[Hiring] Data Center Program Manager @Delan Associates

Role Description

The PMO is responsible for managing an overall budget and making resource, project, and technical planning recommendations. The primary focus is on the coordination of major Data Center initiatives, including:

• Coordination of 5 major Data Center initiatives: 2 DC expansions and 3 major co-location site deployments and associated site consolidations.
• Data center consultant to provide leadership, advisory, and deployment planning and oversight of the Siemens data center initiative.
• Support activities include:
• Program management of data center initiatives, including maintaining a milestone schedule of DC deployments and consolidation activities.
• Assisting in communication between Siemens data center stakeholders, team members, core technology vendors, and management.
• Identifying gaps, risks, blockers, needed escalations, and driving committed schedules of the data center initiatives.
• Oversight of data center physical and technical infrastructure deployment and vendor management.
• Conducting data center workload assessments.
• Site planning for data center space, physical infrastructure, power, and cooling.
• Continued development of data center deployment strategies based on Siemens requirements.
• Evaluation and sourcing of co-location services.
• Migration planning.
• General project management support activities throughout the program include:
• Participating in regular meetings with Siemens management to review project status.
• Facilitating and participating in planning and deployment meetings with core data center team members.
• Ensuring development and maintenance of data center program milestone plans, including critical path, equipment provisioning, deployment, and migration.
• Providing program reporting, status, charts, dashboards, and senior management reporting.
• Key initiatives include:
• Detroit area DC deployment (co-lo) and migration from legacy DC.
• Expansion of existing Ireland data center.
• India DC deployment (co-lo) and migration from legacy DC.
• CA Regional engineering campus consolidation.
• Consolidation of ~20 global engineering lab sites into regional data centers.
• Expansion of existing Oregon data center.
• Deployment of a US West data center (colo).

Qualifications

• Strong technical PM background.
• Understanding of tasks required to deliver multiple IT infrastructure projects and initiatives including network, platform, and storage infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts and details to project team and management.
• Working understanding of inter-dependencies between technical tasks.

Requirements

• Develop and manage migration project schedules, budgets, resources, change requests, escalation, and risk assessment.
• Execution of project communication plan.
• Ensure communication of migration methodologies, concepts, and details to project team and management.
• Work within a Program Office structure closely with a Director of PMO, Operations and Infrastructure managers, technology integrators, and IT team members.
• Maintain appropriate/optimal engagement of delivery resources.
• Develop high-level and detailed project plans.
• Ensure scope and approach are understood by all project team members and stakeholders.
• Produce project status reporting.
• Direct and monitor work effort regularly.
• Identify and track key project milestones and measurement reporting (base-lining, critical path).
• Monitor and communicate progress of project delivery, including status reporting of cost, schedule, and assessment of risks/issues.
• Negotiate and influence cross-functional teams to ensure appropriate resourcing levels are engaged and maintained throughout the project life cycle.
• Manage project expectations with team members and other stakeholders.
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team.