Lease Delivery Program Manager

About the Role
The company Cloud Operations + Innovation (CO+I) is responsible for planning, building, and operating the datacenter infrastructure that powers the company’s global cloud services. CO+I ensures the infrastructure is secure, resilient, and scalable, enabling customers, partners, and businesses worldwide to rely on the company’s cloud platforms daily.

Integrated Lease Delivery (ILD) is a key part of CO+I, focusing on the delivery of leased datacenter capacity. The team combines program management, engineering, construction management, commissioning, safety, commercial governance, project controls, and operational readiness to ensure capacity is delivered safely, predictably, and at scale.

The Lease Delivery Program Manager (LDPM) plays a crucial role as the company’s accountable program leader for leased datacenter delivery. The LDPM leads complex, multi-disciplinary datacenter construction and fit-out programs from lease execution through to the handover to Operations, ensuring a cohesive delivery view across various stakeholders and partners.

If you have strong technical and business acumen, leadership qualities, creativity, and a passion for impactful work, this position is for you. The company is dedicated to empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more by fostering a culture of inclusion, respect, integrity, and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Lead leased datacenter delivery programs across multiple projects, tranches, or sites.
• Integrate construction, engineering, technical infrastructure, commissioning, safety, commercial, project controls, and operational readiness workstreams into a coordinated program plan.
• Manage program-level governance, reporting, escalation, risk, and dependency management.
• Serve as the company’s senior delivery interface with lease providers, contractors, consultants, and internal stakeholders, including Engineering, End to End, Commissioning, Safety, Operations, Commercial, Legal, Procurement, Security, and Network teams.
• Ensure timely delivery of the company milestones: Ready for Service, Ready for Network Install, commissioning, fit-out completion, and turnover milestones.
• Support commercial and contractual governance, including change control, delivery decisions, and issue resolution.
• Foster a strong safety culture and ensure safe delivery is central to program decision-making.
• Manage a team of external owner representatives.
• Ensure regional goals for delivering capacity align with business OKRs.
• Identify and track metrics to improve milestone delivery, cost, and other OKRs.
• Act as Construction and Fit-out Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) during lease site selection.

Qualifications
Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Construction Management, or a related engineering field; OR 7+ years of relevant construction management experience in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of recent experience in construction management of large, complex projects involving large-scale mechanical, electrical, or plumbing (MEP) plants.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities, projects, and deadlines simultaneously.
• Ability to independently manage deadlines and support staff.
• Strong influencing skills with cross-discipline teams.
• Knowledge of construction health & safety protocols.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in datacenter, cloud infrastructure, telecommunications, energy, construction, or mission-critical environments.
• Familiarity with lease providers, developers, landlords, consultants, contractors, or outsourced delivery models.
• Understanding of commissioning, operational readiness, handover, project controls, change control, and commercial governance.
• Capacity to operate with ambiguity, create structure, build trust, and maintain delivery momentum in complex stakeholder environments.

Background Check Requirements
Candidates must meet the company, customer, and/or government security screening requirements for this role. This includes passing the company Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.