Technical Team Lead - Data Centres

Company: ARCADIS

Location: Glasgow

Posted: April 30th, 2026

Role description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

The Data Centre Technical Team lead (TL) are technical owners of a project, which are related technically and/or are within the same product domain. This role will require travel if requested, for workshop, milestone meetings, Factory Test Witness, etc. Mainly in EMEA region.

Role accountabilities

Technical Leadership

A TL shows strategic leadership by transforming business problems and PRDs into technical specifications. They set the strategy for the project and create the technical roadmap. This includes creating the core design, making technology choices and getting buy-in. They are the final decision maker and tie breaker for technical decisions for the team.

Technical Competence

The TL shows deep expertise in the core technologies used in the project. They know the system, its dependencies and the history of key technical decisions. They are capable of executing any technical task on a project.

Product Knowledge and Leadership

A TL has the full end to end understanding of a product or service and contributes to influence the product strategy. In some cases where there is no dedicated product owner, the TL will act as the product owner.

Team Leadership

Acting as a role model for their team, the TL scales through others. They delegate effectively, rally the team, mentor and keep the team focused and healthy.

Communication

The TL is the main engineering representative for the project and the team who is responsible for effectively communicating the strategy, design, decisions, solutions and product status to key stakeholders like VPs.

Individual Contribution

A TL solves deep complex technical problems effectively (according to level), is expected to be highly productive and makes significant contributions to the project.

Qualifications & Experience

Experience

Skills

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.

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