Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in data centre construction, program management, or critical facilities operations.
• Experience navigating multi-stakeholder environments, managing handovers across decoupled organizations (e.g., central strategy, real estate, construction, and field operations).
• Experience monitoring project health, managing project scope, and implementing risk mitigation registers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience in navigating and balancing the conflicting priorities of construction timelines and operational stability, including mitigating compressed commissioning schedules.
• Experience leading structured upskilling programmes and cross-site knowledge sharing initiatives.
• Demonstrated ability to convert unique on-the-ground challenges, country-specific constraints, and feedback loops into standardised global templates and playbooks.
• Exceptional project management skills, with the ability to create workable project plans and define clear project scopes.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with an ability to distil complex engineering concepts and delivery friction points into clear, actionable executive summaries.

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 projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.

The AI and Infrastructure team is redefining what’s possible. We empower Google customers with breakthrough capabilities and insights by delivering AI and Infrastructure at unparalleled scale, efficiency, reliability and velocity. Our customers include Googlers, Google Cloud customers, and billions of Google users worldwide.

We're the driving force behind Google's groundbreaking innovations, empowering the development of our cutting-edge AI models, delivering unparalleled computing power to global services, and providing the essential platforms that enable developers to build the future. From software to hardware our teams are shaping the future of world-leading hyperscale computing, with key teams working on the development of our TPUs, Vertex AI for Google Cloud, Google Global Networking, Data Center operations, systems research, and much more.

Responsibilities

• Establish yourself as the definitive regional greenfield subject matter expert for Data Centre Operations (DCOps).
• Support site leadership in resolving conflicting priorities between construction timelines and operational requirements. Engage with broader stakeholders to strongly represent the needs of DCOps.
• Safeguard the critical handover from construction to site operations through risk management. Partner closely with site and area leadership to proactively mitigate delays and resolve friction between construction timelines and operational necessities.
• Partner with Planning, Engineering, and Design teams to ensure blueprints prioritize maintainability, safety, and efficiency.
• Guide early stages of commissioning, integrating DCOps early to master the building's DNA and clear operational readiness gates. Dynamically allocate Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across sites during critical phases (e.g., peak commissioning) to ensure every project receives vital technical oversight and ensure regional alignment of priorities.