Boden Talent · 5 hours ago
Technical Director – Global Critical Environments
Boden Talent is supporting a client, a global operator within critical environments, in appointing a Global Technical Director to lead the technical and reliability strategy across a major enterprise data centre portfolio. This senior leadership role involves full accountability for operational resilience and technical excellence, driving standardisation and continuous improvement while ensuring compliance and supporting capital planning.
Responsibilities
Lead and deliver the global technical and reliability strategy
Own technical governance, standards, and best-practice implementation
Lead the Central Technical / Centre of Excellence team
Act as senior technical interface with the client and key stakeholders
Ensure plant availability, resilience, and SLA performance across all sites
Lead incident response, RCA, and emergency preparedness
Oversee technical compliance, audits, statutory obligations, and safety
Support capital planning, design reviews, vendor performance, and cost optimisation
Drive continuous improvement across operations, systems, and processes
Qualification
Required
Proven senior leadership background in technical operations or reliability
Engineering qualification (Electrical, Mechanical, or Controls)
Strong understanding of redundancy, resilience, and operational risk
Confident working at board, client, and operational levels
Commercially and contractually astute with excellent communication skills
Preferred
Experience in critical environments (data centres preferred)
Company
Boden Talent
Boden Talent is a U.S.-based recruitment partner specializing in Facilities Management and Commercial Real Estate.
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase