Program Manager, Data Center & HPC Infrastructure Delivery

Program Manager, Data Center & HPC Infrastructure Delivery

Employment Type: Direct Hire

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Reports to: SVP, Infrastructure Programs

Our client is seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead the coordinated delivery of a large-scale, multi-year data center and high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure program.

This individual will oversee the integrated program plan across design, engineering, construction, power, cooling, procurement, commissioning, and HPC infrastructure deployment. The role will connect facility delivery with compute, storage, networking, and platform readiness, ensuring all work streams align with program milestones and operational requirements.

Individual Project Managers, engineering leaders, contractors, and functional teams will own specific scopes. The Program Manager will provide program-level oversight across schedule, budget, dependencies, risks, and delivery commitments, driving coordination from initial planning through operational turnover.

This hybrid position requires regular in-person collaboration in Dallas with executive leadership and engineering, construction, infrastructure, and operations teams.

• Oversee end-to-end program delivery from planning and design through construction, infrastructure deployment, commissioning, and operational readiness.
• Develop and maintain an integrated master program plan spanning facility development and HPC infrastructure work streams.
• Track program schedules, capital budgets, forecasts, milestones, quality, risks, and delivery performance.
• Align individual project plans with overall program objectives, phased capacity requirements, and business commitments.
• Establish consistent governance, reporting, milestone reviews, escalation processes, and accountability.
• Maintain risk, assumption, issue, and dependency logs, along with change control and decision tracking.
• Identify critical-path issues, resource constraints, and schedule conflicts; drive mitigation and recovery plans.

• Coordinate dependencies across utility power, on-site generation, electrical distribution, cooling, controls, compute, storage, and networking.
• Integrate HPC deployment milestones into the overall facility construction and commissioning schedule.
• Align GPU and CPU hardware delivery, rack installation, high-speed network connectivity, storage deployment, and platform readiness with available power, cooling, and floor space.
• Partner with technical leaders to track readiness for cluster installation, configuration, validation, and production handoff.
• Coordinate high-density infrastructure requirements, including liquid cooling, rack power, network fabrics, and supporting mechanical systems.
• Manage sequencing between facility turnover, equipment installation, infrastructure testing, and workload readiness.
• Track dependencies across hardware vendors, infrastructure teams, platform engineering, and operations.

• Serve as the central coordination point across engineering, construction, procurement, supply chain, finance, technology, commissioning, and operations.
• Provide program-level oversight across Project Managers responsible for individual projects, phases, and infrastructure work streams.
• Integrate project schedules and resolve issues that extend across multiple teams or scopes.
• Align design completion, procurement, installation, testing, commissioning, and turnover activities.
• Coordinate long-lead equipment, material availability, vendor capacity, and supply chain risks.
• Partner with finance on capital planning, expenditure tracking, forecasting, and budget reporting.
• Coordinate with utility providers, permitting authorities, municipalities, and other external stakeholders as required.

• Monitor program commitments across general contractors, specialty contractors, engineering partners, equipment manufacturers, technology vendors, and commissioning providers.
• Track performance against contractual milestones, schedules, quality requirements, and delivery expectations.
• Identify vendor risks affecting construction progress, HPC deployment, commissioning, or operational readiness.
• Ensure external partners understand program priorities, sequencing, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Drive resolution of delivery gaps with internal workstream owners and external partners.

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