Job Description
Provides strategic oversight and leadership for the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring successful completion of projects on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards. Directs and mentors construction project teams, ensuring the alignment of all projects with the overall strategic vision of the organization. Strategizes and directs the creation, review, and maintenance of documentation, including design review, commissioning, and problem-solving papers. Provides executive oversight of quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards. Directs high-level site walks and leads the strategic startup and commissioning phases of major data center projects. Addresses gaps in risk identification and mitigation, and informs the board of associated potential impacts. Provides executive oversight as the primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers. Directs the strategic selection, negotiation, and management of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers, ensuring contract compliance and performance and construction activities align with the approved design plans and specifications. Directs the installation of power, cooling, networking, and structured cabling systems.
Responsibilities
KeyResponsibilities
Construction Project Management-Project Planning and Execution:
-Provides strategic oversight and leadership for
the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring successful
completion of projects on time, within budget, and to the highest quality
standards.
-Develops, maintains, and provides executive
oversight for comprehensive project schedules, ensuring strategic coordination
with colocation providers for the successful delivery of all project milestones.
-Leads and oversees the strategic creation,
management, and optimization of project budgets, ensuring efficient use of
resources and cost-effective delivery of projects across the organization.
-Directs and mentors construction project teams,
ensuring the alignment of all projects with the overall strategic vision of the
organization.
-Strategizes and directs the creation, review, and
maintenance of documentation, including design review, commissioning, and
problem-solving papers, ensuring enterprise-wide adherence to standards,
effective document management and delivery, and suitability of all materials
for their intended purpose.
Construction Project Management-Project Integration and Quality Assurance:
-Provides executive oversight of quality control
processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and
industry standards.
-Strategizes and manages the coordination and
integration of tenant fit out projects, optimizing processes and driving
improvements throughout design, construction, and commissioning phases.
-Directs high-level site walks to ensure strategic
schedule adherence, coordination, and quality throughout the project lifecycle.
-Leads the strategic startup and commissioning
phases of major data center projects, ensuring all systems are operational and
meet design specifications.
Risk and Problem Management:
-Provides executive oversight for the evaluation
of risk profiles associated with timely project delivery across numerous
projects.
-Addresses gaps in risk identification and
mitigation and informs the board of associated potential impacts.
-Develops and ensures the strategic implementation
of comprehensive mitigation strategies for major construction project risks to
ensure corporate project success.
Stakeholder and Vendor Management:
-Provides executive oversight as the primary point
of contact between the company and colocation providers, ensuring clear and
effective communication and executive alignment.
-Develops and maintains high-level strategic
relationships to support internal and external stakeholders, influencing
corporate strategy and long-term goals.
-Directs the strategic selection, negotiation, and
management of contracts with external vendors, contractors, and suppliers,
ensuring contract compliance and performance, and resolving the most critical
and complex contract issues.
Design Coordination and Improvement:
-Provides executive oversight of collaboration
with design teams to ensure that construction activities align with the
approved design plans and specifications, ensuring executive alignment.
-Provides high-level colocation provider
evaluation input for continuous improvement, influencing corporate strategy and
long-term goals.
-Directs the installation of power, cooling,
networking, and structured cabling systems, ensuring adherence to quality
standards and resolving the most critical and complex installation issues.
Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:
-Provides strategic oversight on the management
and execution of large-scale projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines,
deliverables, and budgets when applicable to ensure success. Sets strategies
for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and aligning projects
with business needs. Drives the strategic planning process across teams,
providing guidance on resources or timelines in anticipation of changes.
Collaboration & Partnership:
-Sets a strategic direction for collaborating with
cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic
objectives. Drives a culture of teamwork, empowering teams to build and
maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to
contribute to organizational success. Promotes a culture of transparency and
inclusivity where all voices are valued and respected.
Problem Solving:
-Develops and implements strategies for
specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts across the organization, serving
as an escalation point for highly complex operational and/or technical issues.
Oversees teams leveraging innovative techniques to address significant
ambiguous issues, identify root causes, and prevent recurrence, reviewing
solutions as needed.
Continuous Learning:
-Champions continuous learning to maintain
cutting-edge skills and influence organizational best practices. Inspires teams
to build and maintain expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring
emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards to help position the
organization as an industry leader. Contributes to the organization’s strategy
for learning and development, influencing leadership to foster learning
opportunities for the team.
Continuous Improvement:
-Drives a culture of continuous improvement that
sets a standard for efficient and effective processes, protocols, and workflows
across the organization. Oversees work to implement large-scale approaches and
methods for continued improvement, ensuring changes align with organizational
goals. Sets the strategic direction, prioritizes, and approves the roadmap of
improvement initiatives to maximize return on investments.
Performance and Development:
-Drives and ensures consistent application of
performance management strategies, systems, processes, and guidelines across
the organization. Creates an organizational culture of career development that
encourages proactively identifying and pursuing career development
opportunities, and guiding leaders to support their team's growth. Drives
consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes
performance expectations across the organization. Partners with HR and
executive leadership to envision and execute a talent management strategy,
balancing budget, and talent resources.
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $193,600 to $414,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.
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