Master Planning Manager Data Center

Join Digital Realty's Development, Engineering & Construction team as Master Planning Manager (f/m/d) and play a key role in shaping new data center development opportunities across the EMEA region. In this role, you will lead early-stage master planning and technical due diligence activities, transforming architectural concepts into decision-ready development and investment strategies.

Your Role

• Lead front-end master planning, technical due diligence and early-stage evaluation activities for new data center development opportunities, including land, campus and single-building projects.
• Develop and refine master plans, block plans, option studies and high-level concepts to evaluate capacity, layout and technical feasibility.
• Translate architectural direction into decision-ready development packages, including key metrics, site constraints, risks and planning recommendations.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary inputs from Acquisitions, Design, Engineering, Construction and external consultants to support investment and development decisions.
• Manage and maintain master planning project briefs, ensuring clear version control, stakeholder alignment and design traceability throughout the review process.
• Support feasibility studies, technical due diligence and consultant workstreams, consolidating technical, cost and programme information for opportunity assessments.
• Prepare presentations and development materials for internal reviews, gating processes and investment decision-making.
• Drive consistency, innovation and continuous improvement across master planning processes, documentation standards, templates and opportunity evaluation frameworks, promoting the use of digital tools, automation and data-driven methodologies to improve quality, efficiency and scalability.
• Maintain high-quality project records and documentation to ensure continuity, transparency and auditability throughout early-stage project development.

• Drive the digitalisation and continuous improvement of master planning workflows, leveraging technology, automation, data analytics and AI-enabled tools to enhance efficiency, consistency, decision-making and project delivery. 

• Champion innovation across early-stage development activities by identifying, evaluating and implementing digital solutions, new technologies and process improvements that streamline technical due diligence, planning evaluations and stakeholder collaboration.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Urban Design, Planning or a related built-environment discipline; Master's degree or professional registration is advantageous.
• A minimum of 5 years architectural data centre design experience
• Proven experience in architectural design and master planning, ideally within data center, mission-critical, industrial or large-scale infrastructure developments.
• Experience delivering and reviewing master planning, concept design and early-stage development projects from opportunity evaluation through investment decision-making.
• Strong understanding of site planning, zoning, infrastructure, power, technical due diligence and feasibility assessments.
• Solid knowledge of the interaction between architectural, civil, structural, mechanical, electrical and ICT systems.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary stakeholders, including acquisitions, engineering, construction teams and external consultants.
• Proficiency with CAD, BIM and document management tools used for architectural and master planning deliverables.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate technical information into clear, decision-ready outputs.
• Highly organized with strong attention to detail, capable of managing multiple projects, priorities and information streams simultaneously.
• Proactive, collaborative and solutions-oriented, with a continuous improvement mindset.

A Bit About Us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data centre platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data centre footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter .

What We Can Offer You

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers.

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us.

Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.

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Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.