Senior Director, Power Systems Engineering – OCI Data Center Infrastructure

The organization will engage at the earliest stages of site development to

evaluate power feasibility and risk, establish the technical strategy for

delivering power to the site, and work directly with utilities and energy

partners to develop solutions that improve capacity, resiliency, flexibility,

and speed to market. The team will also own the engineering, modeling, testing,

and technical validation necessary to ensure new power solutions perform as

intended before they are deployed at scale.

This role will partner closely with OCI’s Energy Contracting, Design

Engineering, Capacity Delivery, Construction, Commissioning, and Operations

organizations. While commercial organizations retain ownership of energy

procurement and commercial agreements, Power Systems Engineering will provide

the technical analysis, requirements, system architecture, and engineering

judgment necessary to inform those decisions.

The ideal candidate combines deep power systems expertise with demonstrated

experience developing innovative utility and behind-the-meter power solutions,

building strong engineering teams, and translating complex grid and generation

challenges into scalable infrastructure strategies.

Key Responsibilities

Power Systems Engineering Leadership

* Build and lead OCI’s global Power Systems Engineering organization. 

* Serve as OCI’s senior technical authority for utility-facing and campus-level

power systems. 

* Establish OCI’s long-term power systems engineering strategy supporting

rapidly growing AI and cloud infrastructure requirements. 

* Develop scalable technical solutions spanning utility supply, transmission,

substations, energy storage, load management, on-site generation, and grid

integration. 

* Establish engineering standards, design philosophies, modeling requirements,

technical acceptance criteria, and validation methodologies for power

systems. 

* Build a strong team of power systems engineers capable of solving both

immediate deployment challenges and developing long-term fleet solutions. 

* Create mechanisms to transition successful site-specific and first-of-a-kind

solutions into repeatable global standards. 

Utility Interconnection & Grid Engineering

* Lead technical engineering for OCI’s utility interconnections and grid

integration globally. 

* Engage with utilities, transmission providers, ISOs/RTOs, developers, and

engineering partners to evaluate and develop power delivery solutions. 

* Define technical requirements for transmission interfaces, substations,

interconnection facilities, protection and controls, and campus electrical

interfaces. 

* Evaluate utility system capability, infrastructure constraints, reliability,

power quality, fault duty, and expansion requirements. 

* Identify technical alternatives that accelerate energization or unlock

additional capacity where traditional utility solutions cannot meet OCI’s

requirements. 

* Partner with Energy Contracting on utility negotiations by providing

technical analysis, engineering alternatives, and infrastructure requirements

while maintaining clear separation between technical and commercial

ownership. 

Early Site Power Engineering

* Lead power-system technical due diligence for prospective OCI locations. 

* Assess utility capacity, transmission availability, interconnection

complexity, system reliability, power quality, infrastructure expansion

requirements, and delivery risk. 

* Develop conceptual power architectures and alternatives during site selection

and early development. 

* Identify technical constraints that could affect capacity, schedule,

resiliency, or future campus expansion. 

* Develop power strategies that create optionality when utility infrastructure

or interconnection schedules present material risk. 

* Partner with Real Estate, Site Development, Capacity Planning, and Energy

Contracting to incorporate power-system feasibility into site and investment

decisions. 

BESS & Energy Storage

* Own OCI’s engineering strategy for battery energy storage systems and other

energy-storage technologies. 

* Develop use cases for BESS spanning resiliency, grid support, load

management, transient response, capacity optimization, and utility

integration. 

* Establish technical requirements and architectures for integrating BESS with

utility and campus electrical systems. 

* Evaluate system sizing, controls, protection, operating modes, degradation,

lifecycle performance, safety, and maintainability. 

* Develop modeling and testing methodologies to validate performance under both

grid and data center operating conditions. 

* Partner with OEMs and technology providers to influence product development

based on OCI’s scale and workload characteristics. 

Utility Load Management & Grid-Support Solutions

* Partner with utilities to evaluate load curtailment, demand response,

ramp-rate management, peak reduction, flexible load, and other grid-support

mechanisms. 

* Develop architectures that coordinate data center load, BESS, on-site

generation, and utility supply.  

* Quantify the capacity, reliability, and operational implications of proposed

load-management strategies. 

* Establish engineering guardrails that allow OCI to participate in utility

programs without compromising customer workloads or infrastructure

reliability. 

* Partner with internal compute and infrastructure teams to understand evolving

AI load characteristics and translate them into grid-interface requirements. 

On-Site Generation Engineering

* Own the engineering strategy and technical requirements for on-site power

generation. 

* Evaluate and develop solutions using natural gas generation, fuel cells,

microgrids, renewable generation, and emerging generation technologies. 

