Senior Manager, Data Center Facilities Engineering

Responsibilities

• Oversee ongoing critical infrastructure maintenance and repair for all service lines, ensuring service uptime meets expected standards, service level agreements (SLAs) and faults are addressed promptly.
• Direct operating activities using advanced engineering expertise, overseeing advanced diagnostics and repairs.
• Implement strategies aligned with Oracle processes and industry standards to drive the resolution of routine and non-routine issues.
• Provide strategic recommendations for system-level enhancements to ensure the mitigation of potential problems.
• Drive evaluations of components or action plans suitability, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Oversee the management of data center incidents impacting critical infrastructure, ensuring proactive and timely resolution to maintain operational integrity.
• Manage collaborative efforts with design, construction, commissioning, facility engineering, and data center operations teams to integrate new engineering design systems into existing data center infrastructure.
• Oversee team engagement with operational optimization and efficiency improvement initiatives, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.
• Ensure evaluation and compliance with safe working practices, providing direction to uphold company safety standards.
• Oversee post-incident review processes by guiding cross-functional teams through root cause analyses, institutionalizing lessons learned, and driving the development and governance of Corrective and Preventive Action Plans (CAPAs) to mitigate systemic risks and enhance global infrastructure resilience.
• Partner with key stakeholders and drive collaborations across teams during emergency response, ensuring critical issues are promptly resolved and risk is mitigated.
• Oversee site selection and assessment activities across programs or regions, guiding teams in evaluating technical, environmental, and infrastructure conditions to inform long-term capacity planning.
• Review and validate technical documentation and reports for strategic tooling inputs and ensure consistency across deliverables.
• Lead cross-functional design and commissioning review efforts, synthesizing commissioning data to drive quality assurance and risk mitigation.
• Oversee and manage processes and engagements to ensure design adjustments align with performance, safety, and operational objectives.
• Direct the validation of on-site data center operations concerning engineering infrastructure, ensuring alignment with group goals.
• Act as a key resource for operations-related projects, leveraging subject matter expertise to inform strategic decisions.
• Partner with key stakeholders to remove blockers and provide recommendations, solutions, and resources to ensure that operational requirements and specifications are delivered on time.
• Ensure compliance with established standards and policies through the review of documentation and organizational participation in commissioning activities, design summits, and data center reviews.
• Establish processes and procedures around supporting operations.
• Develop and implement design and engineering initiatives, ensuring alignment with group goals and objectives.
• Offer strategic guidance and engineering oversight to ensure projects and initiatives meet company expectations.
• Lead the coordination of internal and external team members in delivering data centers for Oracle.
• Provide guidance to teams on the administration of contracts, including generating and reviewing contracts, change orders, cost forecasts, and other pertinent documents.
• Review policy documents to ensure alignment with company standards and best practices.
• Maintain and oversee best-in-class policies and procedures, ensuring effective reviews of policy and procedure documents are aligned with compliance and organizational standards.
• Oversee the proposal review process of maintenance plans, including benchmarking with others and cost analysis, and escalate/share findings with senior leaders for approval.
• Lead the development of training programs for newer team members, ensuring they align with team goals.
• Audit the drill program, as needed.
• Serve as a resource for complex, advanced systems, leveraging expertise to mentor and guide others both within and outside the team.
• Align workload to headcount.

Additional Responsibilities

• Hold Colocation Vendors accountable for meeting contractual requirements.
• Lead the acquisition of adequate resources, such as spare parts, generator fuel, water, and consumables.
• Direct vendor and contractor scheduling and site access, driving work to execution and completion per Oracle expectations and safe-working practices.

Core Responsibilities

• Manage multiple medium- to large-scale projects or initiatives across teams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable are monitored and met.
• Provide direction to teams on project work, setting priorities, and aligning with business needs.
• Guide teams on adjusting plans to accommodate resource or timeline changes.
• Drive cross-functional partnerships to align on expectations and shared objectives across multiple teams.
• Coach team members to develop strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and external partners to foster collaboration and long-term success.
• Promote inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected.
• Provide direction to multiple teams on addressing complex operational and/or technical issues as well as providing guidance on analyzing complex data and/or information to identify solutions.
• Review and provide insights into unresolved or critical issues, helping the team to identify potential solutions.
• Model engaging in continuous learning to deepen expertise and stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices into strategic planning.
• Leverage feedback to drive personal and team skill improvements.
• Identify skill gaps across teams, and empower team members to pursue learning and knowledge sharing opportunities that build their expertise in new areas and coach them to apply learnings to advance the organization.
• Drive team to collaborate on, develop, and implement ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within and across teams, providing oversight.
• Guide team to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encourage feedback for continued improvement.
• Drive performance across teams by providing feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
• Discuss development goals with team members, share opportunities to facilitate career development, and ensure individual goals are aligned with broader organizational goals.
• Develop and manage talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoring promotion eligibility, and/or orchestrating talent resources.

Pay

US: Hiring Range in USD from $126,200 to $264,100 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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