Director, Data Center Facilities Development

Job Description

Oversees the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring successful delivery of projects within the established timeline, budget, and quality parameters. Provides high-level leadership to project managers, setting strategic goals and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. Directs the creation, review, and maintenance of documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving papers. Directs the oversight of quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards. Leads strategic site walks and oversees the startup and commissioning phases of major data center projects. Addresses gaps in risk identification and mitigation, and communicates potential impacts to executive leadership. Directs the role of primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers. Oversees the selection, negotiation, and management of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring contract compliance and performance and construction activities align with the approved design plans and specifications. Oversees the installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to quality standards and managing high-impact installation resolutions.

Responsibilities

KeyResponsibilities
Construction Project Management-Project Planning and Execution:-Oversees the construction of data centers bycolocation providers, ensuring successful delivery of projects within theestablished timeline, budget, and quality parameters.-Develops, maintains, and oversees projectschedules, ensuring effective coordination with colocation providers foron-time milestone achievement.
-Leads the creation, management, and optimizationof project budgets, ensuring strategic resource allocation and cost-efficiencythroughout the project.
-Provides high-level leadership to projectmanagers, setting strategic goals and ensuring alignment with organizationalobjectives.
-Directs the creation, review, and maintenance ofdocumentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solvingpapers, ensuring organizational standards are upheld, documents are managed anddelivered effectively, and all materials are suitable for their intendedpurpose.
Construction Project Management-Project Integration and Quality Assurance:-Directs the oversight of quality controlprocesses to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications andindustry standards.
-Directs the coordination and integration oftenant fit out projects, developing strategies to enhance efficiency andcollaboration during design, construction, and commissioning phases.-Leads strategic site walks to ensure scheduleadherence, coordination, and quality throughout the project lifecycle.-Oversees the startup and commissioning phases ofmajor data center projects, ensuring all systems are operational and meetdesign specifications.
Risk and Problem Management:
-Directs the evaluation of risk profilesassociated with timely project delivery across a portfolio of projects.-Addresses gaps in risk identification andmitigation, and communicates potential impacts to executive leadership.-Develops and ensures the execution ofcomprehensive mitigation strategies for major construction project risks toensure overall project success.
Stakeholder and Vendor Management:
-Directs the role of primary point of contactbetween the company and colocation providers, ensuring clear and effectivecommunication and integrative solutions across the organization.-Develops and maintains strategic relationships tosupport internal and external stakeholders at a senior level, drivingorganizational strategy and business objectives.
-Oversees the selection, negotiation, andmanagement of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers,ensuring contract compliance and performance, and managing high-impact contractresolutions.
Design Coordination and Improvement:
-Directs collaboration with design teams to ensurethat construction activities align with the approved design plans andspecifications, integrating solutions across the organization.-Provides high-level colocation providerevaluation input for continuous improvement, driving organizational strategyand business objectives.
-Oversees the installation of power, cooling,networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to qualitystandards and managing high-impact installation resolutions.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Oversees and guides multiple teams on managingcomplex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, andbudgets when applicable to ensure strategic objectives are met. Serves as arole model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuringalignment with business needs. Coaches others on adjusting resources or projecttimelines in anticipation of business changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Role models leading cross-functionalcollaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategicobjectives. Empowers team to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders,stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute toorganizational success. Drives transparency and inclusivity by modelingactively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.Problem Solving:
-Shares problem-solving strategies across teams,providing oversight on complex operational and/or technical issues, as needed.Coaches teams on analyzing highly complex data and/or information to identifysolutions to ambiguous issues, and provides direction on identifying rootcauses to prevent recurrence of issues.
Continuous Learning:
-Pursues strategic learning opportunities tomaintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level.Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise innew areas, coaching them to build innovative skills. Identifies skill gaptrends across the organization, and upholds a culture that places significantemphasis on sharing knowledge and pursuing learning opportunities that advancethe organization. Evaluates efficiency of learning strategies and recommendsadjustments as needed.
Continuous Improvement:
-Empowers team to own the development andimplementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness ofprocesses, protocols, and workflows across the department. Coaches teams togain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods forcontinued improvement. Prioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvementinitiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return oninvestments.
Performance and Development:
-Serves as a role model for driving performanceacross teams through tailored feedback and coaching in alignment withperformance management processes, guidelines, and expectations. Drivesconsistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializesperformance expectations across the organization. Ensures that individualdevelopment goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives.Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotionprocesses.

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: $139,400 to $291,800 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 - M4

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