Architect, Data Center Design (EMEA)

Salary Competitive

At Verda, we're building a full-stack AI cloud, covering everything from data centers and hardware to our own cloud platform that the world's leading AI teams use to do serious AI work.

We strive to make a positive mark on the world through the infrastructure we build and give leading teams a service they can truly depend on. Headquartered in Helsinki, we operate globally with offices in London and San Francisco.

Join Verda while it's still being built - not once it's finished.


Why Verda

  • Cash and equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, and more).

  • Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.

  • 30+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.

  • A real chance to make an impact and work alongside world class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.


Practicalities

  • Work mode: Hybrid, based in Helsinki or across EMEA, with travel to sites as projects require.

  • Level: Senior.

  • Employment type: Full time and permanent.


About the role

As Architect you shape the building itself. You will design the envelope and interior layout of our facilities, define security zoning, keep the design compliant with building code, and hold the architectural quality on sites that carry public visibility. You sit at the centre of the design team, translating engineering requirements into a coherent building.


Your responsibilities

  • Design the building envelope and interior space planning and layout

  • Define security zoning within the facility

  • Ensure building code compliance across markets

  • Coordinate architectural aesthetics for facilities with public visibility

  • Work alongside structural, electrical, and mechanical engineering so the architecture and the systems fit together


Your key competencies

The ideal candidate is a qualified architect who has delivered industrial or mission-critical facilities and is comfortable balancing function, compliance, and appearance.

  • Professional degree in Architecture

  • 7 to 10 years of experience, industrial or mission-critical facility design preferred

  • Strong command of building code and permitting

  • Able to coordinate closely with engineering disciplines


Nice to have

  • Data center or other large industrial facility experience

  • Familiarity with building in the Nordics, including local legislation and authorities


What's next

We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move. If this sounds like your next move, apply now.

Please submit your application through our Careers page. We don't accept applications sent by email.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Near public transit
Near public transit

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Pension plan
Pension plan

Paid holiday
Paid holiday

Gym access
Gym access

Maternity / paternity leave
Maternity / paternity leave

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Working at
Verda

Verda is one of the fastest-growing companies in the Nordics, offering a rare opportunity to build the product that will shape the course of our future. Our ambition is to become the world's leading AI and infrastructure company. Our full-stack AI platform is backed by our in-house AI Lab, turning frontier research into customer outcomes and platform capabilities. This has already earned us the trust of 1,000+ companies across 50+ markets.

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