Technical Program Manager - Data Center Infrastructure Delivery

Nice to Have

• Hyperscale, AI/GPU, cloud region, or high-density compute delivery experience.
• Utility interconnection, substation, MV/HV power, and liquid cooling experience.
• Work with colocation providers, GCs, EPCs, commissioning agents, and permitting authorities.
• PMP, construction management, engineering, or project controls certification.
• Success Measures
• Sites reach infrastructure turnover on the committed timeline.
• Milestones across engineering, construction, commissioning, operations, procurement, and utilities are visible and accurate.
• Critical path risks are escalated early with a clear owner, impact, and mitigation options.
• Handoff to Operations meets defined readiness criteria, with no major gaps.
• Salary Range Information
• The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.

About Lambda

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated schedule from site handoff to Operations; break builds into workstreams with clear owners and milestones, and actively manage the critical path and schedule compression.
• Drive the delivery sequence from rack requirements to engineering criteria, design, plan set, permitting, construction, commissioning, and turnover for MW-scale, high-density (including liquid-cooled) capacity.
• Lead cross-functional execution with Real Estate (site assumptions, fiber, permit path), Energy and Utilities (interconnection, substation, power delivery), Engineering (requirements in the design and plan set), Procurement (long-lead equipment), Construction Management (GC schedule, field progress, inspections), Commissioning (test plans, acceptance), Operations (staffing, procedures, access), and Security, and Finance (requirements, budget, CapEx), and Legal.
• Manage risk and governance: maintain risk registers, dependency logs, decision trackers, and schedule variance reports; surface permitting, utility, design, procurement, sequencing, and commissioning risks early.
• Escalate with facts: status, baseline vs. forecast date, variance, impact, owner, mitigation options, and decision date. Lead schedule recovery when milestones slip.
• Hold partners accountable to contractual milestones, production and shipping schedules, and commercial commitments while maintaining productive relationships.
• Communicate to leadership through program reviews and concise, high-signal status updates.
• Deliver clean turnover: define handover criteria and ensure white space, power, cooling, controls, cable pathways, access, and documentation are ready for Network Deployment.
• Scale the function: build repeatable playbooks, dashboards, and lessons-learned loops across concurrent deployments.
• Travel (~40%) to sites to validate progress and build partner relationships.
• Owns: site-level delivery program management; the integrated schedule; cross-functional coordination; milestone, risk, dependency, and decision tracking; variance reporting and escalation; Operations readiness.
• Partners on, but does not own: site selection and real estate; engineering design authority; construction means and methods and GC management; commissioning authority; procurement commercial strategy; network and services deployment; steady-state operations.
• Have 7+ years in data center delivery, infrastructure or construction program management, mission-critical facilities, or large capital projects.
• Have delivered ground-up data centers or comparable mission-critical, industrial, semiconductor, or energy facilities, ideally multi-site on compressed timelines.
• Know the full lifecycle: site handoff, permitting, design, utilities, procurement, construction, MEP, controls, commissioning, and turnover.
• Run integrated schedules, critical path, dependency logs, and change control with rigor.
• Understand technical tradeoffs well enough to spot risks, ask precise questions, and escalate without owning design authority.
• Align partners, vendors, and engineering teams around shared deliverables, and bridge physical infrastructure with network and security teams.
• Make sound decisions with incomplete information under schedule pressure, and communicate status clearly to executives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.