Lead Principal, Strategic Data Center Site Selection

About the role

The Lead Principal, Data Center & Power Sourcing role is a senior individual contributor position within Oracle's infrastructure organization. This role supports the EVP of Infrastructure and drives strategic, critical, and high-impact infrastructure programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic data center and power sourcing initiatives that directly support the priorities of the EVP of Infrastructure.
• Drive high-priority programs requiring quick turnarounds, strong executive communication, and clear decision-making under ambiguity.
• Develop and present executive-ready materials, including investment write-ups, sourcing recommendations, market assessments, risk summaries, and decision memos.
• Evaluate global and regional data center and power opportunities, including site availability, market dynamics, utility readiness, commercial terms, delivery risk, cost, schedule, and scalability.
• Partner with capacity planning, engineering, construction, networking, finance, legal, procurement, security, compliance, and operations teams to align sourcing strategy with business demand.
• Lead cross-functional workstreams to evaluate, negotiate, and recommend data center, power, lease, build-to-suit, wholesale, retail, and hybrid infrastructure solutions.
• Conduct market research on targeted metros, countries, regions, data center providers, power markets, utility constraints, and emerging infrastructure opportunities.
• Support commercial negotiations with data center operators, landowners, utilities, developers, and other external stakeholders.
• Help structure and negotiate complex agreements, including leases, service orders, operating agreements, amendments, renewals, power-related agreements, and related commercial documents.
• Drive accountability across internal and external partners to ensure delivery against safety, quality, cost, schedule, capacity, operational, and business requirements.
• Build and maintain accurate systems of record, executive reporting, program dashboards, and materials that improve leadership visibility into sourcing priorities and risks.
• Identify risks, tradeoffs, dependencies, and decision points early, and proactively escalate with clear recommendations.
• Operate as a trusted strategic partner to the Chief of Staff, Head of Business Operations, and senior Infrastructure leadership on critical initiatives.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading complex data center, infrastructure, energy, power, site selection, real estate, procurement, development, or commercial sourcing initiatives.
• Strong understanding of data center markets, operators, site selection, lease structures, infrastructure delivery, and mission-critical environments.
• Experience with complex negotiations, contract formation, commercial terms, and cross-functional deal execution.
• Familiarity with power sourcing, utility engagement, grid constraints, sustainable infrastructure practices, and power-related commercial considerations.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, concise, decision-ready narratives.
• Prioritized ability to support senior executives on strategic, high-visibility, and time-sensitive priorities.
• Strong analytical skills, including market analysis, financial modeling, TCO analysis, scenario planning, and risk assessment.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across technical, commercial, legal, finance, and executive audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and rapidly changing environment.
• Strong ownership mindset and willingness to do what it takes to drive critical workstreams to completion.
• Able to manage multiple priorities, deliver high-quality work quickly, and maintain accuracy under pressure.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Advanced Excel and presentation skills; ability to build crisp executive-level materials and data-backed recommendations.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.