Senior Manager Data Hall Design

Job Description

Are you interested in leading an extraordinary team to develop, implement, and support innovative Oracle technology? If so, this might be an extraordinary fit!

Develops teams supporting and/or implementing multi-functional and/or multi-location projects and/or systems. Defines, documents, and manages scope, expectations, implementation approach, results and acceptance testing criteria. Develops and leads an effective risk mitigation strategy for the project(s).

Assists in the development of short-, medium-, and long-term plans to achieve strategic objectives. Regularly interacts across functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure unit objectives are met. Ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations. Successful track record as a manager. Detailed knowledge of technical and business concepts of several related applications areas. BA/BS degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Be a part of our organization supporting hyperscale distributed infrastructure for the cloud. Oracle’s Data Center team is rapidly expanding with new regions and sites across the globe each month.

We’re looking for an experienced leader, with strong people management experience, business acumen and a well-rounded IT technical abilities (at scale) to lead the teams responsible for building and supporting our cloud data centers in the United States. The successful candidate will have all 3 of these attributes in equal measure and be hard-working at a high level.

• Providing leadership, direction, and operational excellence for Data Center designs.
• Working at a global level with peers to achieve consistency and avoid design variability at all costs.
• Establishing and development of teams to execute to requirements.
• Working with distributed teams and contributing to the success of his/her team and other related teams.
• Coaching and mentoring managers and individual contributors across the organization.
• Growing the team by recruiting and hiring top talent in diverse marketplaces.
• Delivering expansion projects on-time with high quality.

Typical functions for day to day in the role are:

• Manage the day-to-day operations of all Data Center Designers.
• Responsible for ensuring timely delivery of services/tasks to meet project milestones.
• Working with project managers to guide their actions and provide ‘on-the-ground’ advice / support.
• Ensuring the quality benchmark is upheld for new sites / regions / deployments and being the gate keeper of this.
• Driving the delivery of improvements and providing detailed, concrete feedback in project reviews / lesson learned activities.
• Interacting across functional areas and teams (e.g., Engineering, Build, Site Selection, Business Operations etc.).
• Reacting to and managing any incidents that occur, driving resolution and After-Action analysis.
• Development of whitespace design standards.
• Drive appropriate recruitment in your area at a fast pace, ensuring the employment of high-quality team members with a passion for excellence.
• Driving a culture of continual improvement and learning throughout everything you do.
• Manage and create design of datacenter white space which includes: rack layout, hot/cold containment, network infrastructure, branch circuit distribution, power requirements, cable pathway, and projected build phases.
• Collaborate with colo providers and internal stakeholders to deliver project design criteria and develop Basis of Design
• Coordinate with key internal teams to establish requirements and work with colo providers to ensure requirement are met.
• Participate in development of OCI data center facilities requirements documentation.
• Research new designs, materials, and construction methods for data center electrical and mechanical equipment and related components.
• Create, develop, and maintain datacenter infrastructure site documentation, including floor plans, rack elevations, and cable matrices.
• Review and evaluate RFI, RFP, and RFQ submittals.
• Creating global data center infrastructure standards.
• Travel to new and existing datacenters for engineering analyses.
• Meet critical deadlines for project schedules.
• Participate in project coordination meetings, and clearly communicate any necessary or recommended updates to project scheduling.