Vice President Data Center Design

At Montera , we’re building the future of digital infrastructure. Founder-led with $1.5B backed by Stonepeak, Montera is driven by a future-focused vision: to develop and operate hyperscale data centers essential for tomorrow's technology. Our mission is to deliver strategically located, hyperscale data centers designed for speed, reliability, and scalability. Backed by decades of experience in design, construction, and operations, we don’t just build—we execute with purpose.
Our Values
- Client First Alignment: We align every solution to our clients’ goals.

- Speed with Certainty: Velocity matters. We deliver with urgency and precision.

- Operational Excellence: Decades of experience drive our high standards.

- Safety & Integrity: Safety is non-negotiable. We lead with integrity and transparency.

- Ownership Mentality: We think like owners, because we are.

The Opportunity

Montera is seeking a Vice President Data Center Design leads the delivery of Montera ’s facility designs across the portfolio. Reporting to the CTO, the VP owns design execution end to end — from reference architecture through IFC and construction support — and is the senior leader of Montera ’s Principal Engineering & Architecture Leadership family and its external design and construction partners.

This is a people-leadership and delivery-accountability role, distinct from the CTO’s external technical and customer-facing mandate. The CTO owns customer requirements capture and is the technical external face of Montera ; the VP converts those requirements into buildable, coordinated, on-schedule designs and drives them through the design and construction partner ecosystem (CSA, MEP, design-assist trades, GC/CM, and specialty consultants) to a predictable, commissioned outcome.

The VP manages the five Principal ICs — Architect & Master Planning, Electrical, Mechanical, Controls, and Network — aligning their reference architectures into a single coherent facility design, resolving cross-discipline conflicts, and holding the integrated design schedule and budget. The role is accountable for design quality, constructability, multi-discipline coordination, and the design inputs to cost, schedule, and availability targets across active projects (currently Eagle and Goldeneye) and the broader pipeline.
Requirements
What You'll Do
Design Delivery & Program Execution
- Own end-to-end design delivery across the portfolio — concept, SD, DD, IFP/IFC, and construction-phase support — against committed schedule milestones (e.g., schematic design and IFC dates) and yield-on-cost targets.

- Hold the integrated, multi-discipline design schedule and budget; drive the critical path across architectural, electrical, mechanical, controls, and network scopes.

- Govern design change control, trade studies, and value-engineering decisions, protecting design intent, reliability targets (five-nines availability), and operability.

- Own the design basis of design (BOD) and its consistent application across projects, and the design deliverables that feed permitting, procurement, and construction.

Leadership of the Principal Engineering & Architecture Family
- Directly lead and develop the five Principal ICs (Architect/Master Planning, Electrical, Mechanical, Controls, Network); set objectives, review performance, and build the discipline centers of excellence.

- Integrate discipline reference architectures into one coherent, coordinated facility design; arbitrate cross-discipline trade-offs (e.g., power vs. cooling vs. space, controls data model vs. network segmentation).

- Ensure the Controls–Network interlock on customer data exposure is delivered jointly and coherently, consistent with the single-tenant model and the requirements the CTO captures.

- Enforce portfolio-wide design standards, playbooks, and prototypical modules that enable rapid, repeatable deployment.

Design Contracts & Partner Governance
- Define, review, neg