Senior Technical Program Manager

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

📋 Description

• Oversee technical program coordination across several simultaneous data center initiatives.

• Ensure alignment of sites with comprehensive plans that encompass cybersecurity verification and validation, construction, commissioning, operational readiness, and technical interdependencies.

• Manage activities across different geographic locations, sites, delivery teams, and Cybersecurity Commissioning Agents.

• Keep track of readiness, schedules, dependencies, risks, constraints, resources, budgets, and overall financial health.

• Create standardized governance and implementation processes for a portfolio spanning multiple sites.

• Facilitate coordination of cybersecurity verification and validation with construction and commissioning phases.

• Manage interdependencies among construction completion, equipment installation, controls integration, functional testing, commissioning, and cybersecurity validation.

• Set forth technical and operational readiness criteria, establishing formal readiness checkpoints prior to mobilization.

• Oversee data center controls, monitoring, operational technology, networking, and cyber-physical systems.

• Ensure effective collaboration between project delivery teams and Data Center Operations.

• Manage technical handover requirements while tracking systems, credentials, documentation, configurations, software, and technical artifacts.

• Act as the program-level coordination point for OEMs, system integrators, contractors, controls vendors, and Cybersecurity Commissioning Agents.

• Coordinate vendor availability, technical resources, documentation, access, subject matter experts, and testing support.

• Take ownership of technical readiness, covering site access, workstations, connectivity, architecture, inventories, configurations, resources, testing timelines, evidence, repositories, and workflow systems.

• Collaborate with independent Cybersecurity Commissioning Agents during execution.

• Maintain uniform verification and validation expectations, evidence requirements, acceptance criteria, and reporting across all providers.

• Monitor systemic findings and recurring issues throughout the portfolio, facilitating program-level escalation.

• Incorporate lessons learned into future design, procurement, commissioning, and operational requirements.

• Maintain RAID logs, program dashboards, RACI, readiness meetings, technical program reviews, and escalation processes.

• Promote consistent methodologies across sites while accommodating technical variations.

• No supervisory responsibilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in delivering technical programs within hyperscale, colocation, mission-critical, or similarly complex data center settings.

• Proven understanding of data center construction, commissioning, operational readiness, and handover processes.

• Demonstrated experience in major construction or infrastructure delivery programs.

• Strong grasp of construction schedules, contractor dependencies, site readiness, commissioning gates, and project controls.

• In-depth knowledge of building automation, industrial control, power management, SCADA/DCS, PLC, and associated cyber-physical systems.

• Ability to interpret controls architecture, network diagrams, system interfaces, and technical dependencies.

• Proficient understanding of TCP/IP, VLANs, routing and switching, firewalls, network segmentation, Industrial Ethernet, remote access, and IT/OT integration.

• Experience in leading or coordinating cybersecurity programs related to operational technology, industrial systems, critical infrastructure, or cyber-physical systems.

• Familiarity with cybersecurity verification, validation, assessment, risk management, remediation, and technical assurance.

• Capability to translate cybersecurity requirements into actionable engineering and commissioning tasks.

• Direct experience collaborating with commissioning organizations or programs.

• Understanding of Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT), Site Acceptance Testing (SAT), functional testing, integrated systems testing, commissioning, acceptance, turnover, and operational readiness.

• Proven ability to integrate assurance requirements within an active commissioning environment.

• Substantial experience in coordinating complex, multi-site technical programs.

• Experience managing multiple contractors, vendors, engineering organizations, and technical workstreams concurrently.

• Strong capabilities in dependency management, escalation processes, risk assessment, scheduling, and stakeholder management.

• Sufficient technical depth to engage in discussions with controls engineers, network engineers, commissioning teams, cybersecurity specialists, and data center operations staff.

• Strong understanding of construction execution, commissioning sequences, schedule pressures, project dependencies, and operational readiness milestones.

• Ability to identify cross-functional dependencies impacting cybersecurity execution.

• Capability to transform program requirements into ownership assignments, dependencies, readiness gates, timelines, escalation pathways, and measurable outcomes.

• Ability to coordinate multiple Cybersecurity Commissioning Agents and technical vendors effectively.

• Expertise in simplifying complex construction, operational technology, commissioning, cybersecurity, and vendor challenges into clear program-level decisions.

• Strong skills in root-cause analysis and technical problem-solving.

• 12+ years of relevant industry experience, including substantial exposure in data center construction/commissioning and technical infrastructure programs.

• Employee should be capable of moving independently in an industrial fabrication environment and on a standard new-build commercial or industrial construction site.

• Employee may need to lift, pull, or push up to 25 lbs (12 kg) at a time.

• Employee must be comfortable working at a desk for extended durations.

• Travel is required, up to 90% of the time.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.

• Reasonable accommodations available for individuals with disabilities.