Global Head of Data Center Training & Readiness

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking a Senior Director, Data Center Training, to own the global training strategy, operating model, and execution framework for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center teams. You will lead a distributed team to build scalable curricula, qualify staff, and ensure safety, reliability, and audit readiness across sites.

The ideal candidate will have 15+ years in technical training and 7+ years of people leadership, with experience in hyperscale data centers or

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in technical training, data center operations, mission-critical facilities, reliability, engineering, construction operations, or workforce development.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including leading managers, senior program leaders, or distributed technical training teams.
• Experience building enterprise training programs for hyperscale data centers, utilities, industrial operations, critical facilities, manufacturing, military, or other high-reliability environments.
• Strong understanding of data center electrical, mechanical, controls, safety, maintenance, and emergency response workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to build operating models, governance mechanisms, dashboards, training standards, and executive-ready reporting.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations, education, organizational development, facilities management, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise training strategy for OCI data center operations, facilities, deployment, reliability, and site support functions.
• Build and govern role-based training paths for technicians, engineers, managers, site leaders, deployment teams, and support functions.
• Lead a distributed training organization through managers and senior program leaders, including staffing, coaching, performance management, and capability planning.
• Establish qualification standards for technical operations, MOP/SOP/EOP execution, incident response, switching, maintenance, safety, and operational readiness.
• Partner with Data Center Operations, Engineering, Reliability, Construction, Commissioning, Site Deployment, Safety, Security, and HR to align training with operating risks and business priorities.
• Develop scalable curricula, labs, simulations, field qualification records, train-the-trainer models, and recurring proficiency checks.
• Ensure training content reflects current procedures, equipment configurations, lessons learned, audit findings, safety expectations, and operational standards.
• Create training governance cadences, dashboards, KPIs, completion tracking, and executive reporting for workforce readiness.
• Drive training readiness for new site launches, expansions, critical remediation programs, and major operational changes.
• Identify capability gaps across regions and partner with functional leaders to prioritize corrective training, coaching, and standardization.
• Oversee vendor and third-party training quality where external partners support technical instruction, certification, or workforce onboarding.
• Promote a culture of operational discipline, continuous learning, safety, and accountability across the data center organization.

Skills

Senior leadership presence

Training architecture

Program governance

Operational judgment

Team development

Change leadership

Performance management

Readiness visibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations, education, organizational development, facilities management, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Learning management systems

Qualification tracking

Training dashboards

Workforce analytics

Job description

Oracle Corporation is seeking a Senior Director, Data Center Training, to own the global training strategy, operating model, and execution framework for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center teams. You will lead a distributed team to build scalable curricula, qualify staff, and ensure safety, reliability, and audit readiness across sites.

The ideal candidate will have 15+ years in technical training and 7+ years of people leadership, with experience in hyperscale data centers or