Sr. Director, Data Center Design & Product Engineering - OCI Data Center Infrastructure
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Job Description
Job Description
This organization will be responsible for developing OCI's standardized data center design
platforms, creating engineering standards and reference architectures, driving design innovation,
and ensuring designs are optimized for constructability, scalability, manufacturability,
operational excellence, and total lifecycle cost. The role will establish engineering ownership
across the entire design lifecycle-from concept development and requirements definition
through detailed engineering, design validation, deployment support, and continuous design
improvement.
In partnership with OEMs and strategic suppliers, this leader will also define OCI's modular
infrastructure strategy, drive off-site manufacturing and assembly initiatives, influence
technology roadmaps and product selection, and help shape next-generation infrastructure
solutions that accelerate deployment while improving quality and consistency across OCI's
global fleet.
The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in mission-critical facility design, MEP
engineering, and hyperscale infrastructure with proven success building engineering
organizations, driving technical strategy, and influencing complex supplier ecosystems.
Responsibilities
Design Engineering Leadership
- Own the engineering development of OCI's standardized data center design platforms and
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- Establish design standards, engineering specifications, reference architectures, and reusable design templates that enable global deployment at hyperscale.
- Lead engineering decisions across mechanical, electrical, plumbing, controls, and integrated infrastructure systems.
- Drive continuous improvements in design quality, constructability, operability, maintainability, energy efficiency, and lifecycle performance.
- Develop engineering methodologies that balance innovation with standardization while supporting regional deployment requirements.
- Lead technical design reviews and engineering governance across all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle.
- Partner with Architecture, Capacity Delivery, Construction, and Operations to ensure engineering solutions meet deployment, operational, and long-term business objectives.
- Establish ownership of engineering change management and continuous improvement using lessons learned from construction and operational performance.
- Develop strategic engineering partnerships with OEMs to influence future product roadmaps and technology development.
- Partner with suppliers to co-develop infrastructure solutions aligned with OCI's long-term engineering strategy.
- Influence product selection based on technical capability, scalability, manufacturability, lifecycle performance, and deployment efficiency.
- Drive engineering engagement throughout supplier design, validation, qualification, and change management processes.
- Ensure OEM innovation aligns with OCI's standardized infrastructure platforms and future capacity requirements.
- Develop OCI's engineering strategy for modular infrastructure and industrialized construction.
- Define standardized modular building blocks across mechanical, electrical, and integrated infrastructure systems.
- Drive Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Assembly (DFA), and Design for
- Partner with OEMs and manufacturing partners to maximize factory integration, reduce field labor, and improve deployment speed.
- Lead engineering initiatives that enable repeatable, scalable, factory-built infrastructure solutions across OCI's global portfolio.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Partner closely with Infrastructure Engineering, Capacity Delivery, Construction, Supply
- Provide executive leadership on engineering strategy, technology roadmaps, design decisions, and infrastructure standardization.
- Drive alignment between engineering, construction, manufacturing, and operations to continuously improve OCI's infrastructure platform.
- Represent engineering in executive reviews, supplier engagements, and strategic planning activities.
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: $182,000 to $414,400 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
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position.
Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year.
Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - M5
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