Senior Director, SCADA and Controls Engineering

Job Description

The Senior Director, SCADA and Controls [JB1] Engineering. Controls leads the strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and delivery enablement for data center controls systems across a global portfolio. This role drives the design and development of Building Management Systems (BMS), Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS), Building Automation Systems (BAS), and SCADA platforms to ensure safe, reliable, scalable, and efficient operations for large, high-availability and AI-infrastructure data center programs.

This leader partners closely with Data Center Design/Build teams, Network and Security, Operations, Reliability Engineering, and key vendors to define repeatable reference architectures, govern designs through structured reviews, and ensure operational outcomes are achieved through design, commissioning and lifecycle support.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Strategy, Architecture, and Standards

• Define global controls strategy for BMS/EPMS/BAS/SCADA capabilities aligned to OCI's reliability, scalability, and security requirements.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards, specifications, and reference designs for controls systems (including topology, protocols, naming conventions, alarming philosophy, historian requirements, time sync, and redundancy).
• Own the controls portions of Architect Design Guidelines (ADGs), templates, Basis of Design (BoD), and design specifications to enable repeatable deployment across multiple site types and project models.
• Drive standardization of approved components, vendor qualification criteria, and lifecycle management (e.g., obsolescence planning, spares strategy, patching windows).

Engineering Leadership & Project Enablement

• Lead controls engineering teams (internal and partner resources) delivering designs across the entire OCI portfolio.
• Provide technical direction to ensure BMS/EPMS/SCADA designs integrate effectively with mechanical, electrical, controls, network, and security requirements.
• Govern project execution through milestone design reviews, compliance checks, and exception/waiver management; ensure issues are documented, risk-assessed, and resolved.
• Ensure designs are constructible, modular, and support speed-to-market without compromising reliability or safety.

Reliability, Commissioning, and Operational Performance

• Define controls commissioning criteria, functional testing standards, and acceptance requirements (including integrated systems testing).
• Establish alarming, event management, and escalation philosophies that support operations at scale and reduce alert fatigue.
• Drive reliability programs such as redundancy validation, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), incident postmortems, and continuous improvement actions for controls systems.
• Partner with operations to ensure usability, maintainability, and training readiness for new deployments.

Cybersecurity, Network, and Compliance

• Ensure controls platforms meet enterprise security and compliance expectations, including segmentation/zone models, identity/access controls, logging, and secure remote access patterns.
• Partner with security and network engineering to define approved architectures for OT/controls networking, protocol enablement, and monitoring.
• Ensure documentation, change control, and configuration management practices support auditability and operational rigor.

Vendor & Stakeholder Management

• Build strategic relationships with key controls vendors and integrators; manage performance, deliverables, and alignment to standards.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders and executive leadership on controls-related priorities, investments, and risk tradeoffs.
• Support sourcing and contract language development for controls scopes (standards adherence, cybersecurity clauses, commissioning deliverables, SLAs).

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years in mission-critical/data center engineering, including 7+ years leading controls/BMS/EPMS/SCADA engineering or equivalent OT systems.
• Demonstrated experience delivering controls systems for large-scale data centers or critical infrastructure (e.g., hyperscale, colocation, industrial, utility, semiconductor).
• Experience developing scalable tag standardization frameworks and naming conventions to ensure consistency across campuses and enable portfolio-level analytics.
• Familiarity with MQTT, OPC UA, BACnet/IP, Modbus TCP, and other industrial communication protocols used in large-scale data center environments.
• Experience implementing secure remote access architectures and cybersecurity best practices for distributed controls systems, including network segmentation and role-based access control.
• Demonstrated ability to lead fleet-wide controls standardization efforts across new builds, retrofits, and operational campuses.
• Expert knowledge of:
  • BMS/BAS architectures, EPMS monitoring, and SCADA/historian patternsRedundant system design, alarming/event management, and controls commissioning
  • OT networking concepts (segmentation, resiliency, time sync) and secure remote access fundamentals
  • Proven leadership experience managing senior engineers and external engineering/integration partners across multiple concurrent projects.
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical detail into clear standards, governance outcomes, and executive-level decisions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI/HPC infrastructure demands and high-density thermal/electrical monitoring requirements.
• Familiarity with common protocols and integration methods (e.g., BACnet, Modbus, SNMP, OPC UA) and enterprise telemetry pipelines.
• Experience establishing global standards programs (templates, reference designs, waiver processes, component approvals).
• Understanding of sustainability/efficiency metrics and how controls strategies support energy and water optimization.
• BS in Electrical/Mechanical/Controls Engineering or related field; advanced degree a plus.
• Deep expertise with Ignition SCADA (Inductive Automation), including enterprise architecture design, gateway network configurations, tag strategy, historian architecture, security hardening, and large-scale deployment across multiple mission-critical facilities.
• Proven experience designing and deploying enterprise-level SCADA architectures that integrate numerous geographically distributed data centers into a unified operational dashboard.
• Demonstrated success aggregating and normalizing telemetry from multiple sites (BMS, EPMS, PLCs, RTUs, meters, environmental monitoring, etc.) into a centralized data platform to enable fleet-wide visibility, benchmarking, and performance optimization.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $141,200 to $338,500 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 - M5

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