Principal Data Center Site Planner

About the Role

Contributes to infrastructure planning to optimize Data Center capacity and support rack demand while monitoring for bottlenecks and recommending investment opportunities. Builds partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders for seamless coordination and updates across planning phases. Enhances scalability and efficiency by standardizing site design and capacity modeling, analyzing historical data for improvements. Translates evolving needs into scalable site plans aligned with global strategies, supports validation, and tracks implementation readiness. Integrates technical solutions across teams for effective execution, tracking risks and dependencies, and escalating issues to maintain progress.

Key Responsibilities

• Data Center Capacity and Infrastructure Planning: Contributes to infrastructure planning to optimize capacity utilization and support projected rack demand. Monitors for potential bottlenecks and provides input on investment opportunities to improve infrastructure scalability and operational efficiency.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Builds partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure seamless coordination across planning phases. Coordinates updates and status reporting across workstreams. Creates and implements governance processes and documentation.
• Scalability and Efficiency Optimization: Enhances scalability and operational efficiency by standardizing site design elements and capacity modeling practices; contributes to specifications on tool development. Analyzes historical data to recommend improvements in scalability and operational efficiency.
• Site Planning: Translates evolving business and technical needs into scalable site plans, ensuring alignment with global data center strategies. Supports plan validation and tracks implementation readiness across multiple locations.
• Solution Integration and Execution: Integrates technical solutions across functional teams to ensure effective and timely execution of site plans, holding to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) where applicable. Tracks risks and dependencies throughout deployment phases, escalating issues as needed to maintain alignment and progress.

Core Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

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.

Pay

US Hiring Range: USD $102,300 - $209,500 per year. May be eligible for bonus and equity. 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.

Benefits

• 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

Schedule

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

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