Lodha Developers - ESG Lead - Data Centers

ESG Lead - Data Centers:

10-15 years, including energy/carbon accounting or renewable procurement, and a regulated infrastructure/utility background.

Role:

Own the sustainability strategy for Lodha's data centre park end to end: set targets jointly with Design/Engineering, run certification and disclosure, and be the credible face of the programme to tenants, rating agencies, lenders and regulators.

Key responsibilities:

- Strategy and governance: Set the sustainability strategy and target-setting process for the park, in partnership with Design/Engineering. Run regular ESG board reviews and co-own related capex decisions with the business head.

- Certification and disclosure: Run the relevant global sustainability certifications and disclosure filings (energy, carbon, ESG ratings, green building) end to end. Publish the annual sustainability report and a quarterly benchmarking scorecard against global data centre operators.

- Energy strategy: Define the renewable and carbon-free energy strategy for the park.

- PUE and cooling policy: Set PUE targets and cooling policy across the park's facility types.

- Water strategy: Lead the recycled-water and water-positive strategy, including infrastructure and municipal partnerships.

- Carbon and net zero: Drive the Scope 1/2/3 programme, including emissions targets and embodied carbon disclosure.

- Land and microclimate: Shape the biodiversity and green-infrastructure strategy for the site.

- Commercial integration: Work with the commercial team on how sustainability is positioned and priced across tenant segments.

- Regulatory and policy: Represent the business in policy engagement on power, renewable energy and sustainability regulation relevant to the sector.

Candidate profile:

- Fluency in at least two of: power procurement/PPA structuring, data centre cooling engineering (PUE, DLC, WUE), carbon accounting (Scope 1/2/3, SBTi), water/wastewater infrastructure.

- Working knowledge of hyperscaler sustainability procurement practice at benchmarking depth, not citation depth.

- Operational experience on at least one major sustainability certification or disclosure programme (RE100, SBTi, GRESB, CDP, LEED or equivalent).

- Comfort with Indian regulatory frameworks relevant to power and renewable energy procurement.

- Able to hold a technical argument with Clients, MEP engineers, Power Trading Teams, investors and rating-agency analysts.