Senior Associate Director - Digital & Building Technology

About the role

This role leads and delivers ICT infrastructure design, combining robust technical design with strong client and stakeholder engagement. It suits someone who is hands-on, commercially aware and comfortable coordinating across disciplines to deliver high-quality outcomes, while supporting and mentoring junior team members.

Key responsibilities

• Produce complete ICT design deliverables: written reports, drawings, technical specifications and schematic diagrams such as data networks.
• Attend technical meetings with clients, consultants and contractors.
• Provide technical leadership, manage team outputs, set quality expectations and mentor where needed.
• Challenge and innovate design solutions, and manage client and stakeholder expectations.
• Ensure specifications, drawings and calculations meet industry, legal and quality standards.
• Coordinate ICT design with related engineering disciplines such as electrical and mechanical.
• Plan, host and run client and stakeholder meetings, capturing and confirming technical and operational requirements.
• Undertake peer and QA reviews of ICT design deliverables.
• Review and improve practices, challenging standard approaches where better outcomes are possible.

Required profile

• Engineering degree in an ICT infrastructure design discipline, or equivalent qualification or experience (e.g. CCNA/CCNP, BICSI).
• 5 to 10 years of ICT infrastructure design experience across different building types, including commercial buildings, hospitality, healthcare and data centres.
• Demonstrated experience in one or more of: data cabling manufacture/contracting, IT/IP systems integration, network technology vendor/manufacturer, IT/multi-disciplinary consulting, or construction project management.
• Experience in a consulting environment on multi-disciplinary, multi-office project teams is well regarded.

Required skills

• Strong technical capability in LAN Ethernet switching, structured cabling, fibre optic networks, Wi-Fi and telecommunication network infrastructure.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with colleagues, clients and contractors.
• Nice to have: 2D CAD and 3D Revit model coordination, procurement documentation, and experience leading small technical teams.