Sr. Principal Technical Program Manager, End-to-End Data Center Delivery

Oracle • VA, VA

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About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a highly technical Senior Principal Technical Program Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of hyperscale data center capacity, from site strategy through customer-ready compute and GPU capacity, operational handover, and production go-live. This IC5 individual-contributor role owns the integrated delivery path across greenfield, expansion, and colocation programs, operating with broad autonomy to resolve high-impact technical and commercial tradeoffs and align senior leaders and external partners around capacity commitments. The work requires deep knowledge of mission-critical electrical systems, white-space infrastructure, structured cabling, fiber, network dependencies, commissioning, and operational readiness.

The role provides strategic oversight of data center construction by colocation providers, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to quality standards. It oversees design-review, commissioning, and problem-solving documentation; quality-control processes; strategic site walks; and startup and commissioning of major projects. The role identifies gaps in risk identification and mitigation, leads company interfaces with colocation providers, and oversees vendor and contractor selection, contract negotiation and management, and installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems.

The position leads multiple complex hyperscale capacity-delivery programs from site selection and due diligence through construction, commissioning, infrastructure deployment, and customer go-live. It owns integrated schedules, capacity milestones, budgets, risks, issues, change control, recovery planning, and executive reporting. It coordinates cross-functional teams and external partners, guides technical decisions and delivery of critical electrical and low-voltage infrastructure, governs design and constructability reviews, and manages readiness, testing, quality validation, acceptance, and operational handover. It also establishes repeatable delivery mechanisms, metrics, standards, and lessons learned across the regional data center portfolio.

Requirements

• 8 or more years of experience in technical program management, project delivery, engineering, construction, infrastructure deployment, or operations within mission-critical environments.
• 5 or more years of direct experience delivering hyperscale, cloud, colocation, or large-scale enterprise data center programs.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex programs spanning early planning, design, construction, commissioning, technical fit-out, infrastructure deployment, and operational handover.
• Deep working knowledge of critical electrical infrastructure, including utility interfaces, substations or switchgear, generators, UPS systems, electrical distribution, busway, RPPs, and data-hall power distribution.
• Strong technical understanding of low-voltage and network infrastructure, including structured cabling, fiber systems, containment, pathways, network deployment dependencies, and security-system interfaces.
• Experience managing integrated schedules, critical paths, budgets, scope changes, vendor performance, commercial risk, and executive-level communications.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders, lead through ambiguity, make sound technical tradeoffs, and resolve issues across organizational boundaries.
• Ability to travel up to 50% within the Eastern U.S., particularly across Northern Virginia/IAD.
• Minimum construction project management qualification: 15 years of experience; or a bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field and 11 years of experience; or a master's degree in those fields and 9 years of experience; or a doctorate in those fields and 7 years of experience.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil, or Construction Engineering; Construction Management; or a related technical discipline.
• Experience delivering high-density AI, GPU, HPC, or large-scale cloud capacity.
• Experience with both greenfield and leased/colocation data center delivery models.
• Expertise in commissioning, integrated systems testing, operational readiness, and customer capacity turn-up.
• Experience leading regional portfolios or programs with multiple concurrent data center delivery workstreams.
• Proficiency with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, SharePoint, or comparable delivery-management tools.
• PMP, PgMP, CDCP, CDCS, or related mission-critical infrastructure certification.
• Preferred construction project management qualification: 16 years of experience; or a bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field and 12 years of experience; or a master's degree in those fields and 10 years of experience; or a doctorate in those fields and 8 years of experience.
• 2 years of experience in a leadership role, with or without direct reports.
• 4 years of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple complex, high-value hyperscale data center capacity-delivery programs from site selection and due diligence through construction, commissioning, infrastructure deployment, and customer go-live.
• Own the integrated master schedule, capacity milestones, budget, risk and issue management, change control, recovery planning, and executive reporting.
• Define and drive cross-functional delivery strategy across Real Estate, Capacity Planning, Energy and Utilities, Design Engineering, Procurement, Construction, Network, Security, Infrastructure Deployment, Finance, and Data Center Operations.
• Lead technical due diligence for prospective sites and colocation facilities, assessing utility availability, power-delivery timelines, fiber connectivity, permitting, constructability, physical constraints, and readiness for forecasted compute and GPU demand.
• Drive technical decisions and execution across critical electrical and low-voltage scope, including utility interconnects, medium- and low-voltage distribution, switchgear, generators, UPS, busway, RPPs, containment, structured cabling, fiber pathways, network rooms, and white-space fit-out.
• Establish and govern technical design reviews, constructability reviews, submittals, acceptance criteria, and decision forums; identify and resolve cross-functional dependencies before they affect committed capacity dates.
• Direct readiness of critical equipment, construction progress, commissioning, integrated systems testing, quality validation, punch-list closure, and final acceptance.
• Ensure network, fiber, security, low-voltage, and server-deployment workstreams are sequenced and ready to safely energize, validate, and make capacity available to customers.
• Manage strategic relationships and delivery interfaces with general contractors, design firms, equipment vendors, colocation providers, utilities, carriers, and other external partners.
• Lead escalation and resolution of complex technical, schedule, commercial, and operational risks spanning multiple organizations or programs.
• Drive operational handover to Data Center Operations, including asset and configuration data, maintenance information, test results, warranties, training, documentation, residual-risk management, and ownership transition.
• Establish repeatable delivery mechanisms, metrics, technical standards, and lessons learned that improve predictability, speed, cost, and quality across the regional data center portfolio.
• Communicate capacity commitments, schedule health, cost exposure, key decisions, risks, and recovery actions to technical teams and executive stakeholders.
• Provide strategic oversight of colocation-provider data center construction to ensure projects meet schedule, budget, and quality standards.
• Oversee design-review, commissioning, and problem-solving documentation and quality-control processes.
• Conduct strategic site walks and provide executive oversight and leadership for startup and commissioning phases.
• Identify critical gaps in risk identification and mitigation and drive organization-wide initiatives to address them.
• Serve as the primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers.
• Oversee selection, negotiation, and management of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring compliance, performance, and alignment with approved design plans and specifications.
• Oversee installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits supporting employees with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options.
• Volunteer programs that encourage employees to give back to their communities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed