Senior Infrastructure Project Manager (Data Centre)

Datacom; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave

Employee Assistance Programme (DataCe

Ongoing learning and career growth

Access to industry-leading learning平台

Recognition programmes

Job summary

Datacom is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to lead large-scale data centre and infrastructure initiatives in Auckland. You will guide delivery from initiation through closure, engaging senior stakeholders and vendors to ensure quality, scope and on-time delivery.

You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, manage budgets, and drive hands-on governance to ensure successful handover to operations, while maintaining clear reporting and strong partner relationships.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading large or complex technical infrastructure projects.
• Broad understanding of infrastructure technologies and their dependencies.
• Strong project management capability across scope, time, cost, quality, communications, risk, procurement and integration.
• Proven customer and senior stakeholder management experience, including working with third‑party vendors.
• Strong financial literacy, including cost estimation, forecasting, budget tracking and reporting.
• Effective leadership, negotiation, influencing, problem‑solving and dispute resolution skills.
• A relevant bachelor's degree in Business, IT, Science, Engineering, Economics or a 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 and variance analysis.
• Develop and manage vendor agreements and third‑party relationships that support delivery.
• Plan and oversee the handover of completed projects into operational support.

Skills

Large-scale projects

Infrastructure tech

Project management

Stakeholder management

Financial literacy

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/IT/Engineering

Job description

Datacom is seeking a seasoned Project Manager to lead large-scale data centre and infrastructure initiatives in Auckland. You will guide delivery from initiation through closure, engaging senior stakeholders and vendors to ensure quality, scope and on-time delivery.

You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, manage budgets, and drive hands-on governance to ensure successful handover to operations, while maintaining clear reporting and strong partner relationships.