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The Technology Department
The Technology team at HSCALE builds the systems, standards, and frameworks behind our hyperscale data centre platform across EMEA. We cover Design, Engineering, Commissioning, Procurement, IT & Cybersecurity, Sustainability, Compliance, and Governance.
We link innovation with delivery: setting design, procurement, and commissioning standards to accelerate new builds, while running secure, resilient IT and compliance environments. With a customer-first, commercially smart approach and strong vendor partnerships, we scale fast and build for the future.

Position Overview
The Mechanical Engineering Lead leads and represents the mechanical discipline across HSCALE’s EMEA data centre development programme.
The role is accountable for mechanical design strategy, standards, and technical assurance, with a strong focus on sustainability, energy efficiency, and next generation cooling technologies.
Based in Design and Engineering, the role is the mechanical authority within the Engineering Centre of Excellence and the primary interface to external mechanical consultants and internal stakeholders.

Your Role

• Define, own, and govern HSCALE mechanical design standards, reference solutions, and engineering processes.
• Lead mechanical system selection and key technical decisions across all projects.
• Own mechanical inputs to the Basis of Design and  ensure coordination with electrical and built environment disciplines.
• Drive sustainable mechanical designs targeting low PUEs and alignment with HSCALE sustainability objectives.
• Lead development and deployment of next generation cooling technologies, including liquid to chip and hybrid cooling solutions.
• Evaluate and implement innovative mechanical systems not previously deployed in the market where risk and value are justified.
• Provide hands on technical leadership for cooling architectures, heat rejection, controls, and energy optimisation.
• Manage and technically assure external mechanical designers, CFD specialists, and vendors.
• Support commissioning, operational transition, and in service issue resolution.
• Drive continuous improvement through innovation, lessons learned, and performance data

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
• Chartered or Professional Engineer status preferred.
• 12 to 18 years of experience in mission critical or data centre mechanical engineering.
• Deep expertise in cooling systems, CFD, heat transfer, and energy efficient design.
• Demonstrated experience with high density and AI driven thermal challenges.
• Strong understanding of sustainability targets, PUE optimisation, and operational performance.
• Proven ability to deploy new technologies responsibly at scale.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% across EMEA

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The Finance Department
The Finance team supports hscale’s rapid European growth through disciplined financial planning, reporting, forecasting, and capital management.
Working closely with Development, Construction, Procurement, Operations, and Executive Leadership teams, Finance provides the insight, governance, and commercial guidance needed to deliver a multi-billion-euro hyperscale data centre development programme across EMEA.
As a key business partner to the organisation, the team helps drive strategic decision-making, investment planning, operational performance, and financial discipline in a fast-growing, investor-backed environment.

Position Overview
The Group Financial Controller is the second most senior finance leader within hscale, reporting directly to the CFO and playing a critical role in the company’s continued growth and international expansion.
This role is responsible for leading group financial control, consolidation, statutory reporting, audit management, treasury oversight, and governance across multiple European jurisdictions.
The successful candidate will combine strong technical accounting expertise with commercial judgement, leadership capability, and the ability to operate effectively within a dynamic, investor-backed business.

Your Role

• Lead the delivery of accurate, timely, and high-quality group and entity financial reporting.
• Own the monthly, quarterly, and annual financial close processes across the Group.
• Manage group consolidation activities and ensure compliance with IFRS and local statutory requirements.
• Oversee statutory accounts, audits, tax filings, and regulatory reporting across multiple jurisdictions.
• Partner with the CFO and Executive Leadership Team on financial planning, risk management, and strategic initiatives.
• Manage treasury activities, cash forecasting, shareholder funding, and lender reporting requirements.
• Develop and strengthen financial controls, governance frameworks, policies, and procedures across the organisation.
• Provide technical accounting guidance and financial support for strategic transactions and business initiatives.
• Lead, develop, and mentor a high-performing finance team.
• Drive continuous improvement of finance systems, processes, and reporting capabilities.

