Senior Director, System Engineering & Intelligence, Global

Nscale

4d • $280,000 - $400,000 • Remote

About The Position

Nscale is seeking a Senior Director, System Engineering & Intelligence to lead the integration and optimization of operational systems and equipment data within their AI data centres. This role is crucial for developing measurably self-aware and progressively self-operating data centres. The successful candidate will own the equipment digital thread, from definition and procurement through to maintenance, and establish the telemetry and analytics foundation for Nscale's Operational Systems (NOS). The goal is to ensure sites are declared ready based on evidence rather than judgment, driving efficiency and confidence in physical estate operations.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience across engineering, asset management, enterprise systems, or industrial analytics, including 7+ years leading cross-functional programmes at director level or above.
• Ownership of a CMMS/EAM platform at scale (e.g. Maximo, SAP PM, Infor, Nuvolo), plus depth in master data, PIM/PLM, BOM, and configuration management.
• Proven delivery of analytics or ML on physical infrastructure (data centres, energy, utilities, heavy industry, or similar), including hands-on experience with messy BMS/SCADA/historian data.
• Experience taking models into control or decision loops, along with the safety, validation, and governance work that requires.
• Strong judgement on enterprise and data architecture, including ERP, integration, streaming, time-series storage, lineage, and Palantir Foundry or an equivalent platform.
• Experience with ITIL-aligned operations and controlled MOP, LOTO, and permit-to-work regimes in mission-critical environments.
• Credibility with both facilities engineers and software teams.
• A track record of building a function from scratch.
• Honesty and clarity with executives about uncertainty.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of AI/HPC data centre plant, including liquid cooling, UPS, switchgear, and GPU and fabric telemetry.
• Familiarity with reliability standards such as RCM, FMEA, ISO 14224, and ISO 55000.
• Experience with digital twin or CFD-informed modelling.
• Experience with BIM/COBie handover.
• Background in energy and grid optimisation.

Responsibilities

• Set strategy and investment: own a costed, sequenced multi-year roadmap and investment portfolio across CMMS/EAM, PIM/PLM, integration, telemetry, and the data platform, starting with an assessment of which systems should be consolidated, retained, replaced, or newly instrumented.
• Own the asset master and governance: establish one canonical identity for every asset, along with taxonomy, hierarchy, configuration, and BOM standards, ensuring every critical data object has one system of record.
• Lead cleansing and validation-at-source programmes so governed lifecycle data replaces spreadsheets.
• Build the telemetry foundation: deliver a unified asset and topology model from grid connection down to GPU and network port, with OT/IT ingest (Modbus, BACnet, OPC UA, MQTT, Redfish, DCGM) and IEC 62443-aligned segmentation.
• Publish data-quality scores and agree single, shared definitions for PUE, WUE, capacity, stranded power, and availability.
• Make maintenance and reliability trustworthy: own the CMMS/EAM configuration baseline (criticality, PM strategy, spares, warranties) and controlled SOP/MOP/EOP libraries.
• Map condition data deterministically to assets so predictive maintenance raises work orders, not just reports.
• Move NOS intelligence toward autonomy: build anomaly detection, remaining-useful-life prediction, and thermal and power optimisation.
• Progress control loops through shadow, recommend-only, human-approved, and bounded-autonomous stages, each with explicit safety envelopes and engineering sign-off.
• Assure site readiness: turn commissioning (L1–L5) into data, set acceptance gates for handover, and score readiness quantitatively per hall and per site.
• Benchmark readiness across the portfolio so defects found on one build are designed out of the next.
• Act as the senior escalation point across Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Operations, Reliability, Platform, Finance, and HSE, and enforce supplier and OFCI data deliverables.
• Build and develop a high-performing team spanning lifecycle engineering, data science, and data engineering.

Benefits

• Highly competitive package, including base salary and equity, with reviews every 12 months.
• Dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions.
• Human-first flexibility.
• Flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.
• Join our thriving remote-first team.
• Seamless virtual collaboration, empowering you wherever you work.
• Medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed