ATC Deployment Enablement Manager Job Arvada area,Colorado USA,Manufacturing / Production

Position Summary

The Datacenter Network Engineering (DNE) Air Traffic Control (ATC) Deployment Enablement Manager is the senior program leader accountable for converting approved DNE network designs and portfolio priorities into predictable execution across a data center fleet. The role owns end-to-end delivery for front-end fabric infrastructure and assigned DNE programs, including new builds, technology modifications, retrofits, capacity expansions, and special projects. Accountability begins when scope is accepted for execution and continues through planning, material readiness, site execution, validation, operational handoff, and closeout.

This is a program leadership role first. The successful candidate will have enough technical fluency to understand data center fabric dependencies, challenge incomplete deployment packages, and lead informed conversations with engineers. The role does not configure network equipment or replace DNE's design authority. Its impact comes from creating clarity, sequencing complex work, aligning teams without direct authority, and delivering committed outcomes at fleet scale.

Why

This Role Exists

DNE deployments span engineering, hardware supply, construction, logistics, site readiness, field execution, provisioning, and operations. Without a single execution owner, design changes, material constraints, and site dependencies can surface late and create avoidable schedule risk. The DNE ATC provides one accountable program lead who connects these systems and ensures that approved network capacity is delivered safely, consistently, and on time.

Primary Scope

Front-end data center fabric deployments

New data center network builds and expansions

Technology modifications and lifecycle retrofits

DNE hardware refreshes, migrations, and decommissions within the assigned portfolio

Special DNE projects that require cross-functional delivery coordination

Portfolio road mapping, material readiness, and execution governance across multiple sites

Key Responsibilities

Portfolio Strategy and Roadmap Ownership Build, own, and drive DNE's half-over-half execution roadmap across new builds, front-end fabric projects, technology modifications, retrofits, and special initiatives. Translate approved Plan of Record and engineering priorities into an executable deployment portfolio with scope, milestones, sequencing, resource needs, and committed dates. Evaluate new demand against portfolio capacity, hardware availability, site readiness, and existing commitments. Lead prioritization and tradeoff discussions when multiple projects compete for shared hardware, engineering support, field resources, or deployment windows.

Maintain a single portfolio view of planned, committed, active, at-risk, and completed work.

Intake and Deployment Readiness Own project intake and ensure each request has a clear business objective, scope, priority, target sites, schedule, accountable engineering owner, and acceptance criteria. Validate that required execution artifacts are complete before commitment, including the Engineering Design Package (EDP), statement of work, Bill of Materials (BOM), Method of Procedure (MOP), deployment workflow, site-specific requirements, and dependency map. Confirm that space, power, cabling, facilities, logistics, and site-access requirements are identified and owned.

Establish readiness gates and refuse false-start execution when critical scope, design, material, site, or ownership inputs are missing. Document assumptions, exceptions, unresolved decisions, and the owner responsible for closing each gap.

End-to-End Deployment Delivery Own program execution from accepted intake through kickoff, material delivery, field installation, provisioning, validation, operational handoff, and closeout. Develop and maintain integrated schedules across DNE engineering, delivery engineering, Deployment, Design Engineering and Construction, site teams, logistics, sourcing, vendors, and operations. Lead kickoff calls, weekly execution reviews, milestone checks, and decision forums with clear owners, due dates, and escalation paths.

Drive stage-gate completion and ensure downstream teams receive complete, timely, and actionable handoffs. Verify that acceptance criteria, open defects, operational ownership, and residual risks are documented before closing a project.

Hardware Supply and Material Readiness Own portfolio-level visibility into DNE hardware demand, supply, allocation, and deployment need-by dates. Partner with…