About this role
About the Role Lead and coordinate front-end development across European AI data centre projects (greenfield, brownfield, and Colocation), taking ownership from site identification through delivery readiness. Work with senior leadership to drive due diligence, acquisitions, permitting, utility agreements and pre-development design, coordinating a broad network of consultants, authorities, utilities, and internal teams. This role suits a commercially sharp, highly organised professional who thrives in an entrepreneurial culture. What You'll Do
- Market Screening, Site Identification & Acquisition: Strategically match End User GPU needs with available capacity across the EMEA region; develop site feasibility assessments and business cases, assessing power, fibre, water, environmental, and planning constraints.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary due diligence: legal, geotechnical, environmental, transport, and utilities; manage consultants and internal teams.
- Support commercial negotiations with landowners, developers, and partners; maintain acquisition trackers, risk registers, and gating documentation.
- Site Development, Design & Utilities: Drive front-end development from feasibility through developed design activities, including permitting roadmaps, risk mitigations, enabling works and power strategies.
- Lead utility engagement across power, fibre, gas and water - including grid connection applications, off-grid solutions and capacity assessments.
- Produce and develop early stage Project Execution Plans to enable smooth integration of detailed design, delivery and operational teams.
- Develop risk-adjusted project cost plans and schedules to underpin Business Cases and manage development budgets, schedules, risk registers, and reporting.
- Planning, Permitting & Stakeholder Management: Coordinate planning and operational permitting applications and technical submissions across multiple EMEA jurisdictions; engage proactively with local authorities, utility providers, landowners, and communities.
- Manage permitting and licensing roadmaps, approval conditions, and regulatory compliance throughout the development pipeline.
- Enable sales teams to market opportunities with increasing clarity as new sites progress towards an investable, sellable and deliverable business opportunity.
- Collaboration & Continuous Improvement: Act as a connector across development, design, delivery, legal, finance, procurement, compute deployment, operations and delivery teams; contribute to the evolution of Nscale's development standards, governance frameworks, and delivery processes; stay ahead of market shifts - utility constraints, planning policy changes, and sector trends - sharing insight that sharpens our strategy. What We're Looking For
- Experience & Qualifications: Ideally, 3+ years in client-side, front-end development of data centres, mission-critical infrastructure, or complex real estate.
- Proven experience across site acquisition, due diligence, permitting, entitlements, and pre-construction coordination.
- Strong grasp of utility infrastructure, planning systems, and large-scale development processes.
- Degree in Engineering, Planning, Real Estate, Construction Management, or a related discipline.
- Skills & Experience: Clear communicator; Highly organised; Commercially astute; Collaborative; Adaptable and curious. Nice to Have Compensation & Benefits