Sr. Director, Design Quality & Reliability – OCI Data Center Infrastructure

Ll Oefentherapie; United States; On-site; USD 250,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Ll Oefentherapie seeks a senior leader to establish and scale the Design Quality & Reliability function for OCI data centre infrastructure, developing strategy, operating model, governance, metrics and an actionable roadmap.

You will build a multidisciplinary team spanning reliability engineering, supplier quality, design assurance and validation, and set organisational processes to ensure reliability, lifecycle performance and risk reduction across the infrastructure lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience leading reliability and quality programs across large-scale infrastructure.
• Ability to establish governance, metrics and execution roadmaps for cross-functional teams.
• Proven track record building and scaling multidisciplinary engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Establish and scale OCI’s Design Quality & Reliability organization for AI data centre infrastructure.
• Develop strategy, operating model, governance, metrics, and execution roadmap for the function.
• Build and lead a multidisciplinary team spanning reliability engineering, supplier quality, design assurance and validation.
• Define organisational processes and standards for quality and reliability across the infrastructure lifecycle.
• Ensure infrastructure designs meet reliability, resiliency, maintainability, and lifecycle performance requirements.
• Drive design assurance processes that validate design intent against operational requirements and long-term reliability objectives.
• Lead cross-functional design reviews focused on reliability risk reduction, failure prevention.
• Establish reliability engineering methodologies including FMEA, fault tree analysis, accelerated life testing, and design-for-reliability practices.
• Define qualification and acceptance criteria for critical infrastructure products and systems used in OCI data centres.
• Establish product quality benchmarks and reliability performance targets, including AFR, IDR, MTBF, and other indicators.
• Develop supplier quality management frameworks and collaborate with strategic suppliers to improve product reliability and manufacturing quality.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective action processes for field failures and reliability excursions.
• Develop KPI dashboards and measurement systems to benchmark design and product reliability performance across the OCI infrastructure portfolio.
• Analyse field performance data, warranty trends, incidents, and failure modes to identify systemic improvement opportunities.
• Establish data-driven processes to recommend and implement design, component, or supplier changes that improve quality, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Benchmark OCI performance against hyperscale and industry best practices.
• Partner with Infrastructure Capacity Delivery, Operations, Supply Chain, and Product teams to embed reliability objectives throughout the lifecycle.
• Influence strategic technology and supplier selection decisions using quality and reliability data.
• Provide executive-level reporting on reliability performance, risks, and improvement initiatives.

Skills

Reliability engineering

Supplier quality

Design assurance

Validation

FMEA

Job description

Key Responsibilities

Build and Lead the Function

• Establish and scale OCI’s Design Quality & Reliability organization for AI data centre infrastructure.
• Develop the strategy, operating model, governance, metrics, and execution roadmap for the function.
• Build and lead a high-performing multidisciplinary team spanning reliability engineering, supplier quality, design assurance and validation,
• Define organisational processes and standards for quality and reliability across the infrastructure lifecycle.

Design Quality & Reliability Leadership

• Ensure infrastructure designs meet OCI reliability, resiliency, maintainability, and lifecycle performance requirements.
• Drive design assurance processes that validate design intent against operational requirements and long-term reliability objectives.
• Lead cross-functional design reviews focused on reliability risk reduction, failure prevention.
• Establish reliability engineering methodologies including FMEA, fault tree analysis, accelerated life testing, and design-for-reliability practices.

Product Quality & Supplier Reliability

• Define qualification and acceptance criteria for critical infrastructure products and systems used in OCI data centres.
• Establish product quality benchmarks and reliability performance targets, including AFR (Annualised Failure Rate), IDR, MTBF, and other key reliability indicators.
• Develop supplier quality management frameworks and collaborate with strategic suppliers to improve product reliability and manufacturing quality.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective action processes for field failures and reliability excursions.

Metrics, Benchmarking & Continuous Improvement

• Develop KPI dashboards and measurement systems to benchmark design and product reliability performance across the OCI infrastructure portfolio.
• Analyse field performance data, warranty trends, operational incidents, and failure modes to identify systemic improvement opportunities.
• Establish data-driven processes to recommend and implement design, component, or supplier changes that improve quality, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Benchmark OCI performance against hyperscale and industry best practices.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner with Infrastructure Capacity Delivery, Operations, Supply Chain, and Product teams to ensure reliability objectives are embedded throughout the lifecycle.
• Influence strategic technology and supplier selection decisions using quality and reliability data.
• Provide executive-level reporting on reliability performance, risks, and improvement initiatives.