Senior Technical Program Manager

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

📋 Description

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

• Ensure alignment of sites with integrated program strategies that encompass cybersecurity verification and validation, construction, commissioning, operational readiness, and technical dependencies.

• Manage activities across various geographic regions, sites, delivery teams, and Cybersecurity Commissioning Agents.

• Maintain oversight of site readiness, schedules, dependencies, risks, constraints, technical resources, budgets, and financial health.

• Take ownership of program and site-level prerequisites, developing scalable governance and execution processes.

• Allocate work among cybersecurity assurance vendors.

• Integrate cybersecurity verification and validation into the data center construction and commissioning lifecycle.

• Coordinate dependencies among the completion of construction, installation of equipment, integration of controls, functional testing, commissioning, and cybersecurity validation.

• Establish criteria for technical and operational readiness to prevent premature mobilization.

• Manage cybersecurity activities related to critical project milestones.

• Provide technical coordination across various systems including BMS, PMS, SCADA, DCS, PLCs, RTUs, gateways, meters, relays, IEDs, EPMS, environmental/mechanical controls, industrial networks, engineering workstations, servers, applications, and communications infrastructure.

• Facilitate coordination between project delivery teams and Data Center Operations, supporting technical handover.

• Monitor ownership of 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 Agent organizations.

• Coordinate vendor availability, engineering software, documentation, configurations, credentials, access, technical SMEs, and testing support.

• Ensure technical readiness regarding site access, workstations, network connectivity, system access, documentation, architectures, inventories, OEM resources, testing windows, evidence collection, repositories, and workflow systems.

• Implement a formal readiness gate prior to site mobilization.

• Collaborate with independent Cybersecurity Commissioning Agents and translate program objectives into site-level technical tasks.

• Maintain consistent verification and validation expectations, evidence requirements, acceptance criteria, and reporting across different providers.

• Coordinate testing processes involving OT devices, controls platforms, industrial networks, applications, and supporting infrastructure.

• Track systemic findings and recurring portfolio issues, facilitating program-level escalations.

• Maintain RAID logs, program dashboards, RACI, readiness meetings, technical reviews, and governance reporting.

• Promote consistent methodologies across sites while accommodating legitimate technical differences.

• Travel may be required up to 90% of the time.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 12 years of relevant industry experience, with substantial expertise in data center construction/commissioning and technical infrastructure programs.

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

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

• Demonstrated experience in major construction or infrastructure delivery programs.

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

• Proficient understanding of building automation, industrial control, power management, SCADA/DCS, PLC, and related cyber-physical systems.

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

• Familiarity with 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 OT, industrial systems, critical infrastructure, or cyber-physical systems.

• Knowledge of cybersecurity verification, validation, assessment, risk management, remediation, and technical assurance.

• Capable of translating cybersecurity requirements into actionable engineering and commissioning tasks.

• Direct experience working with commissioning organizations or programs.

• Understanding of FAT, SAT, functional testing, integrated systems testing, commissioning, acceptance, turnover, and operational readiness.

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

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

• Ability to manage multiple contractors, vendors, engineering organizations, and technical workstreams simultaneously.

• Strong skills in dependency, escalation, risk, schedule, and stakeholder management.

• Capacity to lead technical discussions with controls engineers, network engineers, commissioning teams, cybersecurity specialists, and data center operations personnel.

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

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

• Preferred: Degree in Electrical, Controls, Automation, Mechanical, Network, Computer, Systems, or related engineering fields.

• Preferred: PMP or PgMP certification.

• Preferred: Commissioning credentials such as CxA, CCP, CBCP, or equivalent experience.

• Preferred: CISSP, GICSP, IEC 62443, or comparable cybersecurity certification.

• Preferred: Experience with controls ecosystems from Schneider Electric, Siemens, Rockwell Automation, ABB, Honeywell, Johnson Controls, or similar OEMs.

• Preferred: Experience with mission-critical electrical and mechanical infrastructure.

• Preferred: Experience coordinating third-party testing, assurance, validation, inspection, or commissioning organizations.

• Preferred: Experience supporting global programs across multiple regions and delivery organizations.

• Ability to navigate independently in an industrial fabrication environment and on a new-build commercial or industrial construction site.

• Physical capability to lift/pull/push up to 25 lbs (12 kg) as needed.

• Comfort with extended periods of desk work.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Commitment to equal opportunity employment.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.

• Travel opportunities, with travel required up to 90%.