Senior Manager, Construction Delivery Tools & Technology, NA

Vantage Data Centers•Denver, CO

About The Position

Vantage is seeking an experienced, strategic, hands-on leader to own how technology and data enable its North American construction delivery organization. The role begins with understanding the business: partnering with field, project and functional teams to learn how work gets done, identify important problems, and develop technology and data solutions around users’ needs. The position owns the path from problem definition through requirements, technology strategy, solution evaluation and implementation, pilots, data connections, adoption and value measurement. This is a senior-level individual contributor role on a lean team. The person will set strategy while personally driving work forward, owning the Delivery organization’s technology ecosystem and roadmap, leading cross-functional initiatives and pilots, and improving how information is connected and used. The role also identifies opportunities involving technology, automation and AI, and makes recommendations to scale, modify or stop solutions based on demonstrated business value. Vantage describes its culture as having “No Ego and No Arrogance,” emphasizing mutual support, respect, enjoyment at work and efficient work. The company offers an above-market total compensation package and a comprehensive suite of health and welfare, retirement, and paid leave benefits, as well as benefits, recognition, training and development opportunities. Vantage is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Requirements

At least 8 years of experience in business technology, digital transformation, technology strategy, business systems, operational excellence or similar roles.
Demonstrated experience owning complex technology initiatives from business need through implementation and adoption.
Strong user-focused mindset and experience translating business problems into practical technology solutions.
Experience evaluating technology portfolios and making strategic recommendations about what to build, buy, integrate, improve or retire.
Experience leading technology pilots with clearly defined success criteria and measurable outcomes.
Strong analytical skills and comfort working directly with data, systems, integrations and data flows.
Proven ability to drive work across functions and influence without direct authority.
Strong executive communication skills and ability to turn complexity into clear recommendations and decisions.
Experience succeeding as a hands-on senior individual contributor in a lean, fast-moving environment.
Experience with enterprise platforms, analytics, automation or emerging AI technologies.

Nice To Haves

Background in construction, engineering, infrastructure, data centers or another complex operating environment is preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

Develop a deep understanding of Delivery teams, workflows, pain points and unmet needs.
Translate real-world use cases into clear business, technology and data requirements, and design solutions around users’ work.
Stay close to users after implementation to confirm solutions address the intended problems.
Develop and drive a holistic technology strategy and roadmap for the Delivery organization.
Manage, assess and evolve the Delivery technology ecosystem, including evaluating tools, connections, gaps and unnecessary complexity.
Drive decisions on where to simplify, integrate, enhance, replace, retire or introduce technology capabilities.
Identify opportunities to improve delivery through technology, automation and AI.
Own priority initiatives from problem definition through implementation, adoption and measurement.
Bring business teams, enterprise technology partners and vendors together to advance initiatives.
Develop business cases, requirements, implementation approaches and measures of success.
Drive decisions, resolve ambiguity and maintain momentum across complex cross-functional work.
Evaluate and pilot emerging technologies, defining use cases, scope, users, success criteria and measures before launch.
Gather user feedback and evaluate pilot results; recommend whether to scale, modify or stop based on demonstrated business value.
Understand how information is created, captured, connected and used across Delivery.
Partner across the enterprise to improve data consistency, accessibility and usability.
Create clarity across platforms, integrations, reporting and data sources, considering people, process, data and technology holistically.