Data Center Infrastructure Engineering Program Manager – Network, Whitespace

Jobtailor

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 230,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Engineering Program Manager to lead mission-critical data center projects in the San Francisco area. You will translate goals into executable workstream charters and manage multi-discipline execution plans across network, controls, and facilities teams.

Responsibilities include coordinating with third-party design teams, maintaining schedules and risk logs, and delivering deployment readiness.

Qualifications

10+ years of engineering or technical program management experience.
Experience delivering mission-critical infrastructure projects.
Ability to coordinate cross-functional programs with multiple stakeholders.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience building and maintaining schedules, risk registers, and action plans.
Bachelor's degrees in Engineering, CS, Construction Management, Operations or Business.

Responsibilities

Translate infrastructure goals into clear workstream charters, scopes, milestones, owners, decision points, and success metrics.
Build and maintain integrated execution plans for programs covering network, controls, data hall design, and deployment readiness.
Coordinate with network, controls, structural, electrical, mechanical, hardware integration, construction, commissioning, and operations teams.
Define design milestones from concept through detailed design with basis-of-design, requirements tracking, reviews, and release readiness.
Maintain dependency map, issue log, risk register, action tracker, and decision log for workstreams.
Track building-level interfaces and handoffs affecting programs; drive readiness and first-use criteria.

Skills

Engineering Program Management

Data Center Deployment

Integrated Schedule Management

Cross-Functional Coordination

Infrastructure Technical Fluency

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management

Bachelor's Degree in Operations

Bachelor's Degree in Business

Job description

• Translate assigned infrastructure goals into clear workstream charters, scopes, milestones, owners, decision points, success metrics, resourcing assumptions, and execution plans.
• Build and maintain integrated execution plans for assigned programs covering network, controls, data hall design, whitespace deployment, commissioning preparation, and deployment readiness.
• Support coordination across network, controls, structural, electrical, mechanical, hardware integration, construction, commissioning, and operations teams.
• Work with third-party design teams to define design milestones from concept through detailed design, including basis-of-design development, requirements tracking, design reviews, technical comment resolution, change management, and release readiness.
• Maintain the dependency map, issue log, risk register, action tracker, and decision log for assigned network and data hall workstreams.
• Coordinate design and review milestones for network rooms, non-production network services, OT / IT interface points, rack deployment assumptions, telemetry interfaces, controls dependencies, and data hall deployment packages.
• Track building-level network and support-space interfaces such as MPOE, MMR, Network Core, WAN, support rooms, and associated handoff points where they affect assigned programs.
• Support the network and controls DRIs by organizing reviews, resolving cross-discipline gaps, surfacing decisions, and keeping partner deliverables aligned to schedule.
• Manage partner and vendor deliverables such as submittals, interface packages, installation assumptions, turn-up plans, readiness evidence, field issue logs, and corrective action tracking.
• Drive readiness tracking for assigned 1P, 3P, colo, and selected CSP programs, including bring-up sequencing, installation readiness, access dependencies, maintenance windows, and first-use criteria.
• Prepare clear status updates, dashboards, and executive-ready summaries for the Industrial Compute lead and project stakeholders.
• Capture lessons learned from deployment and handoff activities and feed them back into playbooks, standards, and interface definitions.

Requirements

Extensive experience in engineering program management, technical program management, mission-critical infrastructure delivery, data centre deployment, or comparable complex execution environments, typically gained through 10+ years of relevant work or equivalent depth of experience.
Proven ability to operate within ambiguous, cross-functional engineering programs with shifting requirements, urgent timelines, and high-stakes operational risk, driving from concept through design, validation, procurement, construction, commissioning, deployment and operations.
Proven experience coordinating cross-functional programs that include network, controls, mechanical, electrical, structural, construction, commissioning or operations participants.
Strong technical fluency in at least several of the following areas: data hall deployment, non-production network, production network interfaces, controls coordination, telemetry, rack deployment, mission-critical support spaces, and infrastructure handoff.
Experience building and maintaining integrated schedules, dependency maps, risk registers, decision logs, readiness trackers, and partner action plans.
Experience coordinating external partners, vendors, design firms, delivery teams, or operators in a multi-party infrastructure environment.
Ability to understand complex technical tradeoffs, ask strong questions, identify hidden dependencies, and help teams move toward clear decisions without needing to be the sole technical owner.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce crisp status reporting and drive action across matrixed teams.
Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Construction Management, Operations, Business, or a related technical or quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in engineering program management and technical program management within mission-critical infrastructure delivery, particularly in data centre deployment. Proficient in coordinating cross-functional teams and managing complex execution environments with a focus on integrated schedules, risk management, and effective communication.

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