Senior Manager, Data Center Commissioning & Validation

Job Description

As Senior Commissioning Validation Manager, you will lead commissioning validation governance for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center delivery programs, ensuring critical electrical, mechanical, controls, life-safety, and supporting infrastructure systems are tested, validated, documented, and accepted before operational turnover. This role provides site- and program-level leadership across commissioning readiness, test execution oversight, issue resolution, and acceptance quality for new builds, expansions, retrofits, and high-priority capacity programs.

You will serve as a senior people leader within the Data Center Commissioning organization, partnering with Construction, Engineering, Site Deployment, Facilities Operations, Reliability, Security, Network, Supply Chain, and third-party commissioning agents to drive predictable, safe, and auditable commissioning outcomes. The role requires deep mission-critical infrastructure judgment, strong field execution discipline, and the ability to lead managers, engineers, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders through complex commissioning milestones.

This is not a purely administrative project management role. It is a technical commissioning leadership role responsible for ensuring installed systems perform as designed, commissioning evidence is complete, risks are surfaced early, and operational teams receive facilities that are ready to run without latent defects or unresolved acceptance risk.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead commissioning validation execution across assigned data center sites, campuses, regions, or major capacity programs, with accountability for readiness, test governance, quality, safety, and operational acceptance.

• Own commissioning validation standards for L1-L5 activities, including factory witness testing, pre-functional checks, functional performance testing, integrated systems testing, failure-mode validation, sequence-of-operations verification, and turnover documentation.

• Provide technical and management oversight of internal commissioning teams, commissioning agents, general contractors, trade partners, equipment vendors, and other third-party service providers.

• Partner with Engineering and Construction teams to review design intent, submittals, commissioning plans, method statements, test scripts, acceptance criteria, and system readiness before field execution.

• Ensure commissioning activities validate critical MEP and controls systems, including medium- and low-voltage power distribution, generators, UPS systems, switchgear, HVAC, chilled water systems, pumps, BMS, EPMS, SCADA/DCIM interfaces, fire/life-safety systems, and supporting infrastructure.

• Drive commissioning schedule integration with construction completion, site readiness, network deployment, rack energization, operations staffing, CMMS activation, and customer capacity milestones.

• Identify commissioning risks, blockers, failed test conditions, recurring deficiencies, documentation gaps, and acceptance issues; drive clear ownership, escalation, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and closure discipline.

• Establish portfolio-level reporting for commissioning progress, defect aging, test completion, system readiness, vendor performance, safety observations, punch-list health, and operational turnover risk.

• Ensure commissioning deliverables meet OCI standards for safety, quality, operability, maintainability, security, compliance, and long-term operations supportability.

• Lead continuous improvement of commissioning playbooks, validation templates, test-script quality, lessons learned, vendor scorecards, and readiness gates across the data center delivery lifecycle.

• Develop and coach commissioning managers and senior technical contributors, building capability, accountability, and consistent execution practices across the organization.

• Represent commissioning status, risk, and acceptance recommendations to senior leaders, ensuring executive communications are clear, evidence-based, and tied to business-critical capacity delivery decisions.

Responsibilities

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 5-7+ years of experience in data center commissioning, mission-critical facilities, electrical/mechanical infrastructure delivery, critical facilities operations, construction quality, or similarly complex infrastructure environments.

• 5+ years of experience leading teams, managers, contractors, or commissioning partners in large-scale, schedule-driven, high-reliability environments.

• Deep experience with data center commissioning workflows, including pre-functional testing, functional testing, integrated systems testing, factory witness testing, site acceptance testing, failure-mode validation, and operational turnover.

• Strong technical command of electrical, mechanical, controls, and life-safety systems used in high-availability data center environments.

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex commissioning schedules, cross-functional dependencies, vendor performance, field quality, issue resolution, and executive-level risk communication.

• Experience building or improving commissioning standards, test scripts, readiness gates, acceptance packages, operating rhythms, and performance reporting mechanisms.

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, Facilities Engineering, or related field preferred; equivalent mission-critical experience will be considered.

Skills and Competencies

• Senior-level commissioning leadership in mission-critical, hyperscale, industrial, utility, or other uptime-critical environments.

• Strong field judgment with the ability to challenge incomplete evidence, weak test scripts, premature acceptance, and unresolved risk before turnover.

• Ability to translate technical commissioning findings into clear business, schedule, safety, reliability, and operational-risk recommendations.

• Strong stakeholder management across engineering, construction, operations, deployment, network, safety, security, vendors, and executive leadership.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including concise reporting, executive escalation, issue framing, and action tracking.

• High attention to detail in commissioning documentation, evidence review, punch-list closure, readiness certification, and turnover package quality.

• Bias for structured execution, accountability, repeatable mechanisms, and continuous improvement across multiple sites or programs.

• Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-visibility environments where capacity delivery, uptime, safety, quality, and compliance are all critical.

Preferred Skills / Certifications

• Experience in hyperscale cloud data centers, colocation campuses, semiconductor facilities, utilities, power generation, or large industrial infrastructure portfolios is strongly preferred.

• Professional Engineering (PE), Certified Commissioning Professional (CCP), Certified Commissioning Authority (CxA), PMP, LEED AP, or equivalent technical credential is a plus.

• Familiarity with commissioning standards and methods such as ASHRAE commissioning principles, NETA testing practices, NFPA requirements, NEC, OSHA, local authority requirements, and applicable reliability or quality frameworks.

• Experience with commissioning management platforms, punch-list systems, CMMS, BMS, EPMS, SCADA, DCIM, asset management, document control, change management, and operational reporting tools.

• Experience managing third-party commissioning agents, general contractors, trade partners, equipment vendors, testing firms, and owner's representatives.

• Experience validating control sequences, automation logic, alarm response, failover behavior, emergency operating modes, and integrated system performance.

Physical Demands / Work Environment

This is a mission-critical commissioning leadership role supporting active construction, retrofit, and operational data center environments where safety, uptime, and execution quality are essential. Regular attendance, travel, schedule flexibility, and availability during major commissioning milestones, integrated systems testing, energization activities, or critical escalations may be required.

To perform these duties, you must be able to move between office, campus, construction, commissioning, and active operational environments; walk sites; climb stairs; inspect infrastructure spaces; participate in field validation reviews; and safely engage in commissioning readiness activities, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Market Alignment

This role profile reflects common marketplace expectations for senior data center commissioning leadership roles at hyperscale and mission-critical infrastructure organizations. Comparable postings emphasize testing and validation oversight of electrical and mechanical infrastructure, factory witness testing, pre-functional and functional testing, integrated systems testing, third-party commissioning vendor governance, design and submittal review, scope/schedule/budget alignment, capacity delivery, cross-functional coordination with engineering/construction/operations/network teams, and operational acceptance readiness.

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

• Global impact at scale: Contribute directly to the safe, reliable, and predictable delivery of OCI data center capacity across regions and continents.

• Technically rigorous environment: Work alongside experienced engineering, construction, commissioning, automation, reliability, and operations teams in a rapidly scaling hyperscale cloud infrastructure environment.

• Culture built on operational excellence: Join an organization that values safety, process discipline, evidence-based acceptance, accountability, and continuous improvement as foundational to protecting uptime and customer trust.

• Long-term career development: Benefit from internal mobility, technical development, and growth opportunities for professionals building long-term careers in cloud infrastructure, commissioning, and mission-critical operations.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - M3

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