Senior Director, Project Controls – GigaScale Data Center Delivery

• Lead the project controls function for AI data center campus delivery, with responsibility for cost, schedule, risk, change control, forecasting, and executive reporting.
• Develop and implement project controls standards, processes, governance models, reporting cadences, and performance metrics across large-scale construction programs.
• Partner with data center delivery leadership, construction teams, finance, procurement, design, engineering, legal, and external contractors to support successful project execution.
• Oversee integrated master schedules, baseline schedules, critical path analysis, milestone tracking, and schedule risk assessments.
• Monitor project budgets, commitments, expenditures, forecasts, contingencies, and cost performance against approved baselines.
• Establish clear controls for change orders, scope changes, claims, delays, risks, and commercial impacts.
• Provide executive-level reporting on project health, including schedule status, cost trends, risk exposure, forecast variance, and key decision points.
• Review contractor and vendor project controls deliverables, including schedules, cost reports, progress updates, and performance data.
• Identify trends, risks, and early warning indicators that may affect project cost, schedule, quality, or delivery commitments.
• Drive consistency, transparency, and accountability across internal teams and external delivery partners.
• Support scenario planning, recovery planning, and mitigation strategies for complex delivery challenges.
• Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing project controls team capable of supporting a fast-paced, multi-site construction portfolio.
• Improve project controls tools, dashboards, automation, and data quality to support timely and informed decision-making.
• Ensure project controls practices align with Oracle’s business standards, delivery expectations, and governance requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Significant senior-level experience in project controls, construction management, program management, or project delivery for large capital projects.
• Strong background in data center construction, mission-critical facilities, large infrastructure, industrial construction, semiconductor, energy, or complex campus development.
• Proven experience managing project controls for high-value, multi-phase construction programs.
• Deep knowledge of cost management, schedule management, forecasting, change control, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Experience reviewing and challenging contractor schedules, cost reports, forecasts, and change order submissions.
• Strong understanding of construction delivery models, contract structures, procurement processes, and commercial risk.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence senior stakeholders in a matrixed corporate environment.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to present complex project data clearly and concisely.
• Experience building or improving project controls frameworks, dashboards, governance models, and reporting systems.
• Ability to travel approximately 50% as required for project reviews, site visits, contractor meetings, and leadership engagements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hyperscale data centers or AI infrastructure delivery.
• Experience working for or with large technology companies, cloud providers, colocation providers, EPC firms, or major general contractors.
• Familiarity with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Unifier, Power BI, Excel, and other project controls or reporting platforms.
• Experience with earned value management, schedule risk analysis, cost-loaded schedules, and portfolio-level reporting.
• Background managing project controls across multiple regions or concurrent construction sites.
• Experience