Principal Data Center Facilities Development Manager

Role overview

Principal Data Center Facilities Development Manager at Oracle

Risk and Problem Management: -Evaluates the risk profiles associated with timely project delivery for multiple projects. -Identifies gaps in risk identification and mitigation and develops tailored solutions to address these gaps. -Develops and implements mitigation strategies for major construction project risks to ensure project success.

Responsibilities

• Construction Project Management-Project Planning and Execution: -Leads the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. -Develops and maintains detailed project schedules, coordinating with colocation providers to ensure timely milestone delivery across multiple projects. -Creates and manages project budgets, optimizing resource allocation to ensure cost-effective project execution. -Creates, reviews, and maintains documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving papers, ensuring standards are upheld, documents are managed effectively, and materials are suitable for their intended purpose.
• Construction Project Management-Project Integration and Quality Assurance: -Implements and oversees quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards. -Collaborates actively in the coordination and integration of tenant fit out projects, ensuring alignment between different phases of design, construction, and commissioning. -Conducts detailed site walks to monitor schedule, coordination, and quality throughout the life of the project. -Leads the startup and commissioning phases of major data center projects, ensuring that all systems are operational and meet design specifications.
• Stakeholder and Vendor Management: -Serves as the primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers, facilitating clear and effective communication, and resolving routine issues independently. -Develops and maintains key relationships to effectively support internal and external stakeholders, identifying opportunities for process improvements. -Selects, negotiates, and manages contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring contract compliance and performance.
• Design Coordination and Improvement: -Collaborates with design teams to ensure that construction activities align with the approved design plans and specifications, addressing routine design issues independently. -Provides comprehensive colocation provider evaluation input for continuous improvement and identifies opportunities for process enhancements. -Oversees the installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to quality standards.
• Planning & Execution: -Manages and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately-sized project or initiative.
• Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.
• Collaboration & Partnership: -Collaborates across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.
• Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure proposed solutions meet their needs.
• Supports inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.
• Problem Solving: -Identifies and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices.
• Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment and suggests potential solutions.
• Reviews, contributes to, and documents problem solving strategies.
• Continuous Learning: -Pursues learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices.
• Proactively seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills.
• Coaches and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge sharing within and across teams.
• Continuous Improvement: -Develops ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key stakeholders.
• Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches and methods for continued improvement.
• Performance and Development: -Contributes to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews, assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.

Employment details

• Location: India

Additional role details

• Leads the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
• Creates, reviews, and maintains documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving papers.
• Implements and oversees quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards.
• Conducts detailed site walks and leads the startup and commissioning phases of major data center projects.
• Identifies gaps in risk identification and mitigation and develops tailored solutions to address these gaps.
• Serves as the primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers.
• Selects, negotiates, and manages 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.