Senior Manager, Data Center Commissioning & Validation

As Senior Commissioning Validation Manager, you will lead commissioning validation governance for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center delivery programs, ensuring critical electrical, mechanical, controls, life-safety, and supporting infrastructure systems are tested, validated, documented, and accepted before operational turnover. This role provides site- and program-level leadership across commissioning readiness, test execution oversight, issue resolution, and acceptance quality for new builds, expansions, retrofits, and high-priority capacity programs.

You will serve as a senior people leader within the Data Center Commissioning organization, partnering with Construction, Engineering, Site Deployment, Facilities Operations, Reliability, Security, Network, Supply Chain, and third-party commissioning agents to drive predictable, safe, and auditable commissioning outcomes. The role requires deep mission-critical infrastructure judgment, strong field execution discipline, and the ability to lead managers, engineers, vendors, and cross-functional stakeholders through complex commissioning milestones.

This is not a purely administrative project management role. It is a technical commissioning leadership role responsible for ensuring installed systems perform as designed, commissioning evidence is complete, risks are surfaced early, and operational teams receive facilities that are ready to run without latent defects or unresolved acceptance risk.

Key Responsibilities 

• Lead commissioning validation execution across assigned data center sites, campuses, regions, or major capacity programs, with accountability for readiness, test governance, quality, safety, and operational acceptance.

• Own commissioning validation standards for L1-L5 activities, including factory witness testing, pre-functional checks, functional performance testing, integrated systems testing, failure-mode validation, sequence-of-operations verification, and turnover documentation.

• Provide technical and management oversight of internal commissioning teams, commissioning agents, general contractors, trade partners, equipment vendors, and other third-party service providers.

• Partner with Engineering and Construction teams to review design intent, submittals, commissioning plans, method statements, test scripts, acceptance criteria, and system readiness before field execution.

• Ensure commissioning activities validate critical MEP and controls systems, including medium- and low-voltage power distribution, generators, UPS systems, switchgear, HVAC, chilled water systems, pumps, BMS, EPMS, SCADA/DCIM interfaces, fire/life-safety systems, and supporting infrastructure.

• Drive commissioning schedule integration with construction completion, site readiness, network deployment, rack energization, operations staffing, CMMS activation, and customer capacity milestones.

• Identify commissioning risks, blockers, failed test conditions, recurring deficiencies, documentation gaps, and acceptance issues; drive clear ownership, escalation, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and closure discipline.

• Establish portfolio-level reporting for commissioning progress, defect aging, test completion, system readiness, vendor performance, safety observations, punch-list health, and operational turnover risk.

• Ensure commissioning deliverables meet OCI standards for safety, quality, operability, maintainability, security, compliance, and long-term operations supportability.

• Lead continuous improvement of commissioning playbooks, validation templates, test-script quality, lessons learned, vendor scorecards, and readiness gates across the data center delivery lifecycle.

• Develop and coach commissioning managers and senior technical contributors, building capability, accountability, and consistent execution practices across the organization.

• Represent commissioning status, risk, and acceptance recommendations to senior leaders, ensuring executive communications are clear, evidence-based, and tied to business-critical capacity delivery decisions.