Lead Principal Data Center Site Selection Manager

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a highly experienced Lead Principal, Data

Center & Power Sourcing to drive strategic, critical, and high-impact

infrastructure programs directly supporting the EVP of Infrastructure. This is a

highly visible senior individual contributor role at the center of Oracle’s data

center growth strategy, focused on accelerating capacity, power, and site

sourcing decisions that enable the business to meet rapidly evolving customer

and product demand.

This individual will work across executive leadership, capacity planning, data

center engineering, power and utilities, networking, construction, finance,

legal, security, compliance, procurement, and operations to shape and execute

complex sourcing strategies. The role requires exceptional judgment, executive

presence, analytical depth, and the ability to turn ambiguous, fast-moving

inputs into crisp recommendations, decision-ready materials, and executable

plans.

The ideal candidate is a strategic operator who can move quickly, communicate

clearly with senior executives, manage sensitive and high-stakes workstreams,

and drive outcomes across multiple stakeholders without waiting for perfect

information.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities

* Lead strategic data center and power sourcing initiatives that directly

support the priorities of the EVP of Infrastructure.

* Drive high-priority programs requiring quick turnarounds, strong executive

communication, and clear decision-making under ambiguity.

* Develop and present executive-ready materials, including investment

write-ups, sourcing recommendations, market assessments, risk summaries, and

decision memos.

* Evaluate global and regional data center and power opportunities, including

site availability, market dynamics, utility readiness, commercial terms,

delivery risk, cost, schedule, and scalability.

* Partner with capacity planning, engineering, construction, networking,

finance, legal, procurement, security, compliance, and operations teams to

align sourcing strategy with business demand.

* Lead cross-functional workstreams to evaluate, negotiate, and recommend data

center, power, lease, build-to-suit, wholesale, retail, and hybrid

infrastructure solutions.

* Conduct market research on targeted metros, countries, regions, data center

providers, power markets, utility constraints, and emerging infrastructure

opportunities.

* Support commercial negotiations with data center operators, landowners,

utilities, developers, and other external stakeholders.

* Help structure and negotiate complex agreements, including leases, service

orders, operating agreements, amendments, renewals, power-related agreements,

and related commercial documents.

* Drive accountability across internal and external partners to ensure delivery

against safety, quality, cost, schedule, capacity, operational, and business

requirements.

* Build and maintain accurate systems of record, executive reporting, program

dashboards, and materials that improve leadership visibility into sourcing

priorities and risks.

* Identify risks, tradeoffs, dependencies, and decision points early, and

proactively escalate with clear recommendations.

* Operate as a trusted strategic partner to the Chief of Staff, Head of

Business Operations, and senior Infrastructure leadership on critical

initiatives.

Required Qualifications

* Significant experience leading complex data center, infrastructure, energy,

power, site selection, real estate, procurement, development, or commercial

sourcing initiatives.

* Strong understanding of data center markets, operators, site selection, lease

structures, infrastructure delivery, and mission-critical environments.

* Experience with complex negotiations, contract formation, commercial terms,

and cross-functional deal execution.

* Familiarity with power sourcing, utility engagement, grid constraints,

sustainable infrastructure practices, and power-related commercial

considerations.

* Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to

synthesize complex information into clear, concise, decision-ready

narratives.

* Proven ability to support senior executives on strategic, high-visibility,

and time-sensitive priorities.

* Strong analytical skills, including market analysis, financial modeling, TCO

analysis, scenario planning, and risk assessment.

* Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across

technical, commercial, legal, finance, and executive audiences.

* Demonstrated ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and

rapidly changing environment.

* Strong ownership mindset and willingness to do what it takes to drive

critical workstreams to completion.

* Ability to manage multiple priorities, deliver high-quality work quickly, and

maintain accuracy under pressure.

* Strong written and verbal communication skills.

* Advanced Excel and presentation skills; ability to build crisp

executive-level materials and data-backed recommendations.

* Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

* 10+ years of experience with hyperscale cloud infrastructure, AI

infrastructure, data center leasing, power procurement, energy strategy, or

large-scale infrastructure development.

* Background in real estate development, land acquisition, utility

negotiations, permitting, or infrastructure finance.

* Experience working directly with executive leadership, Chiefs of Staff,

business operations teams, or strategic program offices.

* Familiarity with global data center markets, power-constrained regions, and

emerging infrastructure hubs.

* Experience building operating cadences, dashboards, executive reporting, and

governance mechanisms for large-scale programs.

* Ability and willingness to travel as needed for data center visits, partner

meetings, market reviews, and critical sourcing activities.

Success Profile

The successful candidate will be able to move seamlessly between strategy and

execution. They will be comfortable working with incomplete information,

distilling complex infrastructure tradeoffs, driving alignment across senior

stakeholders, and producing high-quality executive materials on short timelines.

They will bring credibility with technical and commercial teams, sound business

judgment, and the ability to influence decisions that directly impact Oracle’s

infrastructure growth.

This is a high-impact senior individual contributor role for someone who thrives

in visible, mission-critical environments and wants to help shape the next phase

of Oracle’s global data center and power strategy.

QUALIFICATIONS

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to

comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health

mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the

stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $116,600 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible

for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for

variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as

well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as

well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

2. Short term disability and long term disability

3. Life insurance and AD&D

4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees

assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is

provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees

working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days

annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for

subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees

working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours

per week are not eligible for vacation.

9. 11 paid holidays

10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes

each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap

of 112 hours.

11. Paid parental leave

12. Adoption assistance

13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

14. Financial planning and group legal

15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days

from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law,

US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which

involves the collection and processing of their biometric information.

Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized

assessment.

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