Senior Director, Data Center Facilities Development

** Job Description*
* The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Data Center Development organization leads the planning, design, and delivery of the next generation of Oracle's global data center portfolio. We are seeking a Senior Director of Data Center Development to provide strategic leadership and organizational oversight for the design of mission-critical infrastructure across OCI's rapidly expanding global footprint.

This role is responsible for establishing and executing OCI's data center design strategy across a portfolio of large-scale, highly complex developments. The Senior Director will lead a team of design management professionals and provide executive-level oversight of multidisciplinary design activities spanning architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, controls, and mission-critical infrastructure systems.

The position requires a combination of organizational leadership, technical depth, design governance, and portfolio management. The successful candidate will establish clear design requirements, drive consistency across projects and delivery partners, manage technical risk, and ensure that OCI's facilities meet established requirements for performance, reliability, resiliency, scalability, constructability, and operational readiness.

The Senior Director will serve as a senior technical and organizational leader within OCI Data Center Development, partnering closely with Construction, Engineering, Operations, Network, Capacity Planning, Energy, Security, and other internal organizations. The role will also provide senior-level direction to colocation partners, architects, engineers, consultants, contractors, and other external stakeholders responsible for delivering OCI

** Responsibilities*
* ** Responsibilities:*
* - Lead the Data Center Design Management function for an assigned global or multi-region portfolio of hyperscale and mission-critical infrastructure projects.

- Establish organizational priorities, expectations, governance processes, and performance standards for the design management team.

- Lead, develop, and mentor design managers and design leadership personnel, establishing clear accountability for project execution, technical quality, and professional development.

- Provide portfolio-level oversight of multidisciplinary data center design across architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing, controls, life safety, and supporting infrastructure systems.

- Establish and maintain design governance throughout the project lifecycle, from early planning and Basis of Design development through schematic design, design development, construction documentation, construction support, commissioning, and record documentation.

- Ensure projects maintain alignment with OCI technical requirements, design standards, operational requirements, reliability objectives, and infrastructure strategies.

- Provide senior technical leadership for high-density compute environments, including mechanical systems, liquid cooling, electrical infrastructure, controls, and other mission-critical systems supporting next-generation cloud and AI infrastructure.

- Drive consistent implementation and continuous improvement of OCI global data center design standards, specifications, design criteria, and best practices.

- Establish effective design review, technical approval, change management, and decision-making processes across the portfolio.

- Identify systemic and project-specific design risks and ensure appropriate mitigation, escalation, and resolution before those risks impact construction, schedule, cost, reliability, or operations.

- Lead resolution of complex multidisciplinary technical issues requiring coordination across internal organizations, design consultants, construction teams, operators, and external delivery partners.

- Partner with Construction, Engineering, Operations, Network, Capacity Planning, Energy, Security, and other OCI organizations to ensure infrastructure requirements are coordinated and incorporated into project designs.

- Provide senior-level oversight of architects, engineers, consultants, colocation providers, and other design partners responsible for delivering OCI infrastructure.

- Establish expectations for consultant scope, performance, technical quality, schedule adherence, and design deliverables.

- Ensure Basis of Design, SD, DD, permit, IFC, and record design packages meet OCI requirements and are appropriately reviewed and approved.

- Drive standardization and…