Microsoft

Senior Director, Datacenter End-to-End Build Delivery

Microsoft$165K — $296K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree with 8+ years in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or related fields.
  • 3+ years of experience in people management.
  • 6+ years managing cross-functional and cross-team projects.
  • 20+ years experience is preferred for senior candidates in planning and execution across large organizations.
  • Deep expertise in engineering, procurement, construction, and systems required.

Responsibilities

  • Define and prioritize program goals across infrastructure, services, and systems focusing on risk management.
  • Provide strategic guidance and develop processes for cross-divisional program delivery.
  • Oversee project schedules, ensuring accountability and timely execution across teams.
  • Integrate best practices and tools for program management to optimize delivery.
  • Develop program management talent and ensure effective leadership in project execution.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead the construction of the largest datacenter at Microsoft.
  • Play a critical role in transforming cloud infrastructure capacity at scale.
  • Engage in a highly visible position within Cloud Operations and Innovation.
  • Contribute to projects with significant impact on customer demand, especially in AI workloads.
Full Job Description
Overview

As the Senior Director, Datacenter End-to-End Build Delivery, you will take a lead role in a group that owns the entire lifecycle of Microsoft datacenter delivery. You will guide your team through the complete program management process for building and delivering world-class datacenters-starting with design and approval through to construction, fit-out, commissioning, and handoff to operations. In this highly visible and impactful role within Cloud Operations and Innovation, you will be responsible for managing schedules, ensuring cross-functional execution, and mitigating risks for capital build programs. This is an opportunity to play a critical role in getting datacenters built, online, and ready to deliver for customers who depend on Microsoft's evolving cloud infrastructure.

Your leadership on the Datacenter end-to-end build delivery team will be pivotal as Microsoft undergoes the construction of its largest datacenter to date, increasing our ability to serve growing customer demand-especially for artificial intelligence-driven workloads. If you are passionate about driving execution and transforming cloud capacity at scale, we invite you to help shape the future of cloud infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a subject matter expert, defining and prioritizing end-to-end program goals across multiple products or functional areas such as infrastructure, services, and systems, with a focus on risk management and data-driven delivery.


  • Provide strategic guidance to cross-divisional teams and stakeholders, developing processes and operating models to ensure alignment in program delivery for complex capital programs.


  • Oversee the tracking, coordination, and communication of project schedules, ensuring accountability for dependencies, timely execution, and issue mitigation across teams.


  • Drive the integration of best practices and state-of-the-art tools for program management, including adopting automation and performance metrics to optimize build delivery.


  • Guide and develop program management talent, ensuring effective people leadership and cross-functional project execution.


Qualifications

Required/Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience.


  • 3+ years people management experience.


  • 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.


Background Check Requirements:

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:
  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Construction Management AND 20+ years experience in planning, project management, and execution across large-scale complex organizations OR equivalent experience.


  • 5+ years people management experience


  • 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects.


  • Demonstrates deep subject matter expertise on key functional areas of engineering, procurement, construction, mechanical, electrical, networking, and building automation systems.


  • Comfortable working at the Executive level within a highly matrixed organization.


  • Experience driving execution with large complex infrastructure projects.


  • Technical program management experience managing scope, schedule, budget, contracts, quality, people, risk, and communications.


  • Demonstrated leadership skills and experience working with large and diverse teams.


  • Understanding of business and financial objectives.


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Technical Program Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay

This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

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