Technical Director in Brisbane, Australia

Technical Director

Set the technical direction for one of Australia's most significant new AI-ready data centre campuses.

Location Brisbane, Queensland, with regular travel to Dalby | Reports to Head of Design and Engineering

About Zerra DC

Zerra DC develops and operates hyperscale data centre campuses across Australia, Japan and India, delivering capacity at scale into markets being reshaped by the growth of cloud and AI. Zerra DC is part of AGP Sustainable Real Assets, a global infrastructure and real assets business with more than 800 professionals across 15 offices.

Western Downs Digital Park

Western Downs Digital Park is a major new hyperscale data centre campus at Kogan in Queensland. Planned across multiple delivery phases, it brings together AI-ready data centres, energy infrastructure and a purpose-built campus environment. This is an opportunity to help shape the technical foundations of a critical new digital infrastructure asset from the ground up.

The role

The Technical Director will be the principal technical authority for Western Downs Digital Park, accountable for design outcomes across the project. You will lead the multidisciplinary design and engineering team and provide end-to-end technical leadership from concept design through delivery, commissioning and handover.

This is a senior project leadership role for an experienced data centre professional who can establish technical direction, integrate multiple engineering disciplines and lead delivery at pace. You will also serve as the senior technical representative to customers, translating their requirements while protecting design integrity, programme, cost and operability.

What you will lead

• Technical and design direction across the full WDDP project lifecycle.

• The multidisciplinary project engineering team across electrical, mechanical, high-voltage, energy

storage, controls and owner-supplied equipment.

• Technical interfaces and dependencies across consultants, contractors, suppliers and internal

workstreams.

• The early identification and resolution of design risks, technical issues and decisions affecting

programme, cost, quality or delivery.

• Customer technical engagement, including requirements, queries, deviations and change requests.

• A clear, accountable and delivery-focused engineering culture.

What you will bring

You will be a senior technical leader with substantial experience designing and delivering hyperscale or large-scale data centre projects. You will combine deep technical credibility with the judgement to lead specialists, customers and delivery partners through complex decisions.

• End-to-end technical responsibility across major data centre projects or campuses, ideally through at least two complete lifecycles from concept to handover.

• Deep understanding of multidisciplinary data centre design, systems integration, resilience and

commissioning.

• Practical exposure to liquid cooling and the requirements of AI-ready, high-density facilities.

• Experience gained within a leading multidisciplinary engineering consultancy, developer, operator or delivery organisation.

• The ability to translate technical positions into programme, cost, constructability and operational

implications.

• Credible leadership with customers, senior stakeholders and high-performing specialist teams.

The opportunity

This is the principal technical appointment for WDDP and an opportunity to shape the design of a major new digital and energy precinct from its foundations. Your decisions will influence how the campus is designed, delivered, commissioned and operated for years to come.

North Search is Zerra DC's recruitment partner for the Western Downs Digital Park. Apply via LinkedIn or contact ***email_hidden*** for a confidential discussion.