Senior Project Manager - Data Centers

About This Role

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At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible. Job Description:

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Project Manager - Data Centers to join our team! In this role you will get to lead, govern, and deliver a large‑scale, mission‑critical data center campus.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Serve as the overall lead for the PMC, with accountability for safety, schedule, cost, quality, and delivery outcomes across all project phases
• Act as the primary senior interface with the Employer, leading governance forums, escalation processes, and strategic decision‑making.

Establish and implement a disciplined project governance framework, including reporting cadence, controls, dashboards, and decision logs.

• Lead and integrate a multi‑disciplinary PMC team (construction, technical, commercial, planning, HSE, commissioning), ensuring clarity of roles and accountability.
• Oversee the development and execution of the Project Execution Plan, ensuring alignment with Employer standards, global design requirements, and RFS commitments.
• Manage programme certainty, ensuring early identification of risks, protected commissioning milestones, and timely escalation of schedule threats with recovery strategies.
• Provide senior oversight of FIDIC contract administration, ensuring fair, impartial determinations while safeguarding the Employer’s commercial and risk position.
• Ensure HSE leadership is embedded across all stakeholders, championing a zero‑harm culture where no commercial or schedule pressure compromises safety.
• Drive a quality‑first delivery approach, ensuring QAQC processes support long‑term operational reliability, maintainability, and performance.

Lead coordination with the Engineer of Record (EoR) and Commissioning Agent, maintaining single‑point accountability for integration, readiness, and handover.

What Required Skills You'll Bring:

• Proven experience leading large, complex PMC or PMO assignments for mission‑critical infrastructure projects, within the data center sector.
• Strong capability in programme governance, risk management, and senior stakeholder engagement.
• Demonstrated experience operating under FIDIC contracts, exercising independent and defensible professional judgment.
• Ability to manage multi‑package delivery environments with numerous consultants, contractors, and specialist vendors.
• Track record of maintaining delivery certainty under high commercial, operational, and schedule pressure.

What Desired Skills You'll Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years’ experience in Data Centre (DC) with relevant experience, education and trainings.
• Experience delivering hyperscale or enterprise data center campuses in phased, live‑environment conditions.
• Strong understanding of commissioning, integrated systems testing (IST), and RFS readiness for mission‑critical facilities.
• Familiarity with digital project controls platforms (e.g., Procore, SmartSheets, SharePoint) and data‑driven reporting environments.
• Experience working within the Middle East regulatory, authority approval, and delivery landscape.
• Leadership presence capable of representing Parsons and the Employer credibly at executive, authority, and board‑level forums.

Parsons equally employs representation at all job levels no matter the race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability or genetic information. We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY!

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COMPETITIVE BENEFIT OFFERINGS

Financial Wellness

We care about your financial wellbeing. Parsons offers competitive pay and retirement plans to help you build wealth for the future while giving you the flexibility to diversify your investments. Work Life Harmony

Balance in life is important and time away from the office is imperative to allow you to refresh and focus your attention on the things that matter to you. Parsons supports your time away by providing paid time off and paid flexible holidays. Career Development

We are committed to fostering the personal and professional growth of our employees. Develop and advance yourself though our comprehensive training, educational and mentorship programs.

Veteran Support

We provide Industry leading benefits to support veterans and active-duty members to provide security for you and your family by offering robust leave and benefits; including paid active-duty military leave and paid time off when transitioning back to civilian life. Mind & Body

At Parsons we inspire healthier habits, heathier minds, and a healthier you through our wellness program. Participate in our weekly Meditation Mondays and Wellness Wednesdays. Wellness, at Parsons, is more than just your annual checkup. Health

Health is not a one size fits all. At Parsons, we offer a robust Employee Assistance Program as well as comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans through large, national carriers with the choice of regional PPO, HDHP, or HMO networks.