Senior Manager, Data Hall Design

Implements strategies for the operational planning, design, and optimization of

data center white space, including rack layout, hot/cold aisle containment,

power distribution, cable pathways, and build phases, ensuring alignment with

strategic objectives and operational excellence across region. Manages

collaboration with colocation providers, developers, and internal teams (e.g.,

facilities, construction, operations) across region.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Key Responsibilities

White Space and Infrastructure Design:

-Implements strategies for the operational planning, design, and optimization of

data center white space, including rack layout, hot/cold aisle containment,

power distribution, cable pathways, and build phases, ensuring alignment with

strategic objectives and operational excellence across region.

-Manages the creation and maintenance of comprehensive white space documentation

such as room layouts, rack elevations, bill of materials, and structured cabling

designs, ensuring alignment to support multiple team goals.

-Develops design standards and Basis of Design (BoD) documents applicable to

region, guiding internal and partner teams in delivering white space fit-outs,

ensuring practices are aligned with operational initiatives.

-Leads the development of low voltage structured cabling system designs,

supporting scalable, high-performance compute, storage, and network systems,

providing advanced technical expertise to the team.

-Leads the review process for new site layouts and proposed fit-out designs,

including failover configurations, ensuring compliance with multiple team

standards and proactively implementing improvement initiatives.

Cross-Functional Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:

-Manages collaboration with colocation providers, developers, and internal teams

(e.g., facilities, construction, operations) across region.

-Drives the implementation of complex requirements into white space designs that

align with multiple team objectives.

-Oversees interfacing with multidisciplinary engineering functions (e.g.,

Mechanical, Electrical, Plumbing, Fire, Controls), ensuring robust integration

and reliable system performance.

-Leads high-level project coordination meetings, strategically aligning on

scope, timelines, and critical design updates, ensuring that all elements

contribute to broader team and multiple team success.

-Ensures the execution of multiple team collaboration strategy with technology

partners (e.g., network, compute, carrier) around locating information and

resources.

Project and Program Leadership:

-Oversees and drives white space design initiatives and complex engineering

projects, managing them from conception through execution to achieve strategic

objectives and meet industry standards across region.

-Leads and coordinates internal and external project team members, including

contractors and vendors, during design, fit-out, and commissioning phases,

ensuring cohesive team operations and alignment with multiple team goals.

-Ensures project deliverables meet and exceed company expectations, standards,

and schedules, proactively implementing recommendations to maintain alignment

with operational objectives.

-Provides oversight in contract administration by reviewing change orders, cost

forecasts, and engineering documentation, ensuring compliance and strategic

alignment.

-Mentors and develops junior engineers and new team members, enhancing multiple

team capability by fostering development aligned with multiple team objectives.

Operations Support and Site Validation:

-Oversees on-site design validation, commissioning, and engineering analysis

across new and existing data centers, leveraging operational insights to

optimize design and outcomes across region.

-Serves as a strategic subject matter expert for mission-critical systems,

ensuring seamless integration with ongoing operations and promoting operational

innovations.

-Leads and coordinates engineering support during live events and incident

investigations, ensuring rapid resolution and operational continuity, managing

risks and process improvement.

-Ensures comprehensive documentation is captured, stored, and shared with

operations and field engineering teams, promoting multiple team knowledge

sharing and alignment with strategic goals.

Standards Development and Governance:

-Leads and directs the creation and continuous evolution of regional data center

infrastructure standards, policies, and procedures, ensuring alignment with

multiple team goals and fostering innovation and efficiency.

-Manages the development and review of documentation for standards adherence,

commissioning protocols, and system testing, ensuring accuracy and compliance

across data center operations.

-Influences design summits, policy reviews, and commissioning activities to

drive continuous improvement and alignment with strategic initiatives.

Technical Innovation and Engineering Excellence:

-Manages research and evaluation of new designs, materials, and construction

methods for mission critical systems in data centers, ensuring data center

reliability and efficiency across region.

-Manages the development and testing of engineering solutions, leveraging

advanced modeling, component testing, and engineering principles to resolve

operational challenges and drive enhanced team impact.

-Manages the creation and validation of digitized data center models, driving

design integrity and capacity planning, ensuring alignment with multiple team

goals.

-Evaluates the enhanced reliability and performance of components, systems, and

installation methods used in production environments, providing feedback to

teams on improvements to optimize multiple team capabilities.

-Leads and directs internal engineering seminars, training programs, and

knowledge-sharing initiatives, fostering a culture of continuous learning,

innovation, and growth across teams.

Network Expertise:

-Defines regional global multiple team collaboration strategy with networking

teams on network-related efforts (e.g., building fabrics).

Automation:

-Implements multiple team partnership strategy with software engineering team to

design data into digital systems for automation.

-Executes multiple team processes around the coordination of design data to work

with internal systems and databases.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution:

-Manages multiple medium- to large-scale projects or initiatives across teams,

ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable are monitored and

met. Provides direction to teams on project work, setting priorities, and

aligning with business needs. Guides teams on adjusting plans to accommodate

resource or timeline changes.

Collaboration & Partnership:

-Drives cross-functional partnerships to align on expectations and shared

objectives across multiple teams. Coaches team members to develop strategic

relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and external partners to

foster collaboration and long-term success. Promotes inclusivity by actively

seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and

respected.

Problem Solving:

-Provides direction to multiple teams on addressing complex operational and/or

technical issues as well as providing guidance on analyzing complex data and/or

information to identify solutions. Reviews and provides insights into unresolved

or critical issues, helping the team to identify potential solutions.

Continuous Learning:

-Models engaging in continuous learning to deepen expertise and stay ahead of

industry trends, integrating best practices into strategic planning. Leverages

feedback to drive personal and team skill improvements. Identifies skill gaps

across teams, and empowers team members to pursue learning and knowledge sharing

opportunities that build their expertise in new areas and coaches them to apply

learnings to advance the organization.

Continuous Improvement:

-Drives team to collaborate on, develop, and implement ideas to increase the

efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within and

across teams, providing oversight. Guides team to adopt new ideas for

alternative approaches and methods and encourages feedback for continued

improvement.

Performance and Development:

-Drives performance across teams by providing feedback and coaching in alignment

with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations. Discusses

development goals with team members, shares opportunities to facilitate career

development, and ensures individual goals are aligned with broader

organizational goals. Develops and manages talent acquisition pipeline by

leading candidate interviews, monitoring promotion eligibility, and/or

orchestrating talent resources.

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: $126,200 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.

Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and

expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And

with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that

promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company

leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.

True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why

we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with

competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life

insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to

their communities through our volunteer programs.

We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the

employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for

a disability at any point, let us know by emailing

accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com [accommodation-request_mb@oracle.com] or by

calling 1-888-404-2494 in the United States.

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.