Technical Program Manager, Planning, Design and Construction, 3PDC

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years of experience in program management.
• 5 years of experience working with the design and construction of facility and infrastructure projects in the data center industry or other mission critical environments or technically difficult environments.

Preferred qualifications:

• 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
• Experience managing vendor relationships.
• Knowledge of facility electrical and mechanical systems, construction and operations.
• Excellent skills in requirement gathering, resource organization, task prioritization, scheduling, and goal attainment.

About the job:

A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you’ll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish. You’ll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

As a Technical Program Manager, you will provide leadership and management to ensure the successful delivery of our growing global fleet of Data Centers.

In this role, you will work cross-functionally to manage multiple projects through the various stages of evaluation, design, contracts, construction, and handover to operations. The portfolio will include projects at greenfield sites and within operational facilities for both our smaller scale data center infrastructure deployments as well as hyper-scale data centers. You will be involved in every aspect of tactical implementation and will partner with negotiators, project managers and engineers, as well as our construction and operations teams, to develop creative and scalable solutions for the delivery of data centers that meet our operational requirements.Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities:

• Lead project planning and execution to enable capacity delivery through Third-Party developers from acquisition evaluation through to turnover to operations.
• Identify and lead the development and documentation of processes, standards, and procedures that drive programmatic improvements.
• Engage with partners and leadership to understand requirements and refine program deliverables based on business needs.
• Lead project intake, due diligence, and technical contract exhibit development to support the business approval and acquisition of data center capacity.
• Manage delivery validation process across a portfolio to ensure that construction quality standards are met and that critical closeout, commissioning, and operational documentation are collated in a timely manner.