Director, Data Center Capacity & Critical Infra Execution

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 146,000 - 306,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off and vacation accrual

11 paid holidays

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Oracle is looking for a Director to lead a high-impact execution team focused on unblocking critical power and cooling constraints affecting AI data-center capacity delivery. The role owns the operating model, priorities, and cross-functional execution from identification to resolution.

The Director will lead a small team of senior data-center engineers and collaborate with facilities, construction, commissioning, design engineering, network, compute, procurement, and external vendors to recover

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in mission-critical facilities, data-center engineering, construction, commissioning, or operations.
• Deep understanding of critical power and cooling systems, including utility infrastructure, generators, switchgear, UPS, PDUs, busway, chillers, cooling towers, pumps, CRAHs/CRACs, and controls.
• Demonstrated experience delivering or recovering complex data-center infrastructure programs.
• Strong understanding of commissioning, integrated systems testing, turnover, and live-site change management.
• Proven people leadership and experience leading cross-functional programs in high-pressure environments.
• Ability to communicate technical risks and recommendations clearly to executive audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent practical experience; PE, PMP, or mission-critical certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead the critical-infrastructure execution team and set priorities based on capacity, schedule, cost, operational risk, and customer impact.
• Drive resolution of complex power and cooling blockers across live and new-build data centers.
• Establish a rigorous operating cadence for issue intake, root-cause analysis, decision-making, escalation, and closure.
• Partner with facilities, construction, commissioning, design engineering, network, compute, procurement, and external vendors to recover schedules and deliver capacity.
• Review major site risks, including electrical distribution, generator and UPS capacity, mechanical cooling capacity, controls, commissioning readiness, and turnover dependencies.
• Develop clear executive updates that state the issue, business impact, decision required, owner, and recovery plan.
• Build repeatable playbooks, lessons learned, and metrics to prevent repeat issues across the data-center fleet.
• Manage and develop IC4 engineers; create a culture of technical rigor, ownership, urgency, and safe execution.
• Influence senior stakeholders without direct authority and resolve competing priorities across teams.

Skills

Data-center leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Power & cooling systems

Project management

Executive communication

Facilities coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Job description

Oracle is looking for a Director to lead a high-impact execution team focused on unblocking critical power and cooling constraints affecting AI data-center capacity delivery. The role owns the operating model, priorities, and cross-functional execution from identification to resolution.

The Director will lead a small team of senior data-center engineers and collaborate with facilities, construction, commissioning, design engineering, network, compute, procurement, and external vendors to recover