Data Center Infrastructure Programs Lead

Jobtailor; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

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

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.