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About the role

As a Senior Data Centre Consultant within our Investor Advisory team, you will play a key role in delivering independent technical consultancy services across critical environments. You will work with a diverse client base including investors, lenders, enterprise organisations, and professional data centre operators, supporting major capital decisions on complex data centre assets.

The role has a strong focus on Lender Technical Advisor (LTA) / Technical Due Diligence services, providing assurance to financial institutions funding large‑scale data centre developments, including Hyperscale, Colocation, and Edge projects. You will assess technical feasibility, review CAPEX and OPEX assumptions, and monitor construction progress, ensuring developments align with industry standards, contractual requirements, and investor expectations.

In addition to LTA work, you will lead and contribute to a wide range of strategic and technical advisory assignments, from feasibility and master planning through to design strategy, operational readiness, compliance, and certification.

As a senior member of the team, you will also support service development, quality assurance, and the continuous improvement of our Investor Advisory offering.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead and deliver Buyer‑side and Vendor‑side Technical Due Diligence, including desktop reviews and site inspections
• Provide Lender’s Technical Advisor (LTA) Due Diligence services for the financial services industry that fund large‑scale data centre projects
• Undertake technical and operational audits of data centre facilities across the UK, Europe and wider EMEA, producing clear risk‑based reporting, which satisfies the needs of both public and private sector clients
• Provide strategic advisory services from initial strategy development through procurement, site and facility selection, and execution
• Provide technical oversight of design, project, engineering, construction, and operational activities
• Assess and advise on plant and infrastructure lifecycle considerations, including technical, commercial and operational impacts
• Undertake site audits independently or as part of a team, depending on project scale, reviewing layout, configuration and resilience against requirements for usability, reliability, sustainability, energy efficiency, maintainability and compliance with relevant data centre standards.
• Develop and review operational procedures, policies and process documentation for client facilities
• Translate complex technical detail into clear, decision‑ready advice for investor and senior stakeholder audience.
• Advise on governance, and legislative impacts on data centre operations and development.
• Manage and support the development of client proposals and bids, including technical input and review
• Review and approve purchase orders relating to third‑party technical and commercial services
• Travel regularly across Europe (typically at least monthly) to support client engagements

What we’re ideally looking for

• Critical LV switchgear arrangements
• UPS systems and standby generation
• Critical cooling systems (including chilled water)
• Fire suppression systems
• Control, monitoring and management systems (BMS, PMS, EMS)

• Strong understanding of the critical supporting elements of data centre facilities, including design resilience, maintenance regimes, security frameworks and established operational best practices.
• Demonstrated ability to interpret the technical nuances of data centre construction and operations, and to clearly document and communicate findings in a manner that enables clients to make informed, high‑value business and investment decisions.
• Proven project and programme management capability, with the confidence and credibility to engage effectively with client representatives at all levels, from technical teams through to senior stakeholder and decision‑maker level.
• Highly proficient in standard office software, with the ability to produce clear, high‑quality reports, presentations and client deliverables.
• Confident working independently or leading multi‑disciplinary teams, with strong stakeholder and client communication skills.
• Comfortable presenting complex technical findings to senior, non‑technical audiences.
• Proactive, delivery‑focused and able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Strong engineering foundation with excellent problem‑solving skills and attention to detail.
• Experienced in working under pressure, with deep knowledge of mission‑critical and data centre environments.

At Keysource, a Salute company, we believe in building long-term careers and investing in our people and we value our people and take great pride in providing not just a job but fantastic career opportunities.

In addition to the opportunity to work in a great team, you'll gain access to cutting-edge industry training that aims to enhance your skills and support your future development.

Other information: The role is a full-time position based at our Gatwick office on a hybrid-working basis. The base salary will be commensurate with experience and is expected to be highly competitive. As well as a competitive salary, other benefits offered include generous annual leave allowance, private medical cover, health cash plan, life assurance, pension and other flexible benefits.

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