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Senior level data manager jobs place experienced professionals in charge of data strategy, governance frameworks, and the cross-functional teams and projects that turn raw data into reliable business decisions. Roles cover 36% remote and hybrid settings across Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Construction & Real Estate, with employers like Apple, Meta, and Google hiring at this level now.
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Principal Data Center Construction Lead to provide senior field leadership for the delivery of hyperscale AI data center construction in Shackelford, Texas. This role serves as one of the senior construction leaders on-site, responsible for leading Construction Managers and driving safe, predictable, and high-quality execution across multiple buildings, systems, or major discipline scopes while ensuring alignment with OCI's aggressive delivery milestones.
The Principal Data Center Construction Manager Lead provides strategic field leadership by directing daily construction execution, coordinating multiple contractor organizations, removing execution barriers, driving schedule performance, and ensuring construction activities are executed in accordance with Oracle's safety, quality, commissioning, and operational readiness standards. This position serves as the primary escalation point for complex field issues and partners closely with project leadership, design, commissioning, operations, and contractor leadership to successfully deliver world-class AI infrastructure.
This is a highly visible field leadership position requiring exceptional construction management experience, strong executive communication skills, and the ability to lead large multidisciplinary teams through fast-paced hyperscale construction programs.
This position is based in Shackelford, Texas, approximately 20 miles from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Abilene AI Data Center. This is an onsite position and does not offer remote flexibility. We are seeking candidates who are local to the area or open to relocating to Abilene. Oracle offers relocation assistance for eligible candidates.
Responsibilities
- Lead field execution across multiple buildings, campus zones, systems, or major discipline scopes throughout all phases of construction.
- Provide direct leadership, coaching, and oversight for Construction Managers responsible for assigned buildings and trade disciplines.
- Drive safe, predictable, and high-quality execution while reinforcing Oracle's culture of safety, accountability, and operational excellence.
- Partner with General Contractors, EPC partners, subcontractors, trade partners, and contractor leadership to ensure alignment on execution strategy and project priorities.
- Lead daily field coordination meetings, execution planning, constraint resolution, and schedule recovery efforts.
- Monitor construction progress, productivity, manpower, workface planning, logistics, sequencing, and milestone achievement across assigned areas.
- Identify execution risks, schedule impacts, resource constraints, and field conflicts while developing proactive mitigation and recovery plans.
- Ensure construction activities align with approved schedules, commissioning milestones, turnover plans, and operational readiness objectives.
- Drive field accountability for quality, installation standards, inspection readiness, and reduction of rework.
- Partner closely with QA/QC, commissioning, engineering, controls, logistics, scheduling, safety, procurement, and operations teams to support integrated project delivery.
- Oversee turnover planning, punch-list completion, system readiness, and successful transition to commissioning and startup.
- Support executive project reporting by providing accurate field status, milestone forecasts, productivity updates, risk assessments, and recovery recommendations.
- Resolve complex field execution issues requiring cross-functional coordination and executive-level decision-making.
- Promote consistent construction management practices, mentoring, and leadership development across the OCI construction organization.
- Maintain a highly visible field presence through daily site walks, contractor engagement, and active leadership of construction activities.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent construction leadership experience.
- 10+ years of experience managing construction execution on large-scale, complex mission-critical or industrial construction projects.
- 5+ years of experience leading Construction Managers, Superintendents, field engineers, or multidisciplinary construction teams.
- Demonstrated experience delivering hyperscale data centers, mission-critical facilities, semiconductor, advanced manufacturing, industrial, energy, pharmaceutical, or other technically complex infrastructure projects.
- Extensive knowledge of construction sequencing, contractor management, workface planning, productivity analysis, schedule execution, and field coordination.
- Proven ability to lead multiple contractors and stakeholders within fast-track, multi-billion-dollar construction environments.
- Strong understanding of commissioning-driven delivery, phased turnover, startup planning, and operational readiness.
- Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, commissioning plans, turnover documentation, and contractor execution plans.
- Demonstrated experience identifying project risks, resolving complex construction issues, and driving schedule recovery initiatives.
- Strong understanding of construction safety programs, quality management systems, field inspections, and owner-side construction governance.
- Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
- Ability to work primarily onsite with approximately 90–95% field engagement.
- Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, rapidly evolving, high-growth construction environments while maintaining strong ownership and accountability.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading construction delivery for hyperscale cloud or AI data center campuses.
- Experience serving in an Owner's Representative, Construction Management, EPC, or General Contractor leadership role.
