Data Center Services Manager

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

* Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

* 10 years of experience in program management.

* 7 years of experience in leadership role(s) with/without direct reports.

* Experience managing machine learning or artificial intelligence programs.

* Experience with AI, Generative AI, data processing technologies, performance,

or scalability optimizations.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

* Experience managing multi-group, or multi-disciplinary projects.

* Experience in people management and leadership.

* Experience managing construction projects within an international working

environment.

* Experience with commercial contract management and procurement.

* Experience working within the mission critical facilities.

* Experience managing vendor relationships and understanding standard practices

in the design and construction industry.

ABOUT THE JOB:

Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep

the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering

challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead

complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering

expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects

through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules,

identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're

equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to

executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development

with engineers.

Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage various

Engineering-specific programs and teams.

As the Data Center Services Manager, you will be fully involved in nearly every

aspect of the design development and localisation, procurement, schedule and

cost management, delivery, commissioning, handover and close-out of the data

center projects, including facility upgrades within operational data centres.

You will partner with our local/regional facility managers, plant engineers, our

design, project controls, delivery and commissioning teams, to develop scalable

solutions at pace.

This role requires you to manage complex schedules, budgets and broad

inter-dependencies, all while maintaining industry leading EHS and Quality

standards.The role of the Data Center Services (DCS) manager requires strong

communication, collaborative and organisational skills, with the ability to

self-direct. You will manage a team and therefore strong leadership skills are

required.

The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated

electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative,

team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful

data centers.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Manage a large, campus-wide data center construction and delivery

organization with the DCS Manager as the single point of accountability and

oversight for major projects utilizing internal and outsourced resources.

* Support the development of detailed, localized designs, leveraging the

programmatic design plan of record, while driving procurement, construction,

commissioning, close out, and hand-off to the Operations team to meet safety,

cost, schedule, quality, and customer requirements.

* Lead problem-solving engagement with partners to overcome issues that affect

the delivery of projects.

* Establish and maintain delivery models and global relationships with multiple

vendors, measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics.

* Drive the proactive identification, selection, and onboarding of new regional

contractors and vendors to increase the current bench.