Financial Services - Data Center Development & Modernization - Technology Consulting - Manager - NYC

EY•New York, NY

1d•$166,900 - $278,100•Onsite

About The Position

EY is seeking a manager to join their Financial Services Office (FSO) team, focusing on data center development and modernization within the financial services industry. The role involves advising clients on technical site evaluation, facility requirements, design governance, construction controls, commissioning, and turnover, with an understanding of how facility decisions impact technology capacity, resiliency, and migration timing. The work is primarily for banking, capital markets, insurance, and payment clients, but may extend to other highly regulated or mission-critical organizations. The position requires leading technical workstreams for data center and Cloud builds, expansions, retrofits, or colocation deployments, and evaluating candidate sites and IT requirements to translate them into facility specifications. The manager will also review design and construction packages, manage project baselines, and lead client meetings and team output.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, or related technical discipline.
At least 7 years of relevant experience, including direct leadership on data center Cloud transformation comparable mission-critical facility programs.
Experience on more than one data center build, major expansion or modernization effort through multiple lifecycle phases.
Practical experience reviewing design and construction information and managing decisions across owner, designer, contractor, commissioning and operator teams.
Strong knowledge of critical power and cooling topologies, controls, maintainability, commissioning, and turnover.
Experience presenting complex scope, schedule, cost and risk issues to executives and technical leaders.
Hands-on use of Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project to review and challenge logic-linked schedules, critical paths, procurement activities and commissioning sequences.
Hands-on use of Procore or Autodesk Construction Cloud/BIM 360 for submittals, RFIs, drawing control, issues, changes and field documentation.
Ability to review and markup technical drawings using Bluebeam Revu or equivalent; familiarity with Revit and Navisworks coordination outputs is expected, although this is not a production design role.
Advanced Microsoft Excel for cost, change, procurement, capacity, risk and decision analysis, with the ability to translate analysis into executive PowerPoint reporting.
Working exposure to commissioning and turnover platforms, DCIM, BMS, EPMS or CMMS data sufficient to evaluate readiness, test evidence, asset information and handover completeness.

Nice To Haves

Public-cloud migration experience is relevant and is a substitute for data center infrastructure migration, consolidation and exit experience although experience with both is preferred
Power BI or comparable dashboarding experience is preferred for portfolio-level schedule, cost, risk and readiness reporting.
Experience applying Microsoft Copilot or comparable enterprise AI tools to accelerate review of technical documents, schedules, risk registers, design information, commissioning records and executive reporting is preferred.
Ability to validate AI-assisted outputs against source documents and apply professional engineering, construction or operational judgment.
Financial services or another environment with stringent availability, change-control and recovery requirements.
Experience working effectively with real estate advisors, developers and utility specialists; direct land acquisition or utility account management experience is not required.
Owner-representative, developer/operator, engineering, construction-management, commissioning or critical-facilities experience.
Multi-region or multi-site delivery and work with colocation or build-to-suit providers.
Experience translating high-density compute, liquid cooling, network and workload requirements into facility design and phasing.
Relevant credentials such as PE, PMP, CCM, Uptime Institute credentials, Certified Data Centre Design Professional (CDCDP), DCD Academy Data Center Practitioner (DCP), BICSI Data Center Design Consultant (DCDC), commissioning credentials or LEED accreditation are preferred but not required. Demonstrated delivery experience carries greater weight than certification alone.

Responsibilities

Lead technical site and facility workstreams for multiple concurrent data center and Cloud builds, expansions, retrofits or colocation deployments.
Lead technical evaluation of candidate sites using information developed by real estate advisors, developers, utilities and specialist consultants; translate findings into data center requirements, risks and executive decisions.
Translate IT load, rack density, growth, availability and recovery requirements into facility capacity and performance requirements.
Lead owner-side review of civil, structural, architectural, electrical, mechanical, plumbing, fire protection, security, controls and telecommunications packages.
Challenge basis-of-design assumptions, single points of failure, maintainability, phasing, temporary conditions, equipment lead times and commissioning strategy.
Manage integrated baselines for scope, schedule, cost, risk, decisions, procurement, design maturity and operational readiness across concurrent projects.
Lead technical diligence and evaluation of developers, colocation providers, designers, contractors, commissioning agents and key suppliers; coordinate with CBRE or comparable real estate advisors without assuming brokerage, land-acquisition or direct utility-application responsibilities.
Oversee constructability, procurement readiness, change control, quality, FAT/SAT, commissioning, integrated systems testing, turnover, and closeout.
Coordinate with IT and migration leadership so facility, rack, network and transition milestones remain aligned.
Lead client meetings, team output, engagement economics, quality and executive recommendations.