Technical Program Manager, Lambda

• 10+ years of experience in data center delivery, infrastructure program management, construction program management, technical program management, mission-critical facilities, industrial construction, or large capital project delivery
• Experience managing delivery programs for ground-up data centers, mission-critical facilities, cloud infrastructure, industrial facilities, semiconductor facilities, energy infrastructure, or large technical campuses
• Strong understanding of the data center delivery lifecycle, including site handoff, permitting, engineering design, plan sets, utilities, procurement, construction, MEP systems, controls, commissioning, inspections, and operations turnover
• Experience coordinating across engineering, construction management, commissioning, operations, utilities, procurement, permitting, security, finance, and external partners
• Ability to manage integrated schedules, critical path risks, dependency logs, decision trackers, change control, and executive reporting
• Ability to understand technical tradeoffs well enough to identify risks, ask precise questions, and escalate effectively without owning technical design authority
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to operate independently in fast-moving, capital-intensive environments

Desirable

• We are seeking a Principal Technical Program Manager to own program management for the physical plant infrastructure delivery of new data center builds
• This role begins after the Real Estate and Site Selection team has selected or acquired a site and continues through construction completion, commissioning coordination, operational readiness, and handoff to the Network Deployment team
• This role manages the integrated schedule and cross-functional coordination across engineering, construction management, permitting, utilities, procurement, commissioning, operations readiness, security, finance, and external partners
• The scope includes site work, utilities, shell, mechanical systems, electrical systems, controls, white space physical readiness, inspections, commissioning status, and turnover readiness
• This role does not own engineering design authority, construction means and methods, GC management authority, real estate acquisition, or steady-state operations
• Engineering owns technical criteria and design
• Construction Management owns the physical build oversight through the GC
• Commissioning owns independent test and acceptance
• Operations owns the site after turnover
• This TPM owns the integrated delivery plan, schedule visibility, dependency tracking, issue escalation, and cross-functional alignment required to deliver the site
• Own the integrated program schedule for a new data center build from post-site-selection handoff through handoff to Network Deployment
• Coordinate the sequence from rack requirements to engineering criteria, engineering design, engineering plan set, permit submission, permit approval, construction, commissioning, and turnover readiness
• Track milestones across site readiness, permitting, utility delivery, design completion, plan set completion, procurement dependencies, site work, shell, MEP systems, controls, white space physical readiness, inspections, commissioning, and operational handoff
• Coordinate with Real Estate and Site Selection after site selection to confirm assumptions, constraints, utility commitments, fiber availability, land conditions, permit path, and delivery risks
• Partner with Engineering to ensure rack, power, cooling, controls, resiliency, security, and operational requirements are reflected in the design package and plan set
• Partner with Construction Management to track construction milestones, GC schedule, material availability, field progress, inspection status, and construction risks
• Partner with Commissioning to track test plans, commissioning schedule, issue resolution, acceptance criteria, and readiness for operations turnover
• Partner with Operations to track staffing readiness, procedures, documentation, training, monitoring readiness, access readiness, and turnover requirements
• Maintain site-level risk registers, dependency logs, decision trackers, milestone trackers, schedule variance reports, and executive status updates
• Identify risks that could affect delivery dates, including permitting delays, utility delays, design changes, procurement constraints, construction sequencing issues, commissioning failures, inspection delays, or unresolved decisions
• Escalate issues with specific facts, including current status, baseline date, forecast date, variance to plan, impact, owner, mitigation options, and required decision date
• Ensure the physical plant is ready for Network Deployment, including white space readiness, power availability, cooling readiness, controls readiness, cable pathways, security access, operational access, and turnover documentation
• Support schedule recovery planning when site, permit, utility, design, procurement, construction, commissioning, or operations readiness milestones slip
• This role owns:
• Site-level infrastructure delivery program management
• Integrated schedule from site selection handoff to handoff to Network Deployment
• Cross-functional coordination across Engineering, CM, Commissioning, Operations, Utilities, Procurement, Security, Finance, and external partners
• Milestone tracking for design, permits, construction, commissioning, and turnover readiness
• Risk, issue, dependency, and decision tracking
• Schedule variance reporting
• Escalation preparation
• Readiness tracking for Network Deployment handoff
• This role partners with, but does not independently own:
• Site selection or real estate acquisition
• Engineering criteria or design authority
• Plan set technical approval
• Construction means and methods
• Direct GC management
• Commissioning authority
• Procurement commercial strategy
• Network deployment execution
• Services deployment execution
• Steady-state data center operations
• Success Measures:
• The assigned site reaches infrastructure turnover on the committed timeline
• Engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, procurement, and utility milestones are visible and accurately tracked
• Critical path risks are identified early and escalated with clear owner, impact, and mitigation options
• The site is handed off to Network Deployment with defined readiness criteria completed
• Schedule variance, risk exposure, and decision requirements are clearly communicated to leadership
• No major handoff gaps exist between physical plant delivery, networking, services, and operations