<p>At <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/montera">Montera</a>, we’re building the future of digital infrastructure. Founder-led with $1.5B backed by Stonepeak, <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/montera">Montera</a> is driven by a future-focused vision: to develop and operate hyperscale data centers essential for tomorrow's technology. Our mission is to deliver strategically located, hyperscale data centers designed for speed, reliability, and scalability. Backed by decades of experience in design, construction, and operations, we don’t just build—we execute with purpose. </p><h3>Our Values </h3><ul><li>Client First Alignment: We align every solution to our clients’ goals. </li></ul><ul><li>Speed with Certainty: Velocity matters. We deliver with urgency and precision. </li></ul><ul><li>Operational Excellence: Decades of experience drive our high standards. </li></ul><ul><li>Safety &amp; Integrity: Safety is non-negotiable. We lead with integrity and transparency. </li></ul><ul><li>Ownership Mentality: We think like owners, because we are. </li></ul><h3>The Opportunity </h3><p><a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/montera">Montera</a> is seeking a Vice President Data Center Design leads the delivery of <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/montera">Montera</a>’s facility designs across the portfolio. Reporting to the CTO, the VP owns design execution end to end — from reference architecture through IFC and construction support — and is the senior leader of <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/montera">Montera</a>’s Principal Engineering &amp; Architecture Leadership family and its external design and construction partners. </p><p>This is a people-leadership and delivery-accountability role, distinct from the CTO’s external technical and customer-facing mandate. The CTO owns customer requirements capture and is the technical external face of <a href="https://himalayas.app/companies/montera">Montera</a>; the VP converts those requirements into buildable, coordinated, on-schedule designs and drives them through the design and construction partner ecosystem (CSA, MEP, design-assist trades, GC/CM, and specialty consultants) to a predictable, commissioned outcome. </p><p>The VP manages the five Principal ICs — Architect &amp; Master Planning, Electrical, Mechanical, Controls, and Network — aligning their reference architectures into a single coherent facility design, resolving cross-discipline conflicts, and holding the integrated design schedule and budget. The role is accountable for design quality, constructability, multi-discipline coordination, and the design inputs to cost, schedule, and availability targets across active projects (currently Eagle and Goldeneye) and the broader pipeline. </p><h3>Requirements</h3><h3>What You'll Do </h3><h3>Design Delivery &amp; Program Execution </h3><ul><li>Own end-to-end design delivery across the portfolio — concept, SD, DD, IFP/IFC, and construction-phase support — against committed sche