Lease Delivery Program Manager

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Lead leased datacenter delivery programmes across multiple projects, tranches, or sites.
• Coordinate construction, engineering, technical infrastructure, commissioning, safety, commercial, project controls, and operational readiness workstreams.
• Own programme governance, reporting, escalation, risk management, and dependency management.
• Act as the senior delivery interface with lease providers, contractors, consultants, and internal Engineering, End to End, Commissioning, Safety, Operations, Commercial, Legal, Procurement, Security, and Network teams.
• Deliver Ready for Service, Ready for Network Install, commissioning, fit-out completion, and turnover milestones.
• Support commercial and contractual governance, change control, delivery decisions, and issue resolution.
• Promote safety in programme decisions and manage a team of external owner representatives.
• Align regional capacity goals with business OKRs and track metrics for milestone, cost, and other OKR improvements.
• Provide construction and fit-out expertise during lease site selection.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, construction management, or equivalent engineering science; alternatively, 7 or more years of related construction management experience in lieu of a degree.
• At least 5 years of recent construction management experience on large, complex projects involving large-scale mechanical, electrical, or plumbing plants.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and deadlines simultaneously and independently manage deadlines and support staff.
• Ability to influence cross-discipline teams.
• Construction health and safety knowledge.
• Must be able to meet Microsoft, customer, and/or government security screening requirements.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience in datacenter, cloud infrastructure, telecoms, energy, construction, or mission-critical environments.
• Experience with lease providers, developers, landlords, consultants, contractors, or outsourced delivery models.
• Understanding of commissioning, operational readiness, handover, project controls, change control, and commercial governance.
• Ability to operate amid ambiguity, create structure, build trust, and maintain delivery momentum across complex stakeholder environments.

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