Senior Data Center Design Lead, Cloud Infrastructure

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 126,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Parental leave

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Principal Design Manager to lead the end-to-end design lifecycle for Oracle Cloud data center projects, partnering with engineering, construction, and operations to ensure safe, reliable, and scalable infrastructure. This is an individual contributor role in a matrixed team, with travel within the US and internationally required.

Full-time with Oracle benefits. The role emphasizes cross-disciplinary coordination, clear technical direction, and delivering design solutions that

Responsibilities

• Own and oversee the end-to-end design lifecycle for Oracle Cloud data center critical infrastructure, including requirements development, detailed design, construction issue resolution, coordination with commissioning teams, and handover to operations.
• Partner with engineering teams (mechanical, electrical, controls, network, and systems integration) to ensure designs meet performance, reliability, scalability, and operability requirements.
• Represent the Engineering organization in cross-OCI and cross-functional forums, providing clear technical direction and aligning stakeholders.
• Communicate complex tradeoffs clearly to executive leadership, enabling data-driven decisions on cost, schedule, risk, and capacity.
• Maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, external design consultants, construction partners, and vendors to resolve conflicts and ensure alignment.
• Provide design oversight during pre-construction, construction, and QA/QC phases, resolving issues and managing changes.
• Travel to data center sites (approx. 10-25%) to support field execution and resolve design-related issues.
• Respond to build/construction issues with timely technical leadership, root cause analysis, and corrective action.
• Lead recurring project/design coordination meetings, solicit feedback, identify risks, and remove blockers to maintain momentum.
• Lead design reviews, value engineering, and technical due diligence with stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and refining standards, processes, and tooling.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Oracle is seeking a Principal Design Manager to lead the end-to-end design lifecycle for Oracle Cloud data center projects, partnering with engineering, construction, and operations to ensure safe, reliable, and scalable infrastructure. This is an individual contributor role in a matrixed team, with travel within the US and internationally required.

Full-time with Oracle benefits. The role emphasizes cross-disciplinary coordination, clear technical direction, and delivering design solutions that