Senior Electrical Design Engineer
Khazna Data Centers
Role:About the Company
Khazna is at the forefront of data center technology, pioneering solutions that combine innovation, resiliency, and sustainability. We empower governments, businesses, and societies to thrive in the AI age with data centers that are designed to handle the high-density computing requirements essential for the next-generation applications powering the future economy.
Khazna’s expanding network of data centers safeguard data, provide trusted turnkey solutions, empower ICT strategies, and enable digital transformation for world-class organizations. Khazna offers highly secure, efficient, reliable, and scalable data center spaces, designed to meet the ever-growing demands placed on businesses today.
Our mission is to build and orchestrate a comprehensive ecosystem through state-of-the-art data centers that safeguard data, provide trusted turnkey solutions, empower ICT strategies, and enable digital transformation for world-class organizations through highly secure, efficient, reliable, and scalable facilities.
Job Purpose
The Senior Design Engineer Electrical is responsible for providing senior technical leadership and assurance for end-to-end electrical design delivery across mission-critical facilities (e.g., data centers). The role covers the full design lifecycle from concept through detailed design, IFC/IFD, and shop drawings ensuring safe, resilient, scalable, and fully compliant electrical systems.
The role acts as an electrical design authority across multiple projects, leading design reviews, resolving complex technical issues, driving standardization and value engineering, and ensuring alignment with Employer’s Requirements (ER), availability and redundancy targets, statutory authority requirements, and applicable international codes and standards.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Full Lifecycle Design Participation:
Collaborate with Line manager and contribute to all pre-construction design phases, including concept design, schematic design, detailed design, and shop drawing reviews, ensuring electrical infrastructure is scalable, resilient, and fully aligned with mission-critical facility standards.
Own and safeguard the electrical design integrity across all project stages (Concept, Schematic, Detailed/IFC, Shop Drawings).
Define, maintain, and enforce electrical design standards, typical details, and calculation templates.
Lead design assurance reviews, technical risk assessments, and peer reviews to identify safety risks, compliance gaps, and single points of failure.
Drive standardization, lessons learned, and continuous improvement across projects.
Design Review – Consultants & Contractors
Conduct senior-level technical reviews of electrical design deliverables and calculations, including:
LV/MV single-line diagrams
Load schedules and demand analysis
Fault level, load flow, arc flash, and protection coordination studies
Earthing and lightning protection systems
Power quality and harmonics
Review generator, UPS, and power resilience architectures (N, N+1, 2N as applicable), including sizing, autonomy, synchronization, maintenance bypass, and integration with overall power architecture.
Ensure coordination of electrical systems with civil, structural, mechanical, IT, security, and operational requirements.
Equipment & Material Submittals
Review and approve technical submittals for critical equipment, including MV/LV switchgear, transformers, generators, UPS systems, batteries, ATS/STS, and related infrastructure.
Verify ratings, fault withstand capability, selective coordination, maintainability, and interface compatibility.
Assess vendor data, testing requirements, warranties, and long-lead items to protect project schedule and performance objectives.
Authorities & Utilities Interface
Manage technical coordination with utilities and statutory authorities (e.g., DEWA/ADDC/Etihad WE/FEWA, Civil Defense, regulators).
Prepare and validate compliance matrices, authority submissions, and technical justifications.
Address authority comments and ensure timely approvals.
Procurement, Testing & Commissioning Support
Provide technical input to RFPs, specifications, bid evaluations, and clarifications.
Support vendor selection based on technical compliance and lifecycle value.
Participate in FAT, SAT, and commissioning readiness reviews by validating test procedures, acceptance criteria, and documentation.
Construction Support & Handover
Respond to RFIs and TQs during construction and resolve design-site conflicts through controlled change management.
Ensure completeness of handover documentation, including as-builts, relay settings, test reports, O&M manuals, and spares lists.
Support operational readiness and knowledge transfer to Facilities and Operations teams.
Quality, HSE & Continuous Improvement
Ensure compliance with company QMS, HSE, and electrical safety requirements (e.g., IEC, IEEE, NFPA 70E).
Embed safe-by-design principles and maintenance access considerations.
Contribute to post-project reviews and update standards to improve reliability, cost efficiency, and delivery outcomes.
QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS
Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering.
Professional registration (PE, CEng, or equivalent) is an advantage.
Minimum Experience:
8+ years of progressive electrical design experience.
Strong exposure to mission-critical facilities (data centres) and/or large-scale infrastructure projects.
Proven experience leading design reviews, authority approvals, and multidisciplinary coordination.
Job-Specific Skills (Generic / Technical):
Strong knowledge of IEC, IEEE, NFPA, and BS standards.
Proficiency in power system studies tools (e.g., ETAP, SKM, or equivalent).
Solid understanding of redundancy philosophies and high-availability design.
Familiarity with BIM coordination and document control workflows.