* Lead electrical architecture development including generation configuration,

synchronization, protection, controls, grounding, black-start capability,

islanding, and utility interaction. 

* Evaluate fuel supply, generation reliability, emissions constraints,

maintainability, operating modes, and infrastructure redundancy as part of

the overall system design. 

* Establish standardized architectures where possible while supporting

site-specific utility and regulatory requirements. 

* Partner with Operations to ensure generation solutions can be safely operated

and maintained throughout their lifecycle. 

Power System Modeling & Analysis

* Establish advanced modeling capabilities using PSCAD, ETAP, SKM, EMTP, or

equivalent engineering platforms. 

* Lead load flow, short-circuit, protection coordination, harmonic, transient,

dynamic stability, grounding, and arc-flash analysis as appropriate. 

* Develop models that capture the increasingly dynamic behavior of AI data

center loads and their interaction with the utility grid. 

* Evaluate interactions between utility systems, generation, BESS, UPS

technologies, and large dynamic compute loads. 

* Use modeling to inform architecture decisions, technology selection,

operating limits, and risk mitigation. 

* Develop repeatable modeling methodologies and technical acceptance criteria

across the global fleet. 

Testing, Validation & FOAK Engineering

* Own the technical validation strategy for new power-system architectures and

technologies. 

* Develop First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) qualification plans before technologies are

deployed broadly across OCI. 

* Establish factory, laboratory, and site testing requirements for BESS,

generation, grid-support equipment, protection systems, and emerging

technologies. 

* Develop test scenarios that validate normal operation, transitions, failure

modes, recovery, dynamic response, and interactions between systems. 

* Partner with OEMs, laboratories, utilities, Commissioning, and Operations to

execute validation programs. 

* Ensure engineering decisions are supported by modeling and empirical test

evidence rather than vendor specifications alone. 

* Establish criteria for transitioning technologies from prototype or FOAK

deployment into approved fleet solutions. 

Technology Strategy & OEM Engagement

* Evaluate emerging technologies that could materially improve power

availability, resiliency, utilization, cost, or speed to market. 

* Establish strategic technical relationships with utilities, OEMs, generation

providers, BESS suppliers, and power-technology companies. 

* Influence OEM product roadmaps based on OCI’s future power requirements. 

* Develop technology qualification and adoption roadmaps. 

* Balance innovation with the engineering rigor required for mission-critical

infrastructure. 

* Identify opportunities to simplify and standardize the power architectures

deployed across OCI. 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Required Experience

* 15+ years of progressive experience in power systems engineering, utility

infrastructure, generation, transmission, energy storage, or large-scale

mission-critical infrastructure. 

* Significant experience leading senior power systems engineers and building

high-performing technical organizations. 

* Deep expertise in utility interconnections, transmission and distribution

systems, substations, protection and controls, and power-system analysis. 

* Demonstrated experience developing or integrating BESS, on-site generation,

microgrids, load-management, or other behind-the-meter power solutions. 

* Strong understanding of utility system planning, grid constraints,

interconnection processes, and large-load customers. 

* Experience developing and validating complex power architectures through

modeling and physical testing. 

* Demonstrated ability to influence utilities, OEMs, engineering partners, and

senior internal stakeholders without relying solely on organizational

authority. 

* Ability to translate complex technical issues into clear engineering and

business recommendations. 

Preferred Qualifications

* Experience supporting hundreds-of-MW to GW-scale infrastructure

developments. 

* Expertise with PSCAD, ETAP, SKM, EMTP, or equivalent power-system analysis

tools. 

* Experience with dynamic load modeling and the power characteristics of large

AI or high-performance computing environments. 

* Experience developing large-scale BESS, natural gas generation, fuel-cell, or

microgrid solutions. 

* Experience developing utility demand-response, flexible-load, or grid-support

programs for large industrial customers. 

* Experience establishing FOAK technology qualification and testing programs. 

* Professional Engineer (PE) license and/or advanced degree in Electrical

Engineering or a related discipline preferred. 

Leadership Characteristics

* Recognized technical leader with deep credibility in power systems

engineering. 

* Able to move between long-term power strategy and detailed technical problem

solving. 

* Willing to challenge conventional utility and data center power architectures

when existing solutions cannot meet OCI’s scale or speed requirements. 

* Uses modeling, testing, and data to drive technical decisions. 

* Builds strong partnerships while maintaining clear engineering standards and

technical accountability. 

* Develops senior technical talent and creates an environment where engineers

challenge assumptions and solve problems collaboratively. 

* Comfortable operating in ambiguity and developing solutions for power

challenges that have not previously existed at this scale. 

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: $182,000 to $414,400 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.

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