Senior Data Center Build & Design Program Lead

TensorWave; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock Options

Health Insurance

401(k)

Flexible PTO

Paid Holidays

Parental Leave

Job summary

TensorWave seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Center Build and Design to lead on-site delivery at a major data facility. You will manage the thirteen-gate process, drive the integrated schedule, coordinate with GC, landlords, and vendors, and maintain risk and decision logs for executive visibility.

You will own the day-to-day delivery tempo, ensuring milestones align with design, construction, commissioning, and turn-over to operations while traveling monthly to the assigned campus

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years in technical program management or delivery roles with direct ownership of data center design and construction delivery.
• Experience taking at least one large scale data center or multi-phase campus from design through commissioning and into service.
• Working fluency with stage gate delivery governance: written entry criteria, gate packages, and decision records.
• Personal fluency in schedule logic at Primavera P6 grade or equivalent, critical path analysis, risk register discipline, and decision logs.
• Working depth across data center infrastructure: power architecture, cooling (including liquid cooling), structured cabling and fiber plant, and commissioning level structures.

Responsibilities

• Phase gate execution: run the thirteen gate delivery structure for the assigned campus and track gate outcomes.
• Site-level integrated schedule: own design and build layer of the campus schedule and produce site status for leadership.
• General contractor and colocation partner coordination: manage interfaces and acceptance across contractors and landlords.
• On-site risk and issue management: maintain risk register, identify blockers, and escalate with options.
• Cross-functional coordination: serve as single point of coordination between Construction Engineering, Design, MEP, Network, and Operations.
• Feed the playbook: capture cycle time data per gate and contribute to the delivery playbook.

Skills

Technical program management

Gate delivery governance

Schedule management

Cross-functional coordination

Risk management

On-site leadership

Tools

Primavera P6

Job description

TensorWave seeks a Senior Technical Program Manager, Data Center Build and Design to lead on-site delivery at a major data facility. You will manage the thirteen-gate process, drive the integrated schedule, coordinate with GC, landlords, and vendors, and maintain risk and decision logs for executive visibility.

You will own the day-to-day delivery tempo, ensuring milestones align with design, construction, commissioning, and turn-over to operations while traveling monthly to the assigned campus