Senior Data Centre Delivery Lead

Datacom; New Zealand; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning and development opportunities

Career progression

Job summary

Datacom is seeking a Senior Project Manager for Data Centre initiatives in New Zealand. You will lead large, complex data centre and infrastructure projects from initiation through closure, shaping delivery approaches, coordinating resources and ensuring quality, scope, budget and timing.

You will collaborate with senior stakeholders, technical specialists and vendors, maintain strong governance, and oversee handover to operations while driving profitable outcomes and customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large or complex technical infrastructure projects.
• Broad understanding of infrastructure technologies.
• Strong PM capabilities across scope, time, cost, quality, communications, risk, procurement and integration.
• Proven customer and senior stakeholder management experience, including third-party vendors.
• Strong financial literacy, including cost estimation, forecasting, budget tracking and reporting.
• Effective leadership, negotiation, influencing, problem-solving and dispute resolution skills.
• Relevant bachelor’s degree in Business, IT, Science, Engineering, Economics or related discipline.
• Project Management, PRINCE2, PMI or Agile certification is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, complex data centre and infrastructure projects through the full project lifecycle.
• Define delivery approaches, plans, schedules, resources and governance to support successful outcomes.
• Manage scope, budget, quality, risks, issues, dependencies and change across concurrent workstreams.
• Build and guide collaborative project teams working in complex, multi-platform technical environments.
• Coordinate design, documentation, development, testing and implementation activities.
• Maintain clear reporting and strong relationships with customers, senior stakeholders and delivery partners.
• Manage project financials, including forecasting, budget tracking, variance analysis and benefits realisation.
• Develop and manage vendor agreements and third-party relationships that support delivery.
• Plan and oversee the handover of completed projects into operational support.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Budget forecasting

Vendor management

Leadership

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree (Business/IT/Science/Engineering/Economics)

Job description

Datacom is seeking a Senior Project Manager for Data Centre initiatives in New Zealand. You will lead large, complex data centre and infrastructure projects from initiation through closure, shaping delivery approaches, coordinating resources and ensuring quality, scope, budget and timing.

You will collaborate with senior stakeholders, technical specialists and vendors, maintain strong governance, and oversee handover to operations while driving profitable outcomes and customer satisfaction.