Design Manager

Grow Your Career with Soben, Part of Accenture – Norway

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The Role – Design Manager (Data Centres)

The Design Manager will lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver technically robust and coordinated designs for hyperscale, enterprise, and colocation data centre projects across Norway and the Nordic region.

This role provides full design-cycle oversight, including scoping, technical assurance, regulatory compliance, stakeholder engagement, and interface management from concept through to construction support.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage all design stages across architecture, MEP, environmental, digital systems, and technical advisory streams
• Ensure integrated design solutions across energy systems, cooling strategies, water usage, sustainability, and operational resilience — key considerations in modern data centre development
• Work closely with clients to shape project briefs, support early-stage project origination, and align commercial and technical feasibility
• Ensure compliance with Norwegian and international standards and regulations, maintaining high design quality and project readiness
• Support modular and prefabricated design approaches to accelerate programme delivery and optimise efficiency
• Coordinate planning submissions, permitting processes, and engagement with local authorities, environmental bodies, and grid/power providers
• Manage interfaces across stakeholders to ensure effective design integration and project delivery

About You

• Extensive design management experience within mission-critical or technically complex infrastructure, ideally including data centres
• Strong multidisciplinary coordination capability, integrating engineering, architectural, digital, and environmental inputs
• Understanding of Nordic market dynamics, including power/grid constraints, sustainability expectations, and regulatory frameworks in Norway
• Awareness of key industry drivers such as high-density computing/AI demand, energy efficiency, and net-zero targets
• Proactive and solutions-focused approach to navigating technical, regulatory, and environmental challenges
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and client-facing communication skills
• Degree in engineering, architecture, or a related discipline
• Professional chartership (or working towards) is desirable

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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