Hybrid Data Center & HPC Infra Delivery Lead

GTN Technical Staffing; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

GTN Technical Staffing is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead a large-scale data center and HPC infrastructure program. This hybrid Dallas-based role oversees design, engineering, construction, power, cooling, procurement, commissioning, and platform readiness, coordinating across multiple teams and vendors for on-time turnover.

You will manage schedules, budgets, risks, and dependencies, ensuring alignment with milestones and operational requirements while collaborating closely with

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in program management, project management, data center delivery, infrastructure deployment, construction, engineering, or large-scale capital programs.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing complex, multi-year, multi-phase infrastructure or construction programs.
• Direct experience delivering data centers, HPC facilities, cloud infrastructure, colocation facilities, or mission-critical technical environments.
• Experience coordinating facility delivery with compute, storage, networking, or other technology infrastructure deployment.
• Strong experience managing integrated schedules across multiple projects, contractors, disciplines, and workstreams.
• Strong understanding of critical-path scheduling, dependency management, risk management, change control, forecasting, and program governance.
• Experience coordinating engineering, construction, procurement, commissioning, and operational readiness.
• Experience working with general contractors, engineering firms, equipment manufacturers, technology vendors, and commissioning providers.
• Strong financial awareness and experience managing capital budgets and forecasts.
• Proven ability to drive cross-functional issue resolution and communicate effectively with senior leadership.
• Ability to work in a hybrid environment with regular in-person collaboration in Dallas.

Responsibilities

• Oversee end-to-end program delivery from planning and design through construction, infrastructure deployment, commissioning, and operational readiness.
• Develop and maintain an integrated master program plan spanning facility development and HPC infrastructure workstreams.
• Track program schedules, capital budgets, forecasts, milestones, quality, risks, and delivery performance.
• Align individual project plans with overall program objectives, phased capacity requirements, and business commitments.
• Establish consistent governance, reporting, milestone reviews, escalation processes, and accountability.
• Maintain risk, assumption, issue, and dependency logs, along with change control and decision tracking.
• Identify critical-path issues, resource constraints, and schedule conflicts; drive mitigation and recovery plans.
• Coordinate dependencies across utility power, on-site generation, electrical distribution, cooling, controls, compute, storage, and networking.
• Integrate HPC deployment milestones into the overall facility construction and commissioning schedule.
• Align GPU and CPU hardware delivery, rack installation, high-speed network connectivity, storage deployment, and platform readiness with power and space.
• Partner with technical leaders to track readiness for cluster installation, configuration, validation, and production handoff.
• Coordinate high-density infrastructure requirements, including liquid cooling, rack power, network fabrics, and supporting mechanical systems.
• Manage sequencing between facility turnover, equipment installation, infrastructure testing, and workload readiness.
• Track dependencies across hardware vendors, infrastructure teams, platform engineering, and operations.
• Serve as the central coordination point across engineering, construction, procurement, supply chain, finance, technology, commissioning, and operations.
• Provide program-level oversight across Project Managers responsible for individual projects, phases, and infrastructure workstreams.
• Integrate project schedules and resolve issues that extend across multiple teams or scopes.
• Align design completion, procurement, installation, testing, commissioning, and turnover activities.
• Coordinate long-lead equipment, material availability, vendor capacity, and supply chain risks.
• Partner with finance on capital planning, expenditure tracking, forecasting, and budget reporting.
• Coordinate with utility providers, permitting authorities, municipalities, and other external stakeholders as required.
• Monitor program commitments across general contractors, specialty contractors, engineering partners, equipment manufacturers, technology vendors, and commissioning providers.
• Track performance against contractual milestones, schedules, quality requirements, and delivery expectations.
• Identify vendor risks affecting construction progress, HPC deployment, commissioning, or operational readiness.
• Ensure external partners understand program priorities, sequencing, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Drive resolution of delivery gaps with internal workstream owners and external partners.
• Maintain visibility into the integrated master schedule and overall critical path.
• Monitor procurement timelines, construction sequencing, infrastructure deployment, and commissioning dependencies.
• Identify emerging risks and lead mitigation, contingency, and recovery planning.
• Evaluate scope, design, and schedule changes for impacts on cost, capacity, technical readiness, and delivery milestones.
• Ensure major changes are documented, approved, and communicated.
• Escalate significant risks and decisions to senior leadership with clear business impacts and recommendations.
• Integrate commissioning and technical validation activities into the overall delivery plan.
• Coordinate construction completion, equipment startup, integrated systems testing, punch-list resolution, and turnover.
• Track readiness across electrical, mechanical, controls, networking, security, life safety, and HPC infrastructure.
• Partner with technical teams to incorporate cluster acceptance testing, performance validation, and infrastructure handoff into program milestones.
• Ensure operations staffing, procedures, documentation, training, and support requirements are ready for turnover.
• Support phased delivery where construction, commissioning, infrastructure deployment, and live operations occur simultaneously.
• Maintain executive dashboards covering schedule, budget, procurement, construction, HPC deployment, commissioning, risk, and overall program health.
• Provide clear visibility into critical-path activities, upcoming milestones, delivery forecasts, and required decisions.
• Translate complex technical and construction issues into business impacts and actionable recommendations.
• Maintain accurate forecasts for capital requirements, capacity availability, and operational turnover.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Schedule management

Budget management

Stakeholder communication

Strategic planning

Hybrid collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Computer Science, or a related discipline

Job description

GTN Technical Staffing is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead a large-scale data center and HPC infrastructure program. This hybrid Dallas-based role oversees design, engineering, construction, power, cooling, procurement, commissioning, and platform readiness, coordinating across multiple teams and vendors for on-time turnover.

You will manage schedules, budgets, risks, and dependencies, ensuring alignment with milestones and operational requirements while collaborating closely with