Your Profile

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
• Significant post-qualification experience within financial control, reporting, or audit environments.
• Strong IFRS and consolidation accounting expertise.
• Experience operating within complex, international, and fast-growing organisations.
• Proven ability to manage audits, statutory reporting, and external stakeholder relationships.
• Strong understanding of financial controls, governance, and risk management frameworks.
• Experience managing treasury activities, debt facilities, and cash forecasting is advantageous.
• Strong leadership skills with previous people management experience.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Experience within private equity-backed, infrastructure, real estate, data centre, or capital-intensive businesses is highly desirable.

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The Finance Department
The Finance team supports hscale’s rapid European growth through disciplined financial planning, reporting, forecasting, and capital management.
Working closely with Development, Construction, Procurement, Operations, and Executive Leadership teams, Finance provides the insight, governance, and commercial guidance needed to deliver a multi-billion-euro hyperscale data centre development programme across EMEA.
As a key business partner to the organisation, the team helps drive strategic decision-making, investment planning, operational performance, and financial discipline in a fast-growing, investor-backed environment.

Position Overview
The Senior Manager FP&A will lead financial planning, forecasting, reporting, and business partnering activities across hscale’s Development organisation.
Reporting directly to the CFO, this role will provide financial insight and forward-looking analysis across development CAPEX, construction cash flows, project performance, and investment planning.
This is a highly visible role requiring a commercially minded finance professional who can operate confidently across Finance, Development, Construction, Procurement, and Executive Leadership teams.
The successful candidate will combine strong financial planning expertise with the ability to influence decisions, challenge assumptions, and improve forecasting accuracy within a large-scale infrastructure environment.

Your Role

• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and long-range financial planning across the Development function.
• Own CAPEX forecasting, project cash flow reporting, and cost-to-complete analysis across a multi-billion-euro development portfolio.
• Deliver monthly reporting, KPI dashboards, variance analysis, and executive-level financial insights.
• Partner with Development, Construction, Procurement, PMO, and Corporate Finance teams to support commercial decision-making.
• Build financial models, business cases, and scenario analyses to support investment decisions and project approvals.
• Monitor project financial performance, identifying risks, opportunities, and corrective actions.
• Drive continuous improvement in FP&A processes, reporting standards, and forecasting accuracy.
• Develop automated reporting and Power BI dashboards to enhance decision-making and transparency.
• Support finance systems optimisation, including planning and reporting tools.
• Explore and implement AI-enabled finance solutions to improve reporting efficiency and business insight.

Your Profile

• Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, or equivalent).
• Significant experience in FP&A, Commercial Finance, or Development Finance roles.
• Background in infrastructure, construction, real estate, data centres, energy, or other CAPEX-intensive industries.
• Strong expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and management reporting.
• Experience supporting large-scale development or construction projects.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling capability.
• Strong Power BI and financial analytics experience.
• Commercially minded with the ability to translate financial data into actionable business insights.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth, and entrepreneurial environment.
• Experience within a private equity-backed or international organisation is advantageous.

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The Development Department

The Development team plays a crucial role in the success of the HSCALE product, ensuring the successful establishment, powering, reporting and monitoring, procurement, construction and commissioning of data centre campuses, through to seamless handover to operations. The power team ensures that data centres have a reliable and scalable power supply, coordinating with utility providers and integrating renewable energy sources where possible. They design and implement power distribution systems that meet the high demands of data centre operations, all the while considering how to “commercialise” hscale’s power infrastructure.

Position Overview

With two active campuses, and planned expansion into no less than three additional European locations, hscale is looking for a proven leader to grow and scale the construction division in Italy. The successful candidate will manage existing and build additional talented teams that have an exceptional construction capability and strong reputation within the industry with both customer and contractor communities to meet the growth demands within region. As Development Lead, your responsibilities will include construction operations oversight and delivering data centre projects of increasing size and complexity.  Collaboration and integration in the sales lifecycle process including client interface is integral to the role.  As hscale continues to expand you will peer with the NSD, CTO and Finance teams focused on cost and schedule management and reduction, integrate change management, scope and product optimization into new and ongoing projects, while providing lessons learned into the overall feedback loop for analysis and modification.

