we are currently more than 7,500 people who bring their expertise in engineering, architecture, energy and environment into play.
Before you apply
All you need to include in your application is your CV – no photo or application letter. At an interview, you can tell us everything we need to know about why you’re interested in joining COWI. As for the photo, we prefer to form our first impression in person rather than from a picture.We review applications and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so the role may close as soon as we find the right match.
Diversity is fundamental to COWI, inclusion is key
We are committed to creating a respectful and fair work environment where all employees have a sense of belonging and equitable opportunities to thrive and grow. We ensure that our leaders are role models for inclusive leadership by cultivating a culture where diverse perspectives and thoughts are seen as strengths. And we take diversity and inclusion into account in all relevant decisions and processes and when setting teams and fora. We do it because it is part of our values and because it is simply the right thing to do.
