Technical Program Manager, Controls, Google Data Centers
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Construction Management, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience managing the entire life-cycle of projects.
- 5 years of experience in Technical Program Management or Engineering management, specifically managing multi-disciplinary projects.
- 5 years of experience with mission-critical facilities, controls systems, vulnerability programs.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree in Engineering.
- 5 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience with retrofits in live, operational critical environments, including knowledge of change management and risk mitigation strategies.
- Technical understanding of controls systems as applied to data center operations.
- Familiarity with digital design tools and strategies, such as BIM or VDC (Virtual Design and Construction) integration.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, managing vague project requirements and organizing them into clear goals and objectives.
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.
In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing the design of Post-Facility Ready (FR) controls systems, as well as product upgrades and retrofits. This includes building matrixed design teams from internal and external design services partners, facilitating the creation of a shared plan for execution, and overseeing design services in support of construction activities. You will possess a deep understanding of mission-critical controls design, implementation and insertion workflows. You will identify, organize, and lead program activities to deliver business, operational, and technical improvements, ensuring alignment across executive cross-functional stakeholders.
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
- Identify, organize, and lead program activities to deliver business, operational, and technical improvements by scoping, phasing, and leading ambiguous cross-functional issues. Separately design and deliver optimized program communication plans, including executive and key partner communications.
- Oversee the life-cycle of controls upgrades, performing technical due diligence to evaluate engineering scope, determine milestones, and define engineering resourcing needs.
- Build trusted relationships with executive program stakeholders to proactively enable decision-making, resolve prioritization misalignments, and manage program escalations and obstacles.
- Measure and publish program and process metrics to drive consensus, leverage Continuous Improvement approaches to identify process gaps, and create automated processes to enhance velocity and monitoring.
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