Senior Director, Special Projects – Data Center Operations (Nashville, TN)

Oracle; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 193,600 - 414,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Life insurance

FSA and commuter benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Paid sick leave

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee stock purchase plan

Financial planning

Voluntary benefits

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Senior Director, Special Projects to lead a construction-focused data center portfolio across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You will drive strategy, governance, and executive reporting while coordinating with Construction, Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Safety, and Security to deliver high-impact remediation and capacity improvements.

You will shape playbooks, standards, and repeatable delivery while developing leaders and ensuring safety, outages, and operational

Qualifications

• 15+ years in construction or data center delivery leadership.
• 7+ years of people leadership in large teams.
• Experience managing large, complex portfolios in critical environments.
• Strong governance, reporting, and change-management skills.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and align executives around priorities.

Responsibilities

• Set strategy and governance for the Special Projects portfolio across sites or global programs.
• Lead remediation, retrofits, and capacity upgrades within live data centers.
• Own portfolio prioritization, staffing, budget alignment, and risk governance.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to align scope with operational needs.
• Ensure safety, outage planning, and operational readiness in all projects.
• Develop dashboards, playbooks, and repeatable delivery standards.
• Build leaders and cross-functional execution across teams.

Skills

Executive leadership

Strategic governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Budget and risk management

Portfolio visibility

Continuous improvement

Education

Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, facilities management, operations, or equivalent

Tools

Primavera

MS Project

Procore

Smartsheet

CMMS

DCIM

BIM

Job description

As Senior Director, Special Projects, you will lead a construction-focused portfolio of strategic data center projects that improve capacity, reliability, safety, maintainability, and operational readiness across Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. This role owns the operating model for complex remediation, retrofit, expansion, lifecycle, and infrastructure improvement programs that sit outside routine delivery but are critical to long-term site performance.

Role Overview

You will lead directors, managers, technical SMEs, project managers, vendors, and cross-functional partners across Construction, Engineering, Commissioning, Data Center Operations, Reliability, Procurement, Finance, Safety, and Security. The role requires executive leadership, deep construction and operational judgment, and the ability to create scalable governance for high-risk work across active mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategy, operating model, and governance framework for the Special Projects construction portfolio across assigned sites, regions, or global programs.
• Lead teams responsible for remediation, retrofits, infrastructure upgrades, capacity improvements, lifecycle replacements, and construction-driven operational improvements.
• Own portfolio prioritization, staffing strategy, budget alignment, risk governance, executive reporting, and escalation management.
• Partner with Construction, Engineering, Operations, Reliability, Commissioning, Procurement, Finance, Safety, Security, and vendors to align project scope with operational needs.
• Ensure projects are planned and executed with strong safety controls, change management, outage planning, customer impact awareness, and operational readiness discipline.
• Drive resolution of complex construction, design, commissioning, procurement, schedule, and stakeholder issues.
• Establish portfolio dashboards, KPIs, risk registers, decision logs, and governance cadences for leadership visibility.
• Ensure special projects produce complete turnover documentation, asset data, commissioning evidence, warranty records, and operational handoff materials.
• Lead development of playbooks, standards, templates, and repeatable project delivery practices.
• Build and develop leaders and senior individual contributors, reinforcing accountability, technical rigor, and cross-functional execution.
• Identify systemic risks across the portfolio and sponsor corrective actions that improve reliability, maintainability, and capital efficiency.
• Represent Special Projects in executive reviews, funding discussions, site readiness forums, and major incident or remediation planning.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• 15+ years of experience in construction, data center delivery, mission-critical infrastructure, engineering, facilities operations, capital projects, or special projects leadership.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including leading managers, senior project leaders, technical SMEs, or distributed construction teams.
• Experience managing large, complex construction or remediation portfolios in active data center, utility, industrial, manufacturing, or high-availability environments.
• Strong understanding of MEP infrastructure, commissioning, construction closeout, operational handoff, safety, change management, and site operations constraints.
• Demonstrated ability to build governance models, dashboards, operating rhythms, and executive reporting for complex portfolios.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, architecture, facilities management, operations, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills and Competencies

• Executive leadership with strong judgment across construction risk, operational impact, schedule, budget, and safety.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and align multiple executive stakeholders around clear priorities.
• Strong team development, coaching, staffing, and performance management capability.
• Deep cross-functional partnership across build, operate, procure, engineer, and finance functions.
• High accountability for portfolio visibility, issue resolution, governance, and measurable outcomes.
• Continuous improvement mindset focused on scalable standards and repeatable delivery quality.

Preferred Skills / Certifications

• Experience with hyperscale data centers, colocation facilities, utilities, semiconductor, critical manufacturing, or complex infrastructure portfolios.
• PMP, PgMP, CCM, PE, LEED, OSHA, Six Sigma, or related construction, engineering, or project management certification.
• Experience with Primavera, MS Project, Procore, Smartsheet, CMMS, DCIM, BIM, commissioning tools, or portfolio reporting platforms.
• Familiarity with BMS/EPMS, switchgear, UPS, generators, cooling systems, controls, fire/life safety, and operational procedures.
• Experience leading projects in live critical environments with outage, change, safety, access, and customer-impact constraints.

Physical Demands / Work Environment

This role operates across office, remote collaboration, construction, commissioning, and active data center environments. The position requires travel to project sites and leadership reviews. Site visits may involve walking large facilities, standing for extended periods, using stairs, and following all safety, PPE, security, and access-control requirements.

Salary and Benefits

US: Hiring range in USD from $193,600 - $414,400 per year. Possible bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, supplemental life insurance, health care and dependent care FSA, pre-tax commuter and parking benefits, 401(k) with company match, paid time off, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, and voluntary benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.