Your Role

• Lead the identification, evaluation, acquisition, and development of new data centre opportunities across Italy, including greenfield, brownfield, and strategic M&A assets.
• Develop and present business cases, investment recommendations, project budgets, and development strategies to executive leadership and investment stakeholders.
• Establish and maintain relationships with utilities, regulatory authorities, landowners, consultants, and other key stakeholders to support successful project delivery.
• Lead all pre-construction and development activities, including due diligence, permitting, entitlement processes, master planning, design development, and site readiness.
• Oversee the transition of projects from development through construction, ensuring clear governance, approval gates, handoff processes, and accountability.
• Provide leadership and oversight for the delivery of multiple hyperscale data centre projects, from pre-construction through commissioning, handover, and operational readiness.
• Own regional project performance across safety, quality, schedule, budget, and customer commitments, ensuring compliance with company standards and financial controls.
• Lead, develop, and mentor multidisciplinary teams across development, construction, project management, and external delivery partners.
• Drive commercial performance through effective CAPEX management, forecasting, contractor procurement, contract administration, and risk management.
• Partner closely with Finance, Technology, Operations, Sales, Procurement, and PMO teams to align project delivery with business objectives and customer requirements.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by implementing lessons learned, delivery best practices, and operational excellence initiatives across the region.
• Champion best-in-class Environmental, Health & Safety standards across all projects, ensuring a strong safety culture and industry-leading performance.

Your Profile

• 10+ years of experience in construction, project management, and real estate development, including leadership responsibility for large-scale capital projects.
• Proven experience delivering complex construction projects within corporate real estate, infrastructure, data centre, or mission-critical environments.
• Strong knowledge of both CSA (Civil, Structural & Architectural) and MEP (Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing) construction management.
• Experience managing projects through the full lifecycle, from due diligence and planning through construction, commissioning, and handover.
• Strong commercial acumen, including budget management, cost control, forecasting, contract administration, and financial analysis.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary teams, consultants, contractors, and external stakeholders across multiple concurrent projects.
• Excellent stakeholder management, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence at all organizational levels.
• Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach and the ability to balance long-term objectives with day-to-day execution requirements.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to make decisions in complex and fast-paced environments.
• Willingness to travel regularly across the region (approximately 50%) and operate effectively in a dynamic, international environment.

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The Development Department

The Development team plays a crucial role in the success of the HSCALE product, ensuring the successful establishment, powering, reporting and monitoring, procurement, construction and commissioning of data centre campuses, through to seamless handover to operations. The power team ensures that data centres have a reliable and scalable power supply, coordinating with utility providers and integrating renewable energy sources where possible. They design and implement power distribution systems that meet the high demands of data centre operations, all the while considering how to “commercialise” hscale’s power infrastructure.

Position Overview

hscale is seeking a technically minded, detail-oriented Director of Power (Utility Power Delivery) to lead energisation across new and existing data centre campuses. As the New Site Development owner for power and energy, this role manages the end-to-end utility connection process – from early due diligence and securing preliminary supply through to negotiating, executing, designing, and delivering formal connection agreements – ensuring alignment with design and operational needs. The role also defines and implements hscale’s power and energy strategy in collaboration with our investors. Strong cross-functional coordination with Corporate Development, Site Acquisition, Construction, Operations, and the C-Suite is essential, alongside support throughout the sales cycle, including customer engagement.

Your Role

• Define and deliver HSCALE’s power/energy strategy, aligning growth, ESG, and customer requirements (incl. renewables, PPAs, onsite generation)
• Assess power availability, grid constraints, and energy options to support site selection and early due diligence
• Lead utility and regulatory engagement (TSOs/DSOs), securing capacity, quotes, programmes, and favourable commercial terms
• Own the end-to-end utility connection pathway—from feasibility to executed connection agreements—coordinating closely with Design/Engineering and delivery teams
• Oversee large-scale energisation programmes (c. 300 MW–1 GW), managing scope, schedule, budgets, and supply-chain/partner relationships
• Drive resilience and risk management (redundancy strategies) to meet hyperscale requirements
• Track legislation and policy changes, ensuring compliance with regional regulations, safety standards, and corporate governance
• Provide leadership, continuous improvement (processes/lessons learned), and technical support to Construction, Operations, Sales/Marketing (RFPs, customer materials, handovers, post-build support)

