Technical Program Manager, Design and Co-location

Google; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Google is seeking a Technical Program Manager to lead multi-disciplinary engineering projects across its data center infrastructure. You will plan requirements with internal customers and shepherd projects through the full lifecycle, from schedules and risks to executive-level communications.

You will oversee multiple engineering programs, ensuring the data center architecture supports Google's product portfolio.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in data center infrastructure management or planning.
• 5 years of leadership experience (with/without direct reports).
• Experience with electrical or mechanical engineering in a data center environment.
• Experience with rack, space, and power capacity management and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Review electrical and mechanical designs of network space in Google owned facilities.
• Mentor team members globally.
• Rack space and power capacity management and reporting.
• Design and build standards of Google owned spaces.
• Manage team resource planning.

Skills

Data center management

Leadership

Electrical/Mechanical engineering

Rack/Power capacity management

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Job description

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, or Math, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in data center infrastructure management or planning.
• 5 years of experience in leadership roles with/without direct reports.
  
• Experience with electrical or mechanical engineering in a data center environment.
• Experience with rack, space, and power capacity management and reporting.

Preferred qualifications:

• 12 years of experience in technical program management and data center infrastructure.
• Experience working on gathering customer or product requirements for data center builds.
• Experience with global team management.
• Strong organizational, multitasking and prioritization abilities with excellent attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and financial skills, and a data-driven investigative approach to solving complex issues.

About the job

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage various Engineering-specific programs and teams. Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Review of electrical and mechanical designs of network space in Google owned facilities.
• Mentor team members globally.
• Rack space and power capacity management and reporting.
• Design and build standards of Google owned spaces.
• Manage team resource planning.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.