Technical Program Manager, Data Center Network Infrastructure Construction
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Electrical Engineering, related degree, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in telecommunications, low-voltage, fiber-optics, or critical systems construction management.
- Experience managing vendor relationships and with standard practices in the design and construction industry.
- Experience working in data centers or similar mission critical environments.
- Experience in requirements gathering, resource organization, task prioritization, scheduling, and achieving objectives on schedule and within budget.
- Experience in program management in the networking area delivering infrastructure assets.
Preferred qualifications:
- RCDD, PMP, or similar industry certifications.
- OSHA certification.
- Understanding of large-scale facility electrical and mechanical systems relative to network infrastructure.
- Knowledge of fast-track design build processes.
About the job
Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
Using your technical and leadership expertise, you run Engineering-focused projects that are well-defined under supervision.
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 complex projects with numerous cross-functional teams.
- Plan requirements with internal customers and external partners to usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. Work with customers to develop project scopes, manage project schedules, identify risks and clearly communicate goals to project stakeholders.
- Work with project teams that span offices, time zones and hemispheres. Keep all the stakeholders coordinated and informed on the project's progress and schedule.
- Manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of the programs.
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