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

Oracle; United States; Presencial; USD 193.600 - 414.400; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Comprehensive benefits

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Descripción de la vacante

Oracle is seeking a Senior Director, Special Projects to lead a portfolio of data center initiatives. You will shape governance, drive performance, and coordinate cross-functional teams across Construction, Engineering, Operations, Reliability, and Procurement.

The role focuses on high-risk, mission-critical environments and long-term site performance. You will build scalable playbooks, dashboards, and executive reporting, while developing leaders and ensuring seamless turnover and handoff

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, construction management, or related field.

Responsabilidades

• Set the strategy, operating model, and governance framework for the Special Projects construction portfolio.
• Lead teams responsible for remediation, retrofits, infrastructure upgrades, lifecycle replacements, and related improvements.
• Own portfolio prioritization, staffing strategy, budget alignment, risk governance, executive reporting, and escalation management.
• Partner with multiple functions to align project scope with operational needs and safety controls.
• Ensure projects are planned and executed with strong safety, change management, and outage planning.

Conocimientos

Executive leadership

Governance

Cross-functional collaboration

Data center operations

Change management

Budget management

Staff development

Educación

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

Herramientas

Primavera

MS Project

Procore

Smartsheet

CMMS

DCIM

BIM

Descripción del empleo

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.