Data Center Services Manager

Google

Job details

  • ONSITE
  • UNKNOWN
  • Mumbai
  • India
  • Verified 2026-11-10
  • Source: Google public Google Careers board

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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 extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage various Engineering-specific programs and teams.

As the Data Center Services Manager, you will be fully involved in nearly every aspect of the design development and localisation, procurement, schedule and cost management, delivery, commissioning, handover and close-out of the data center projects, including facility upgrades within operational data centres. You will partner with our local/regional facility managers, plant engineers, our design, project controls, delivery and commissioning teams, to develop scalable solutions at pace.

This role requires you to manage complex schedules, budgets and broad inter-dependencies, all while maintaining industry leading EHS and Quality standards.The role of the Data Center Services (DCS) manager requires strong communication, collaborative and organisational skills, with the ability to self-direct. You will manage a team and therefore strong leadership skills are required.The Data Center team designs and operates some of the most sophisticated electrical and HVAC systems in the world. We are an upbeat, creative, team-oriented group of engineers committed to building and operating powerful data centers. Responsibilities
  • Manage a large, campus-wide data center construction and delivery organization with the DCS Manager as the single point of accountability and oversight for major projects utilizing internal and outsourced resources.
  • Support the development of detailed, localized designs, leveraging the programmatic design plan of record, while driving procurement, construction, commissioning, close out, and hand-off to the Operations team to meet safety, cost, schedule, quality, and customer requirements.
  • Lead problem-solving engagement with partners to overcome issues that affect the delivery of projects.
  • Establish and maintain delivery models and global relationships with multiple vendors, measuring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and metrics.
  • Drive the proactive identification, selection, and onboarding of new regional contractors and vendors to increase the current bench.
Qualifications Minimum qualifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10 years of experience in program management.
  • 7 years of experience in leadership role(s) with/without direct reports.
  • Experience managing machine learning or artificial intelligence programs.
  • Experience with AI, Generative AI, data processing technologies, performance, or scalability optimizations.

Preferred qualifications:
  • Experience managing multi-group, or multi-disciplinary projects.
  • Experience in people management and leadership.
  • Experience managing construction projects within an international working environment.
  • Experience with commercial contract management and procurement.
  • Experience working within the mission critical facilities.
  • Experience managing vendor relationships and understanding standard practices in the design and construction industry.

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