Director, Data Center Facilities Development

Oracle•United States,

47d

About The Position

This role oversees the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring successful delivery of projects within the established timeline, budget, and quality parameters. The Director will develop, maintain, and oversee project schedules, ensuring effective coordination with colocation providers for on-time milestone achievement. This position leads the creation, management, and optimization of project budgets, ensuring strategic resource allocation and cost-efficiency throughout the project. The Director provides high-level leadership to project managers, setting strategic goals and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. Additionally, this role directs the creation, review, and maintenance of documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving papers, ensuring organizational standards are upheld, documents are managed and delivered effectively, and all materials are suitable for their intended purpose. The Director also directs the oversight of quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards. This includes directing the coordination and integration of tenant fit out projects, developing strategies to enhance efficiency and collaboration during design, construction, and commissioning phases. The role leads strategic site walks to ensure schedule adherence, coordination, and quality throughout the project lifecycle, and oversees the startup and commissioning phases of major data center projects, ensuring all systems are operational and meet design specifications. The Director directs the evaluation of risk profiles associated with timely project delivery across a portfolio of projects, addresses gaps in risk identification and mitigation, and communicates potential impacts to executive leadership. Furthermore, the Director develops and ensures the execution of comprehensive mitigation strategies for major construction project risks to ensure overall project success. This role directs the role of primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers, ensuring clear and effective communication and integrative solutions across the organization. The Director develops and maintains strategic relationships to support internal and external stakeholders at a senior level, driving organizational strategy and business objectives. This position oversees the selection, negotiation, and management of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring contract compliance and performance, and managing high-impact contract resolutions. The Director directs collaboration with design teams to ensure that construction activities align with the approved design plans and specifications, integrating solutions across the organization. The role provides high-level colocation provider evaluation input for continuous improvement, driving organizational strategy and business objectives. Finally, the Director oversees the installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to quality standards and managing high-impact installation resolutions.

Requirements

Construction Project Management
Project Planning and Execution
Project Schedules
Project Budgets
Leadership to Project Managers
Documentation Management (design review, commissioning, problem-solving)
Quality Control Processes
Tenant Fit Out Projects
Site Walks
Startup and Commissioning Phases
Risk Evaluation and Mitigation
Stakeholder and Vendor Management
Contract Negotiation and Management
Design Coordination
Colocation Provider Evaluation
Installation of Power, Cooling, Networking, and Structured Cabling Systems
Managing complex projects or initiatives
Delegating work
Setting priorities
Adjusting resources or project timelines
Leading cross-functional collaborative efforts
Building and maintaining partnerships
Analyzing complex data and/or information
Identifying root causes
Pursuing strategic learning opportunities
Creating learning opportunities for team members
Identifying skill gap trends
Developing and implementing ideas for process improvement
Gaining buy-in for ideas
Reviewing improvement initiatives
Driving performance through feedback and coaching
Applying talent development procedures
Aligning individual development goals with organizational strategic initiatives
Collaborating with HR on talent strategy

Responsibilities

Oversees the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring successful delivery of projects within the established timeline, budget, and quality parameters.
Develops, maintains, and oversees project schedules, ensuring effective coordination with colocation providers for on-time milestone achievement.
Leads the creation, management, and optimization of project budgets, ensuring strategic resource allocation and cost-efficiency throughout the project.
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, ensuring organizational standards are upheld, documents are managed and delivered effectively, and all materials are suitable for their intended purpose.
Directs the oversight of quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards.
Directs the coordination and integration of tenant fit out projects, developing strategies to enhance efficiency and collaboration during design, construction, and commissioning phases.
Leads strategic site walks to ensure schedule adherence, coordination, and quality throughout the project lifecycle.
Oversees the startup and commissioning phases of major data center projects, ensuring all systems are operational and meet design specifications.
Directs the evaluation of risk profiles associated with timely project delivery across a portfolio of projects.
Addresses gaps in risk identification and mitigation, and communicates potential impacts to executive leadership.
Develops and ensures the execution of comprehensive mitigation strategies for major construction project risks to ensure overall project success.
Directs the role of primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers, ensuring clear and effective communication and integrative solutions across the organization.
Develops and maintains strategic relationships to support internal and external stakeholders at a senior level, driving organizational strategy and business objectives.
Oversees the selection, negotiation, and management of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring contract compliance and performance, and managing high-impact contract resolutions.
Directs collaboration with design teams to ensure that construction activities align with the approved design plans and specifications, integrating solutions across the organization.
Provides high-level colocation provider evaluation input for continuous improvement, driving organizational strategy and business objectives.
Oversees the installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to quality standards and managing high-impact installation resolutions.
Oversees and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable to ensure strategic objectives are met.
Serves as a role model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuring alignment with business needs.
Coaches others on adjusting resources or project timelines in anticipation of business changes.
Role models leading cross-functional collaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.
Empowers team to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute to organizational success.
Drives transparency and inclusivity by modeling actively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.
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 identify solutions to ambiguous issues, and provides direction on identifying root causes to prevent recurrence of issues.
Pursues strategic learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level.
Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise in new areas, coaching them to build innovative skills.
Identifies skill gap trends across the organization, and upholds a culture that places significant emphasis on sharing knowledge and pursuing learning opportunities that advance the organization.
Evaluates efficiency of learning strategies and recommends adjustments as needed.
Empowers team to own the development and implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the department.
Coaches teams to gain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods for continued improvement.
Prioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvement initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return on investments.
Serves as a role model for driving performance across teams through tailored feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization.
Ensures that individual development goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives.
Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion processes.