Architect (Data Centers)

Jacobs

The Role

Overview

Design and lead data center architectural projects, ensuring quality and client satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

  • design review
  • construction docs
  • field support
  • calc checking
  • model creation
  • proposal development

Tasks

-Perform quality reviews on designs performed by others. -Collaborating with a team of designers and engineers as Architect/Architectural Designer, you’ll help us engage with clients and subcontractors, designing some of the world’s most advanced data center facilities. Your multi-discipline, highly interactive team will work together to deliver construction documents. -Plan and conduct work requiring judgment and evaluation, selection, and adaptation of architectural techniques and criteria. -Support field construction efforts, including reviewing submittals, responding to questions from clients and contractors, and performing field walks. -Perform calculation checking of others’ work. -Perform technical and business presentations with clients and employees. -Collaborate with other designers in the development of layout, technical design, construction drawings, specification, and model creation. -Attend project meetings and take an active role in helping the team resolve concerns and solve problems across all disciplines. -Participate in and champion internal, cross-discipline, and external project quality reviews. -Participate in developing proposals, budgets, and schedules for process-specific work.

Requirements

  • revit
  • autocad
  • sketchup
  • adobe suite
  • master's degree
  • architect license

What You Bring

-Ability to work well across multiple teams and lead small architectural teams -Master’s degree in Architecture -Knowledge of building codes and applicability to industrial facilities -Professional Architectural License and be able to be licensed in multiple states -Exhibit a high level of attention to detail and quality control -Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from an accredited Architectural program -Experience with designing data centers and industrial manufacturing facilities -At least 5 years of professional Architectural Design experience -Expert-level proficiency with REVIT, AutoCAD, Sketchup, and Adobe Suite -Understanding of scopes of work, developing budgets, and reviewing schedules

The Company

About Jacobs

-Headquartered in Dallas, it has evolved into a global powerhouse delivering consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery services. -Its portfolio spans transformative projects—clean water systems, data centers, rail expansions, offshore wind roadmaps, and wastewater plants. -Specialising in advanced manufacturing, cities & places, energy, environmental, national security & defense, life sciences, transportation and water sectors. -Jacobs has reshaped itself via key moves—spinning off government services, acquiring CH2M in 2017, and exiting traditional oil & gas units. -Projects often tackle high-stakes, complex challenges: wastewater treatment in Vancouver, LIRR station upgrades, and AI data centres in Portugal. -Unusually, the firm shifted its HQ from California to Dallas in 2016 to align with its expanding national and global reach.

Sector Specialisms

Advanced Manufacturing

Cities & Places

Energy

Environmental

National Security & Defense

Life Sciences

Transportation

Water

Cybersecurity and Operational Technology