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As a Lead Datacentre Strategist, you will play a key role in crafting the datacentre vision, driving excellence in datacentre decisions, optimization, design, and management, and ensuring our datacentre infrastructure remains at the forefront of operations. **Key Responsibilities:** - Developing and leading the implementation of strategic datacentre plans aligned with business objectives, focusing on scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency. - Collaborating with executive leadership to define long-term datacentre goals and roadmaps. - Working alongside a team of skilled datacentre specialists, providing guidance, mentoring, and encouraging innovation and togetherness. - Providing team and cultural change leadership and management as part of 100+ strong global dc group. - Collaborating with different teams, including engineering, architecture, operations, and finance, to drive alignment and ensure seamless execution of datacentre strategies. - Designing and architecting modern datacentre solutions, encompassing leading infrastructure, networking technologies, virtualization, and cloud services. - Actively supporting project lifecycle and championing running technical and operational risks and issues for smaller projects that are not led by the Project Management Organization (PMO). - Monitoring and analyzing datacentre performance metrics, finding opportunities for optimization, through continuous improvement. - Implementing practices to improve datacentre efficiency, reliability, and security. - Developing and implementing datacentre security protocols, adhering to industry standards and regulatory requirements to safeguard critical assets. - Mitigating potential risks and vulnerabilities through proactive planning and infrastructure improvements. - Developing and leading datacentre budgets, ensuring efficient utilization of resources and alignment to financial targets. - Collaborating with finance and procurement teams to improve vendor relationships and achieve better partnerships including cost efficiency & innovation. - Staying ahead of industry trends, new technologies, and standard processes in datacentre management. **Qualifications:** - 15 years demonstrated expertise in enterprise datacentre management, with a track record of delivering successful datacentre strategies and projects. - Experience or equivalent in computer science, information technology, electrical engineering, data science, or a related field. - Demonstratable experienced in leading and working with driven teams. - Strong technical understanding in datacentre technologies, including server infrastructure, storage systems, networking, virtualization, and cloud computing. - Ability to develop and implement datacentre strategies that align with business goals. - Excellent communicator and personable, with the ability to collaborate successfully with all colleagues and partners. - Project management experience with a focus on delivering projects on time and within budget. - In-depth knowledge of relevant datacenter trends, practices, management, and infrastructure.,
