Strategic Leadership Responsibilities
The Senior Director will define and lead the strategic direction for data center delivery and quality assurance across the portfolio. This includes establishing enterprise-wide delivery standards, governance processes, quality expectations, escalation models, and performance metrics that improve delivery certainty and reduce execution risk.
This leader will be responsible for building a scalable organization that can support complex data center construction and colocation programs across multiple sites, providers, and geographies. The role will drive alignment between business capacity needs, technical standards, construction execution, quality management, and operational readiness.
Key strategic responsibilities include:
Work with Business Operations and the PMO to establish and lead the enterprise strategy for data center delivery and quality assurance and define the operating model, governance structure, decision rights, and escalation paths for data center delivery programs.
Align data center delivery activities with business objectives, capacity requirements, cost expectations, quality standards, and operational needs.
Drive cross-functional leadership across architecture, design, engineering, construction, staging, installation, integration, commissioning, operations, vendors, and colocation providers.
Organizational Leadership Scope
The Senior Director will lead and mature a functional organization that includes the following capability areas:
Delivery Strategy and Portfolio Governance
Responsible for coordinating with Business Operations and PMO on portfolio-level delivery strategy, governance forums, operating models, executive reporting, business reviews, performance metrics, and cross-functional decision-making processes.
Data Center Delivery Leadership
Responsible for oversight of construction execution, colocation delivery, regional and site delivery teams, tenant fit-out, white space delivery, schedule performance, field execution, and construction coordination.
Quality Assurance and Quality Control
Responsible for establishing QA/QC standards, quality gates, inspection and validation processes, design quality requirements, installation standards, integration standards, site acceptance standards, defect management, rework reduction, and corrective action tracking.
Engineering, Standards, and Technical Integration
Responsible for aligning solution architecture, design standards, site engineering, staging requirements, installation specifications, integration specifications, constructability reviews, and technical issue resolution.
Risk, Controls, and Delivery Assurance
Responsible for independent project risk assessment, schedule and cost risk visibility, risk register governance, mitigation tracking, delivery readiness assessments, escalation management, and corrective action governance.
Site Acceptance and Operational Handoff
Responsible for commissioning readiness coordination, site acceptance criteria, closeout documentation, operational readiness checklists, project handoff standards, lessons learned capture, and transition to operations.
Provider, Vendor, and Stakeholder Management
Responsible for colocation provider performance management, vendor oversight, provider scorecards, stakeholder engagement, executive escalation support, and coordination with procurement, legal, finance, contractors, consultants, and delivery partners.
Significant leadership experience managing construction, delivery, engineering, project management, QA/QC, or infrastructure teams.
Proven track record of delivering complex infrastructure programs while improving standards, governance, quality, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and operational readiness.
Experience working with colocation providers, hyperscalers , general contractors, engineering firms, design teams, construction teams, commissioning teams, vendors, and operations stakeholders.
The ideal candidate is a senior data center infrastructure leader who combines deep construction and technical delivery expertise with strong strategic leadership, organizational design capability, and executive influence.
This leader is not only a manager of projects, but an alignment leader across multiple functions. They hold providers accountable, and ensure quality is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle.
They are comfortable operating in ambiguity, resolving complex cross-functional issues, influencing senior stakeholders, and making decisions that balance business urgency, technical risk, cost, schedule, quality, and long-term operational outcomes.
Success in this role will be measured by the organization’s ability to improve delivery certainty, quality performance, risk visibility, provider accountability, and operational readiness across the data center portfolio.
Key success measures include:
Increased consistency across design, construction, installation, integration, acceptance, and handoff processes.