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering, Energy Systems, or a related field
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in large-scale power/energy infrastructure
• Strong grid and utility expertise (operations, transmission planning, distributed generation) plus renewables, storage, and emerging tech (e.g., SMRs)
• Proven experience negotiating PPAs and delivering complex, multi-jurisdiction energy projects
• Solid project management and feasibility-study capability, including benchmarking and data/statistical analysis
• Strong commercial and regulatory awareness (customer requirements, business drivers, financials, legislation)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to lead internal/external teams collaboratively
• Highly adaptable and self-directed, comfortable working remotely, travelling, and across time zones

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The Operations Department

The Operations Department is responsible for the overall health and performance of all mechanical and electrical systems, building maintenance, and data centre modules across our facilities. Our team operates 24×7 with Critical Facility Engineers on each shift, serving as the primary interface with customers and the first line of defense for maintaining uptime and performance standards.

Position Overview

The Operations Transition Manager leads operational readiness for data centre projects, serving as the voice of Operations throughout design, construction, and commissioning phases. Working collaboratively with regional development teams, this role ensures each facility achieves the highest standards in safety, operability, maintainability, and efficiency while maintaining alignment with agreed scope, schedule, and budget parameters. Leveraging deep expertise in critical data centre electrical and mechanical infrastructure, commissioning methodologies, and construction delivery practices, the Operations Transition Manager provides essential operational perspective that constructively shapes design and delivery decisions. The role encompasses site mobilization and transition management across EMEA, driving measurable outcomes in health and safety, security, uptime, performance, and customer satisfaction. Success is built on continuous improvement initiatives, technology innovation adoption, and collaborative leadership practices that build operational excellence across the organization.

Your Role

• Lead end-to-end transition of new facilities into operations, ensuring full operational readiness and zero-downtime handover
• Promote a zero-accident safety culture and drive operational excellence through strong, hands-on leadership
• Ensure all permits, certifications, and compliance requirements are met for successful site operation
• Coordinate Design & Build, Operations, and stakeholders to enable smooth site delivery and effective feedback loops
• Own ready-for-service handover, ensuring zero defects and reporting KPIs and performance to senior management
• Perform post-implementation reviews and root cause analysis, capturing and sharing lessons learned
• Manage Pre-Operations budgets and financial tracking
• Influence site design and processes to improve standardization, scalability, productivity, and operational capability

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Construction, or a related technical field
• 8–10 years of experience in mission-critical data centre or large facility management
• Strong knowledge of local/national safety, regulatory, and environmental requirements
• Deep expertise in data centre infrastructure (power, cooling, networking, security)
• Proven experience assessing project completion and readiness/acceptance criteria
• Experience working with hyperscale customers and building strong client relationships
• Strong project management skills leading large, complex technology projects
• Track record of driving operational excellence via process improvement and innovation
• Excellent communication with on-site teams, vendors, and regional stakeholders
• Willingness to travel up to 50% (primarily EMEA; occasional international)

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The Development Department

The Development team plays a crucial role in the success of the HSCALE product, ensuring the successful establishment, powering, reporting and monitoring, procurement, construction and commissioning of data centre campuses, through to seamless handover to operations. The power team ensures that data centres have a reliable and scalable power supply, coordinating with utility providers and integrating renewable energy sources where possible. They design and implement power distribution systems that meet the high demands of data centre operations, all the while considering how to “commercialise” hscale’s power infrastructure.

Position Overview

HSCALE is seeking a commercially driven, detail-oriented Head of Purchasing to lead purchasing activities across development and construction projects within its growing European data centre portfolio. This role is responsible for managing the procurement and purchasing of goods, materials, equipment, and services required to support successful project delivery across multiple active campuses.

