Data Center Program Manager

Delan Associates, Inc

About The Position

The Data Center Program Manager will provide leadership, advisory, and deployment planning and oversight for the Siemens data center initiative. This role involves managing multiple major data center initiatives, including expansions and co-location deployments, and associated site consolidations. The Program Manager will be responsible for maintaining milestone schedules, facilitating communication between stakeholders, identifying risks and blockers, and overseeing physical and technical infrastructure deployment and vendor management. The position also includes workload assessments, site planning (space, power, cooling), developing deployment strategies, evaluating co-location services, and migration planning. Throughout the program, general project management support activities will be performed, including participating in status meetings, facilitating planning sessions, developing and maintaining milestone plans, and providing program reporting to senior management.

Requirements

Continental US-based, any time zone
Provide program management of the data center initiatives.
Maintain a milestone schedule of DC deployments and consolidation activities.
Assist in communication between Siemens data center stakeholders, team members, and core technology vendors, and management.
Ensure identification of gaps, risks, blockers, needed escalations, and driving of committed schedules of the data center initiatives.
Data center physical and technical infrastructure deployment oversight and vendor management.
Data center workload assessments.
Site planning for data center space, physical infrastructure, power, cooling.
Continued development of data center deployment strategies based upon Siemens requirements.
Evaluation and sourcing of co-location services.
Migration planning.
Perform general project management support activities.
Participate in regular meetings with Siemens management to review projects status.
Facilitate and participate in planning and deployment meetings with core data center team members.
Ensure a development and maintenance of data center program milestone plans that includes critical path, equipment provisioning, deployment and migration.
Provide program reporting, status, charts, dashboards and Sr management reporting.
Leads efforts to plan, manage and oversee data center migration.
Deployment of data center infrastructure and migration of computing equipment and associated systems and business applications to new data center facilities.
Manage and coordination of the Migration project office resources.
Works under the Client senior management and reports on activities and progress of the data center deployment and migration.
Responsible for the data center IT Infrastructure deployment and the migration of systems, equipment and application and services.
Communication and execution of migration planning processes within the broader IT Infrastructure and application migration teams.
Ensure production and quality of planning artifacts and deliverables.
Planning and coordinate all IT Infrastructure and application migration cutover activities.
Develop and manage Migration project schedules, budgets, resources, change requests, escalation and risk assessment.
Execution of Project communication plan.
Ensure communication of migration methodologies, concepts and details to project team and management.
Work within a Program Office structure working closely with a Director of PMO, Operations and Infrastructure managers, technology integrators and IT team members to ensure quality and timely project delivery.
Understand the technical aspects of data center / IT infrastructure support and delivery, and ITSM principles.
Leverage strong technical PM background and understanding of tasks required to deliver multiple IT infrastructure projects and initiatives including network, platform and storage infrastructure.
Communicate technical concepts and details to project team and management.
Maintain a working understanding of the inter-dependencies between technical tasks.
Ensure appropriate/optimal engagement of delivery resources.
Develop high-level and detail project plans.
Ensure the scope and approach are understood by all project team members and stakeholders.
Produce project status reporting.
Direct and monitor work effort on a regular basis.
Identify and track key project milestones and measurement reporting (base-lining, critical path).
Monitor and communicate the progress of project delivery, to include status reporting of cost, schedule and assessment of risks/issues.
Negotiate and influence cross-functional teams to ensure appropriate resourcing levels are engaged and maintained throughout the course of the project life cycle.
Manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.

Nice To Haves

Coordination of 5 major Data Center initiatives - 2 DC expansions and 3 major colocation site deployments and associated site consolidations
Detroit area DC deployment (co-lo) and migration from legacy DC
Expansion of existing Ireland data center
India DC deployment (co-lo) and migration from legacy DC
CA Regional engineering campus consolidation
Consolidation of ~20 global engineering lab sites into regional data centers
Expansion of existing Oregon data center
Deployment of a US West data center (colo)

Responsibilities

Provide program management of the data center initiatives, including maintaining a milestone schedule of DC deployments and consolidation activities.
Assist in communication between Siemens data center stakeholders, team members, core technology vendors, and management.
Ensure identification of gaps, risks, blockers, needed escalations, and driving of committed schedules of the data center initiatives.
Oversee data center physical and technical infrastructure deployment and vendor management.
Conduct data center workload assessments.
Perform site planning for data center space, physical infrastructure, power, and cooling.
Continue development of data center deployment strategies based upon Siemens requirements.
Evaluate and source co-location services.
Manage migration planning.
Perform general project management support activities, including participating in regular meetings with Siemens management to review project status.
Facilitate and participate in planning and deployment meetings with core data center team members.
Ensure development and maintenance of data center program milestone plans that include critical path, equipment provisioning, deployment, and migration.
Provide program reporting, status, charts, dashboards, and senior management reporting.
Lead efforts to plan, manage, and oversee data center migration, including deployment of data center infrastructure and migration of computing equipment and associated systems and business applications to new data center facilities.
Manage and coordinate Migration Project Office resources.
Develop and manage Migration project schedules, budgets, resources, change requests, escalations, and risk assessments.
Execute the Project communication plan.
Ensure communication of migration methodologies, concepts, and details to the project team and management.
Work within a Program Office structure, closely with a Director of PMO, Operations and Infrastructure managers, technology integrators, and IT team members to ensure quality and timely project delivery.
Understand the technical aspects of data center / IT infrastructure support and delivery, and ITSM principles.
Leverage strong technical PM background and understanding of tasks required to deliver multiple IT infrastructure projects and initiatives, including network, platform, and storage infrastructure.
Communicate technical concepts and details to the project team and management.
Maintain a working understanding of the inter-dependencies between technical tasks.
Ensure appropriate/optimal engagement of delivery resources.
Develop high-level and detailed project plans.
Ensure the scope and approach are understood by all project team members and stakeholders.
Produce project status reporting.
Direct and monitor work effort on a regular basis.
Identify and track key project milestones and measurement reporting (base-lining, critical path).
Monitor and communicate the progress of project delivery, including status reporting of cost, schedule, and assessment of risks/issues.
Negotiate and influence cross-functional teams to ensure appropriate resourcing levels are engaged and maintained throughout the project life cycle.
Manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.