Job Overview
Join our Data Center Design Engineering team as a DC Design Program Manager, driving operational excellence across EMEA and APAC data center builds. Partner with cross‑functional stakeholders to establish metrics, streamline processes, accelerate time‑to‑market while maintaining design quality and cost performance at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Scope & Influence
Work within and across the DCDE APAC & EMEA organisation to deliver complex, cross‑functional programmes.
Advise Sr. Managers, Directors and regional leadership on schedule health, risk posture, and cost trajectory.
Influence engineering priorities through data‑driven programme insights.
Manage the lifecycle of complex cross‑functional initiatives from concept through delivery.
Programme Reporting & Governance
Own and deliver programme‑level reporting on schedule adherence, milestone tracking, and critical‑path risk for all active APAC & EMEA builds.
Develop and maintain dashboards and mechanisms that provide leadership with real‑time visibility into design progress, blockers and decisions required.
Drive weekly/monthly programme reviews, ensuring crisp communication of status, risks, and path‑to‑green actions.
Establish reporting cadences aligned with global DE programme governance frameworks.
Goals & Initiatives Management
Support definition, tracking and reporting of organisational goals (OP1/OP2), ensuring alignment between regional initiatives and global DE strategy.
Own initiative‑level planning: scope definition, resource requirements, dependency mapping and timeline management.
Drive crisp and timely decisions across the initiative portfolio; prioritise and sequence work to maximise impact.
Identify and clear blockers; escalate effectively when cross‑organisational alignment is required.
Design Quality & Cost Performance
Partner with discipline leads (Design Management, Civil, Structural, Architectural Electrical, Mechanical, Controls) to define and track design quality metrics.
Develop mechanisms to monitor cost performance of designs against budgets, identifying variance trends and improvement opportunities.
Work with Finance and Estimating partners to drive meaningful cost and efficiency benchmarks across the portfolio.
Drive root‑cause analysis when quality or cost targets are missed; ensure corrective actions are tracked to completion.
Stakeholder Engagement & Metrics
Work hand‑in‑hand with stakeholders (Construction, Commissioning, CRE, GES, Finance) to define meaningful, actionable metrics.
Build consensus across teams on metric definitions, data sources, and reporting standards.
Translate complex programme data into clear narratives for leadership consumption.
Represent DCDE APAC & EMEA in cross‑functional programme forums and global alignment discussions.
Programme Acceleration
Identify and drive programme acceleration opportunities — removing unnecessary process, streamlining handoffs, and eliminating waste.
Proactively surface schedule compression opportunities through parallel‑path strategies and early constraint resolution.
Develop and implement mechanisms that increase speed of delivery without compromising design quality or safety standards.
Benchmark delivery timelines and drive continuous improvement against prior builds.
Basic Qualifications
Experience in technical product or program management
Experience working directly with engineering teams
Experience in technical program management working directly with software engineering teams
Experience managing programs across cross‑functional teams, building processes and coordinating release schedules
Experience working with Data & AI related technologies, including, but not limited to, AI/ML, GenAI, Analytics, Database, and/or Storage
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in project management disciplines including scope, schedule, budget, quality, along with risk and critical path management
Experience managing projects across cross‑functional teams, building sustainable processes and coordinating release schedules
Experience defining KPI's/SLA's used to drive multi‑million dollar businesses and reporting to senior leadership
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