Working closely with Development, Construction, Power, PMO, Finance, Legal, and Operations teams, the role will ensure purchasing processes are scalable, commercially robust, and aligned with project schedules, quality standards, and cost objectives. The successful candidate will play a key role in supplier management, commercial negotiations, contract administration, and purchasing governance within a fast-paced, investor-backed environment.

Your Role

• Lead purchasing activities across development, construction, and infrastructure projects within the HSCALE portfolio
• Manage sourcing, tendering, supplier selection, and purchasing processes for equipment, materials, and services
• Negotiate commercial terms, pricing, framework agreements, and supplier contracts
• Support project teams with procurement planning aligned to programme schedules and critical milestones
• Build and maintain strong relationships with suppliers, manufacturers, contractors, and service providers across EMEA
• Monitor supplier performance, delivery schedules, quality standards, and contractual compliance
• Work closely with Construction, Development, Finance, and Legal teams to ensure purchasing activities support project and business objectives
• Support budgeting, cost control, forecasting, and purchasing reporting activities
• Identify supply chain risks and implement mitigation strategies to reduce commercial and delivery exposure
• Drive continuous improvement across purchasing systems, processes, governance, and supplier management

Your Profile

• Minimum 8–10 years of purchasing, procurement, or supply chain experience from Data Center development environment
• Proven experience managing purchasing activities for large-scale projects or multi-site programmes
• Strong commercial negotiation and supplier management capability
• Experience sourcing construction materials, MEP equipment, technical services, or infrastructure-related packages
• Good understanding of contract management, commercial controls, and purchasing governance
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects and competing priorities simultaneously
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and commercial teams
• Strong analytical capability with attention to detail and reporting accuracy
• Experience working in fast-paced, investor-backed, or international project environments is advantageous
• Flexible, adaptable, and willing to travel across EMEA as required

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The Technology Department

The Technology team at hscale builds the systems, standards, and frameworks behind our hyperscale data centre platform across EMEA. We cover Design, Engineering, Commissioning, Procurement, IT & Cybersecurity, Sustainability, Compliance, and Governance.

We link innovation with delivery: setting design, procurement, and commissioning standards to accelerate new builds, while running secure, resilient IT and compliance environments. With a customer-first, commercially smart approach and strong vendor partnerships, we scale fast and build for the future.

Position Overview

The Electrical Engineering Lead leads and represents the electrical discipline across HSCALE’s EMEA data centre development programme.

The role is accountable for electrical design strategy, standards, and technical assurance, with a focus on lean, scalable, and high capacity power architectures suited to next generation data centres.

Based in Design and Engineering, the role is the electrical authority within the Engineering Centre of Excellence and the primary interface to external electrical consultants and internal stakeholders.

Your Role

• Define, own, and govern HSCALE electrical design standards, reference architectures, and engineering processes.
• Lead electrical system architecture and key technical decisions across all projects.
• Own electrical inputs to the Basis of Design and ensure consistency across projects and phases.
• Drive lean and scalable electrical designs that maximise usable power capacity and minimise trapped capacity.
• Optimise designs for total cost of ownership, balancing CAPEX, OPEX, resilience, and operational flexibility.
• Lead development of next generation power distribution systems suitable for high density and AI driven workloads.
• Provide hands on technical leadership for schematic design, specifications, and design reviews.
• Manage and technically assure external electrical designers and specialist consultants.
• Act as the electrical single point of accountability across Development, Design Management, Procurement, Construction, Commissioning, and Operations.
• Support procurement, commissioning, and transition to operations.
• Drive continuous improvement through lessons learned and standard refinement.

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent.
• Chartered or Professional Engineer status preferred.
• 12 to 18 years of experience in mission critical or data centre electrical engineering.
• Deep hands on expertise in critical power systems, distribution, protection, and utility interfaces.
• Demonstrated experience designing for high density and AI enabled data centres.
• Strong understanding of power efficiency, capacity utilisation, and lifecycle cost optimisation.
• Experience delivering projects across EMEA regulatory and utility environments.
• Comfortable operating as a senior individual contributor with programme level accountability.
• Willingness to travel up to 25% across EMEA.

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