Senior Director, SCADA and Controls Engineering

The Senior Director, SCADA and Controls Engineering leads the strategy, architecture, engineering standards, and delivery enablement for data center controls systems across a global portfolio. This role drives the design and development of Building Management Systems (BMS), Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS), Building Automation Systems (BAS), and SCADA platforms to ensure safe, reliable, scalable, and efficient operations for large, high-availability and AI-infrastructure data center programs.

This leader partners closely with Data Center Design/Build teams, Network and Security, Operations, Reliability Engineering, and key vendors to define repeatable reference architectures, govern designs through structured reviews, and ensure operational outcomes are achieved through design, commissioning and lifecycle support.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy, Architecture, and Standards

• Define global controls strategy for BMS/EPMS/BAS/SCADA capabilities aligned to OCI's reliability, scalability, and security requirements.
• Establish and maintain engineering standards, specifications, and reference designs for controls systems (including topology, protocols, naming conventions, alarming philosophy, historian requirements, time sync, and redundancy).
• Own the controls portions of Architect Design Guidelines (ADGs), templates, Basis of Design (BoD), and design specifications to enable repeatable deployment across multiple site types and project models.
• Drive standardization of approved components, vendor qualification criteria, and lifecycle management (e.g., obsolescence planning, spares strategy, patching windows).

Engineering Leadership & Project Enablement

• Lead controls engineering teams (internal and partner resources) delivering designs across the entire OCI portfolio.
• Provide technical direction to ensure BMS/EPMS/SCADA designs integrate effectively with mechanical, electrical, controls, network, and security requirements.
• Govern project execution through milestone design reviews, compliance checks, and exception/waiver management; ensure issues are documented, risk-assessed, and resolved.
• Ensure designs are constructible, modular, and support speed-to-market without compromising reliability or safety.

Reliability, Commissioning, and Operational Performance

• Define controls commissioning criteria, functional testing standards, and acceptance requirements (including integrated systems testing).
• Establish alarming, event management, and escalation philosophies that support operations at scale and reduce alert fatigue.
• Drive reliability programs such as redundancy validation, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), incident postmortems, and continuous improvement actions for controls systems.
• Partner with operations to ensure usability, maintainability, and training readiness for new deployments.

Cybersecurity, Network, and Compliance

• Ensure controls platforms meet enterprise security and compliance expectations, including segmentation/zone models, identity/access controls, logging, and secure remote access patterns.
• Partner with security and network engineering to define approved architectures for OT/controls networking, protocol enablement, and monitoring.
• Ensure documentation, change control, and configuration management practices support auditing and operational rigor.

Vendor and Stakeholder Management

• Build strategic relationships with key controls vendors and integrators; manage performance, deliverables, and alignment to standards.
• Influence cross-functional stakeholders and executive leadership on controls-related priorities, investments, and risk tradeoffs.
• Support sourcing and contract language development for controls scopes (standards adherence, cybersecurity clauses, commissioning deliverables, SLAs).

Required Qualifications:

• 12+ years in mission-critical/data center engineering, including 7+ years leading controls/BMS/EPMS/SCADA engineering or equivalent OT systems.
• Demonstrated experience delivering controls systems for large-scale data centers or critical infrastructure (e.g., hyperscale, colocation, industrial, utility, semiconductor).
• Experience developing scalable tag standardization frameworks and naming conventions to ensure consistency across campuses and enable portfolio-level analytics.
• Familiarity with MQTT, OPC UA, BACnet/IP, Modbus TCP, and other industrial communication protocols used in large-scale data center environments.
• Experience implementing secure remote access architectures and cybersecurity best practices for distributed controls systems, including network segmentation and role-based access control.
• Demonstrated ability to lead fleet-wi