Lead Principal Data Center Fiber Deployment Engineer

Description

Lead technical program planning and cross‑functional alignment for low‑voltage infrastructure, structured cabling, fiber, and telecom programs supporting hyperscale data center buildouts. Establish the processes, decision forums, and shared information that connect installation, integration, testing, startup, and turnover milestones across teams.

This role brings structure to evolving programs while work is underway. Translate technical requirements and field experience into repeatable practices, clear ownership, and a consistent program message. Partner with engineering SMEs and delivery leaders, who retain responsibility for detailed technical approval and day‑to‑day field execution, respectively.

This role requires to work on-site at Oracle’s Data Center in Shackelford County, Texas . Relocation packages are available.

Responsibilities

• Define program objectives, priorities, and phased roadmaps with engineering, construction, network deployment, commissioning, startup, operations, and external partners; align workstreams to infrastructure and operational readiness milestones.

• Establish practical operating mechanisms: planning and review cadences, ownership matrices, decision logs, escalation paths, and standard reporting. Adapt them as requirements and program maturity evolve.

• Lead coordination across internal stakeholder teams, contractors, vendors, fiber providers, and other delivery partners; clarify responsibilities, handoffs, commitments, and unresolved interfaces without relying on direct reporting authority.

• Maintain an integrated view of dependencies across design, procurement, pathway readiness, cabling, rack deployment, testing, and turnover. Identify systemic constraints and drive accountable owners toward resolution.

• Reconcile stakeholder inputs into one evidence‑based program narrative with consistent milestones, risks, owners, and decision requests. Surface conflicting information and assumptions explicitly and confirm alignment before communicating commitments.

• Maintain program risks, issues, actions, and decisions with accountable owners and required dates. Escalate unresolved matters with technical context, options, a recommendation, and schedule or readiness impacts.

• Develop shared readiness criteria and review checkpoints for installation, integration, testing, startup, and turnover with technical SMEs and receiving teams; track evidence and exceptions against agreed criteria.

• Manage the program change process: assess proposed changes with technical and delivery owners, document tradeoffs and approval decisions, and communicate effects on scope, dependencies, milestones, and readiness.

• Turn recurring field issues and lessons learned into improved workflows, templates, documentation requirements, and corrective‑action mechanisms that reduce rework across deployment phases and sites.

• Define meaningful program metrics and maintain traceable reporting. Use trends in dependency closure, decision turnaround, readiness evidence, and repeat deficiencies to guide priorities and leadership decisions.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Act as the program coordination point connecting field realities, technical requirements, and leadership priorities; secure decisions and follow through on commitments.

• Build agreement across competing priorities, document unresolved differences, and communicate a consistent program position while preserving visibility into material risks.

Minimum Qualification

• At least 6 years of experience in technical program management, network infrastructure, telecommunications, data center infrastructure, or related mission‑critical programs.

• Demonstrated ownership of cross‑functional infrastructure programs involving multiple internal teams and external partners, including dependencies spanning installation, testing, and operational handover.

• Working technical knowledge of low‑voltage infrastructure, structured cabling, fiber systems, telecom pathways, and testing and turnover requirements sufficient to challenge assumptions and translate technical issues into program decisions.

• Experience establishing and improving processes in ambiguous, rapidly changing environments while maintaining progress against active program commitments.

• Ability to influence without direct authority, reconcile conflicting stakeholder inputs, and write clear program updates and decision recommendations for technical and leadership audiences.

Preferred Experience

• Hyperscale data center buildouts; inside and outside plant fiber; white space and rack deployment dependencies; and coordination across commissioning, startup, and operations teams.

• Creating reusable readiness reviews, change‑control processes, reporting tools, and lessons‑learned mechanisms across multiple projects or sites.

• Familiarity with owner specifications, applicable telecommunications standards, and BICSI practices; relevant technical education or program management qualifications.

• Familiarity with building management systems (BMS), electrical power monitoring systems (EPMS), and their infrastructure interfaces is helpful, but not required. Detailed controls expertise remains with the relevant specialists.

Site Engagement

• Maintain regular engagement with site delivery and technical teams to validate assumptions and understand installation, testing, and turnover conditions. Align site visits and participation in readiness reviews to program needs and critical milestones.

• Use field observations to improve program processes and cross‑team coordination; site delivery leaders retain daily contractor direction and installation execution.

Measure of Success

• Stakeholders work from a consistent program view, with clear ownership, traceable decisions, and understood commitments.

• Dependencies and readiness gaps are identified early, with timely decisions, accountable actions, and reliable milestone forecasts.

• Repeatable mechanisms improve coordination and documentation across deployment phases and sites, reducing recurring issues and avoidable rework.

• Leadership receives concise, accurate reporting that makes risks, tradeoffs, and required decisions clear; field teams find the processes useful and adopt them.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

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