ATC Deployment Enablement Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Colorado.

📋 Description

• Develop, manage, and lead DNE's half-over-half execution roadmap encompassing new builds, front-end fabric projects, technology upgrades, retrofits, and special initiatives.

• Transform the approved Plan of Record and engineering priorities into a deployable portfolio that includes scope, milestones, sequencing, resource requirements, and committed timelines.

• Assess new demands against portfolio capacity, hardware availability, site readiness, and existing obligations.

• Facilitate prioritization and tradeoff discussions when multiple projects vie for shared hardware, engineering support, field resources, or deployment timelines.

• Maintain a comprehensive view of the portfolio that includes planned, committed, active, at-risk, and completed tasks.

• Responsible for project intake and validating execution artifacts, readiness criteria, dependencies, assumptions, exceptions, and unresolved decisions.

• Oversee program execution from accepted intake through kickoff, material delivery, field installation, provisioning, validation, operational handoff, and project closure.

• Create and sustain integrated schedules that encompass engineering, delivery, deployment, construction, site teams, logistics, sourcing, vendors, and operations.

• Lead kickoff meetings, weekly execution reviews, milestone evaluations, and decision forums with clearly assigned owners, due dates, and escalation pathways.

• Propel stage-gate completion and ensure thorough, timely, and actionable handoffs.

• Confirm acceptance criteria, open defects, operational responsibilities, and residual risks before project closure.

• Maintain visibility at the portfolio level regarding hardware demand, supply, allocation, and deployment deadlines.

• Collaborate with logistics, sourcing, supply chain, and hardware program teams to verify BOMs, forecast demand, monitor purchase orders or pooled allocations, and confirm material arrivals.

• Identify shortages, substitutions, excess allocations, and delayed materials before they impact milestones.

• Lead allocation trade-offs across projects and regions while tracking emergency material requests.

• Maintain risk and dependency registers that quantify schedule impacts, mitigation strategies, owners, due dates, and escalation thresholds.

• Recognize cross-domain dependencies and manage programmatic change control for design, BOM, scope, priority, and schedule modifications.

• Strategically escalate issues when decisions, resource limitations, or unresolved risks jeopardize scope, schedule, quality, or operational readiness.

• Coordinate SEV-related program activities and monitor permanent follow-up tasks to completion.

• Act as the primary point of accountability for the assigned DNE deployment portfolios.

• Foster partnerships across engineering, deployment, procurement, sourcing, site teams, PM/PC partners, vendors, and operations.

• Drive decisions and accountability without direct authority.

• Provide succinct leadership updates and present delivery health, capacity readiness, material risks, and execution trends.

• Maintain precise execution data and utilize deployment dashboards and hardware trackers.

• Create automated status reporting, portfolio scorecards, dependency views, and exception-based reporting.

• Define data ownership and resolve conflicting dates, statuses, or scopes across systems.

• Lead retrospectives and translate lessons learned into enhanced intake standards, readiness gates, templates, automation, and training.

• Develop reusable playbooks and mentor PM/PC partners and new team members.

• Minimize duplicate meetings, manual reporting, and ambiguous handoffs while enhancing visibility and accountability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in technical program or portfolio management within network infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, data centers, telecommunications, or other large-scale physical infrastructure settings.

• Proven track record of managing complex, multi-site deployment programs from intake to operational handoff.

• Experience in creating roadmaps, integrated schedules, readiness gates, dependency models, risk registers, and quantifiable delivery commitments.

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize concurrent programs that share hardware, engineering, and field resources.

• Capacity to drive decisions, accountability, and conflict resolution among teams without direct authority.

• Exceptional executive communication abilities, including concise written updates and confident leadership presentations.

• Solid understanding of data center network fabrics, including front-end and backend boundaries, spine/leaf concepts, Top of Rack switching, fabric layers, physical topology, and redundancy.

• Familiarity with the deployment lifecycle: design, BOM, sourcing, staging, rack and stack, cabling, provisioning, quality assurance, acceptance, and operational handoff.

• Competence in interpreting and questioning an EDP, BOM, MOP, deployment workflow, dependency map, and site-readiness package.

• Ability to discuss hardware, optics, cabling, power, space, and site dependencies with engineers without needing to perform engineering tasks.

• Experience in environments with evolving architectures, lifecycle retrofits, migrations, and first-of-a-kind deployment challenges.

• Background in hardware demand planning, BOM management, material allocation, purchase-order or pool tracking, logistics, and supply-risk mitigation.

• Aptitude for linking supply status to schedule confidence and making evidence-based allocation recommendations.

• Familiarity with project and engineering work-management tools.

• Ability to develop useful program metrics, dashboards, and automated reporting from imperfect operational data.

• Proven success in streamlining workflows, reducing manual effort, and enhancing execution through standardization or automation.

• Strong focus on data quality, source-of-truth discipline, and decision traceability.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Must reside in the US.

• Willingness to travel up to 15% for site visits, workshops, and deployment support.

• Flexibility to assist global deployments and stakeholders across different time zones.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical coverage through UHC (PPO, HSA, Surest options) / Medical coverage via Kaiser (HMO option only) for California employees only.

• Dental insurance through UHC.

• Nationwide vision coverage provided by UHC.

• Flexible Spending Account for Health & Dependent Care.

• Pre-Tax Account for Commuter Benefit/Parking & Transit (location-specific).

• Continuing Education and Professional Development through various integrated platforms, including Udemy and Coursera.

• Corporate Wellness Program provided by Goomi Group.

• Employee Assistance Program.

• Wellness Days.

• 401k Plan.

• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance.

• Short Term & Long Term Disability.

• Critical Illness, Critical Hospital, and Voluntary Accident Insurance.

• Tuition Reimbursement (available 6 months after start date, capped).

• Paid Time Off (accrued and prorated, maximum of 120 hours annually).

• Paid Holidays.

• Any other statutory leaves, paid time, or additional benefits mandated by state and federal law.