Data Center Program Manager
Posted 1 week ago by ENIN SYSTEMS INC
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Remote
Summary: The Data Center Program Manager will oversee complex data center infrastructure initiatives for enterprise clients, requiring extensive experience in managing large-scale programs and cross-functional teams. The role emphasizes leadership, stakeholder management, and the execution of infrastructure modernization and migration projects. The ideal candidate will be adept at coordinating various technical and business stakeholders to ensure successful program delivery. Strong communication and program management skills are essential for this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale data center infrastructure programs and strategic initiatives.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects involving data center consolidation, migration, modernization, expansion, and cloud integration.
- Develop and maintain program roadmaps, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and risk management strategies.
- Coordinate with engineering, infrastructure, networking, security, cloud, facilities, vendors, and business stakeholders.
- Drive governance meetings, executive status reporting, issue resolution, and program communications.
- Ensure successful implementation of servers, storage, networking, virtualization, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Oversee vendor relationships, procurement activities, contract management, and delivery milestones.
- Monitor program KPIs, financials, resource utilization, and project health.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans while ensuring timely delivery.
- Support change management, release planning, and operational readiness.
- Ensure compliance with organizational standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with executive leadership to align infrastructure initiatives with business objectives.
Key Skills:
- Program Management
- Data Center Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Modernization
- Data Center Migration
- Cloud Transformation
- VMware
- Networking
- Storage
- Servers
- Disaster Recovery
- Vendor Management
- Risk Management
- Budget Management
- Executive Reporting
- Stakeholder Management
- Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
Salary (Rate): £90,000 yearly
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Data Center Program Manager
Introduction
We are seeking an experienced Data Center Program Manager to lead complex data center infrastructure initiatives for enterprise clients. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in managing large-scale data center programs, coordinating cross-functional teams, and delivering infrastructure modernization, migration, deployment, and operational excellence initiatives. This role requires exceptional leadership, stakeholder management, and program execution skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end delivery of large-scale data center infrastructure programs and strategic initiatives.
- Manage multiple concurrent projects involving data center consolidation, migration, modernization, expansion, and cloud integration.
- Develop and maintain program roadmaps, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and risk management strategies.
- Coordinate with engineering, infrastructure, networking, security, cloud, facilities, vendors, and business stakeholders.
- Drive governance meetings, executive status reporting, issue resolution, and program communications.
- Ensure successful implementation of servers, storage, networking, virtualization, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Oversee vendor relationships, procurement activities, contract management, and delivery milestones.
- Monitor program KPIs, financials, resource utilization, and project health.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans while ensuring timely delivery.
- Support change management, release planning, and operational readiness.
- Ensure compliance with organizational standards, security policies, and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with executive leadership to align infrastructure initiatives with business objectives.
Requirements
<>Required Qualifications- Bachelor''''''''s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- 10+ years of IT Infrastructure or Data Center experience.
- 7+ years of Program or Project Management experience leading enterprise infrastructure initiatives.
- Strong understanding of:
- Data Center Infrastructure
- Servers (Dell, HPE, Cisco UCS)
- Storage (NetApp, EMC, Pure Storage)
- Networking (Cisco, Arista, Juniper)
- Virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V)
- Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
- Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
- Experience managing infrastructure migrations, data center relocations, refresh programs, or cloud transformation projects.
- Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Experience managing budgets, forecasts, vendors, and project financials.
- Strong knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid delivery methodologies.
- PMP or PgMP Certification
- Agile/Scrum Certification
- ITIL Foundation Certification
- Experience working with enterprise clients and global delivery teams.
- Knowledge of automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and DevOps practices is a plus.
Skills
- Program Management
- Data Center Infrastructure
- Infrastructure Modernization
- Data Center Migration
- Cloud Transformation
- VMware
- Networking
- Storage
- Servers
- Disaster Recovery
- Vendor Management
- Risk Management
- Budget Management
- Executive Reporting
- Stakeholder Management
- Agile & Waterfall Methodologies
Nice to Have
- Kubernetes/OpenShift
- Cisco ACI
- Software Defined Data Center (SDDC)
- Azure Stack HCI
- Terraform or Ansible
- ServiceNow
- Power BI