Senior Engineering Director

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

📋 Description

• Manage the complete delivery process for the Data Center practice, overseeing personnel, processes, partner resources, and performance metrics to ensure consistent, high-quality results.

• Act as the main executive escalation contact for critical delivery risks, project challenges, and significant customer situations that require senior-level intervention.

• Collaborate with Sales and Solutions Architecture teams to ensure offerings are market-ready, correctly scoped, and executable at an enterprise scale before signing.

• Ensure all projects adhere to commitments regarding timelines, budgets, and quality standards through strict resource alignment, partner strategy, and enforcement of delivery standards.

• Develop scalable, repeatable delivery frameworks for large-scale data center deployments, colocation facility constructions, and multi-site national infrastructure rollouts.

• Define and maintain service delivery standards for physical infrastructure, including structured cabling (copper and fiber optic), hardware installation, rack configuration and labeling, and physical layer testing and certification.

• Maintain delivery readiness post-signature by proactively managing resource capacity, partner engagement, and subcontractor performance.

• Collaborate with GTM teams to define service offerings, branding strategies, and industry positioning that enhance practice growth and market presence.

• Partner with clients to develop strategic infrastructure roadmaps spanning a 3–10-year horizon, creating scalable, resilient environments aligned with contemporary data workflows.

• Conduct facility assessments and due diligence on data center sites to facilitate informed decisions on infrastructure investments and developments.

• Work alongside peer practice areas — including Advisory, Cloud Migration, Intelligent Ops, and Managed Services — to ensure cohesive, integrated solution delivery.

• Build and sustain strategic relationships with key technology partners: Dell, Cisco, Pure Storage, NetApp, Vast Data, Rubrik, Cohesity, and NVIDIA.

• Supervise the delivery of enterprise compute solutions which include server platforms, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), and virtualization from Dell and Cisco.

• Direct the design and deployment of both on-premises and hybrid infrastructure architectures, ensuring seamless connectivity and workload mobility between on-prem data centers and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).

• Guide technical teams in sizing, configuring, and deploying leading platforms including Dell PowerEdge/PowerFlex, Cisco UCS/HyperFlex, Pure Storage FlashArray/FlashBlade, NetApp ONTAP, and Vast Data Universal Storage.

• Lead the delivery of NVIDIA-based AI infrastructure solutions, encompassing DGX systems, HGX platforms, AI Enterprise software stack, and networking (InfiniBand, NVLink, Spectrum-X Ethernet).

• Oversee the design and deployment of AI-ready data centers engineered for next-generation workloads, addressing challenges such as extreme power density, advanced cooling (liquid, direct-to-chip), high-performance interconnects, and dense GPU/accelerator layouts.

• Ensure delivery teams receive training and certification on NVIDIA AI platforms, enabling them to execute at scale for enterprise and hyperscale customers.

• Drive the delivery of data protection solutions that cover backup, recovery, ransomware resilience, and disaster recovery to ensure high availability and rapid incident response for customers.

• Oversee the deployment and configuration of enterprise data protection platforms such as Rubrik Security Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect, and related backup/recovery solutions.

• Ensure delivery teams can implement and validate data protection architectures across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

• Conduct or oversee data protection impact assessments (DPIAs), audits, and risk mitigation reviews during solution delivery and handover.

• Serve as the acknowledged technical authority on Data Center technologies, providing guidance to customers, prospects, and internal teams on best practices and architectural standards for delivery.

• Provide engineering leadership and quality review to ensure appropriate scoping, resource utilization, and technical accuracy across all delivery engagements.

• Support laboratory environments, proof-of-concept initiatives, Bill of Materials (BOM) creation, and standardized Statement of Work (SOW) development.

• Contribute to RFP/RFI responses, proposals, and solution documentation to bolster pre-sales efforts.

• Present practice capabilities and deliver technology education to account teams as new platforms and market opportunities arise.

• Lead and scale a delivery organization comprising Practice Leads, Project Engineers, Implementation Specialists/Technicians, and partner/subcontractor resources.

• Define role clarity, establish career progression pathways, and set clear performance expectations across all levels of the organization.

• Build leadership capabilities within the practice to ensure long-term sustainability, growth, and readiness for succession.

• Foster an organizational culture focused on accountability, workplace safety, quality excellence, and continuous improvement.

• Provide ongoing coaching, mentorship, and professional development for engineering and technical staff.

• Establish clear autonomy frameworks that prevent micromanagement while ensuring accountability and predictable delivery outcomes.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent professional/military experience.

• At least 10 years of progressive experience in data center solutions, with a minimum of 5 years in a senior leadership or director-level delivery role overseeing large-scale IT systems and services.

• 5–7 years of experience in service delivery management and developing a project management function.

• Proven success in driving complex, multi-disciplinary IT projects from inception to delivery.

• Experience managing substantial delivery budgets and intricate programs, balancing competing priorities while ensuring timely and budget-compliant execution.

• Strong technical background in data center infrastructure, including compute, storage, data protection, and hybrid cloud connectivity architectures.

• Practical delivery experience with key manufacturer platforms: Dell (PowerEdge, PowerFlex, PowerStore), Cisco (UCS, HyperFlex, Nexus), Pure Storage (FlashArray, FlashBlade), NetApp (ONTAP, StorageGRID), Vast Data Universal Storage.

• Demonstrated experience delivering data protection and cyber resilience solutions: Rubrik Security Cloud, Cohesity DataProtect, and/or equivalent backup/recovery platforms.

• Hands-on experience delivering NVIDIA AI infrastructure, including DGX/HGX systems, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, and high-performance GPU networking (InfiniBand, NVLink, Spectrum-X).

• Direct experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP) and hybrid connectivity patterns.

• Proficiency in advanced switching architectures, network segmentation, and data center fabric design.

• Familiarity with cybersecurity risk management and relevant compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS) as they relate to infrastructure delivery.

• Proven capability to lead executive-level presentations, solution demonstrations, and whiteboard sessions for CIO/CTO/VP-level audiences.

• Experience in reviewing and authoring Statements of Work (SOW) and Bills of Materials (BOM) for data center, storage, and AI infrastructure solutions.

• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight while driving collaborative outcomes with teams and partners.

• Strong executive presence with the capacity to influence internally across sales, solutions, and delivery organizations, as well as externally with strategic partners and customers.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• Competitive salary

• Professional development opportunities

• Remote work options