Director, Networking TPM — Europe Delivery Leader

Nscale; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Director of Technical Program Management – Networking to build and lead the TPM team delivering network infrastructure across Europe. This hands-on leadership role oversees cluster, data centre, and WAN networks across European sites, partnering with Network Engineering, Data Centre Ops, Supply Chain, and external carriers.

The role requires 12+ years in technical programme management with 5+ years leading TPM/engineering teams and travel across Europe.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in technical programme management, network engineering, or infrastructure delivery.
• 5+ years leading TPM or engineering teams.
• Experience delivering large-scale network infrastructure at hyperscale or major vendor.
• Strong grounding in cluster and data centre networking, WAN, routing (BGP, EVPN/VXLAN, Ethernet, InfiniBand).
• Experience multi-site, multi-country builds with complex dependencies.
• Ability to build scalable programme management frameworks.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management; able to influence.
• Willingness to travel across Europe.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and mentor a team of Technical Program Managers covering cluster networking, data centre networking, and WAN delivery across Europe.
• Own the end-to-end network delivery plan for new GPU cluster builds and expansions, from hardware arrival through installation, validation, and customer acceptance.
• Set the operating model for network programme delivery: planning standards, milestone gates, risk and dependency management, and reporting.
• Partner with Network Engineering on design readiness, BOMs, and build sequencing for Ethernet and InfiniBand fabrics, front-end networks, and WAN interconnects.
• Drive alignment across Deployment, Data Centre Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, SRE, and Commercial teams so network delivery never blocks customer handover.
• Manage strategic relationships with carriers, IXPs, colocation providers, and network hardware vendors.
• Establish metrics for delivery speed, quality, and predictability, and use them to drive continuous improvement.
• Communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly to executive leadership and customers.
• Hire top TPM talent in a highly competitive market and grow a high-performing, accountable team culture.

Skills

Technical programme management

Network engineering

Infrastructure delivery

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field

Tools

Networking design tools

Job description

Nscale is seeking a Director of Technical Program Management – Networking to build and lead the TPM team delivering network infrastructure across Europe. This hands-on leadership role oversees cluster, data centre, and WAN networks across European sites, partnering with Network Engineering, Data Centre Ops, Supply Chain, and external carriers.

The role requires 12+ years in technical programme management with 5+ years leading TPM/engineering teams and travel across Europe.