- Strong understanding of electrical, mechanical, structural, civil, architectural, controls, network, and commissioning systems supporting mission-critical facilities.
- Experience leading multiple Construction Managers or integrated construction teams across large campus developments.
- Demonstrated success delivering fast-track construction programs with aggressive commissioning and occupancy milestones.
- Experience managing construction execution utilizing Lean Construction, Last Planner®, pull planning, workface planning, or advanced planning methodologies.
- Familiarity with Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Oracle Aconex, Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, or similar project controls and reporting platforms. Experience supporting executive reporting, portfolio-level construction governance, and strategic delivery planning across multiple concurrent projects.
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a Principal Data Center Construction Lead to provide senior field leadership for the delivery of hyperscale AI data center construction in Shackelford, Texas. This role serves as one of the senior construction leaders on-site, responsible for leading Construction Managers and driving safe, predictable, and high-quality execution across multiple buildings, systems, or major discipline scopes while ensuring alignment with OCI's aggressive delivery milestones.
The Principal Data Center Construction Manager Lead provides strategic field leadership by directing daily construction execution, coordinating multiple contractor organizations, removing execution barriers, driving schedule performance, and ensuring construction activities are executed in accordance with Oracle's safety, quality, commissioning, and operational readiness standards. This position serves as the primary escalation point for complex field issues and partners closely with project leadership, design, commissioning, operations, and contractor leadership to successfully deliver world-class AI infrastructure.
This is a highly visible field leadership position requiring exceptional construction management experience, strong executive communication skills, and the ability to lead large multidisciplinary teams through fast-paced hyperscale construction programs.
This position is based in Shackelford, Texas, approximately 20 miles from the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Abilene AI Data Center. This is an onsite position and does not offer remote flexibility. We are seeking candidates who are local to the area or open to relocating to Abilene. Oracle offers relocation assistance for eligible candidates.
Responsibilities
- Lead field execution across multiple buildings, campus zones, systems, or major discipline scopes throughout all phases of construction.
- Provide direct leadership, coaching, and oversight for Construction Managers responsible for assigned buildings and trade disciplines.
- Drive safe, predictable, and high-quality execution while reinforcing Oracle's culture of safety, accountability, and operational excellence.
- Partner with General Contractors, EPC partners, subcontractors, trade partners, and contractor leadership to ensure alignment on execution strategy and project priorities.
- Lead daily field coordination meetings, execution planning, constraint resolution, and schedule recovery efforts.
- Monitor construction progress, productivity, manpower, workface planning, logistics, sequencing, and milestone achievement across assigned areas.
- Identify execution risks, schedule impacts, resource constraints, and field conflicts while developing proactive mitigation and recovery plans.
- Ensure construction activities align with approved schedules, commissioning milestones, turnover plans, and operational readiness objectives.
- Drive field accountability for quality, installation standards, inspection readiness, and reduction of rework.
- Partner closely with QA/QC, commissioning, engineering, controls, logistics, scheduling, safety, procurement, and operations teams to support integrated project delivery.
- Oversee turnover planning, punch-list completion, system readiness, and successful transition to commissioning and startup.
- Support executive project reporting by providing accurate field status, milestone forecasts, productivity updates, risk assessments, and recovery recommendations.
- Resolve complex field execution issues requiring cross-functional coordination and executive-level decision-making.
- Promote consistent construction management practices, mentoring, and leadership development across the OCI construction organization.
- Maintain a highly visible field presence through daily site walks, contractor engagement, and active leadership of construction activities.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent construction leadership experience.
- 10+ years of experience managing construction execution on large-scale, complex mission-critical or industrial construction projects.
- 5+ years of experience leading Construction Managers, Superintendents, field engineers, or multidisciplinary construction teams.
- Demonstrated experience delivering hyperscale data centers, mission-critical facilities, semiconductor, advanced manufacturing, industrial, energy, pharmaceutical, or other technically complex infrastructure projects.
- Extensive knowledge of construction sequencing, contractor management, workface planning, productivity analysis, schedule execution, and field coordination.
- Proven ability to lead multiple contractors and stakeholders within fast-track, multi-billion-dollar construction environments.
- Strong understanding of commissioning-driven delivery, phased turnover, startup planning, and operational readiness.
- Ability to read and interpret construction drawings, specifications, schedules, commissioning plans, turnover documentation, and contractor execution plans.
- Demonstrated experience identifying project risks, resolving complex construction issues, and driving schedule recovery initiatives.
- Strong understanding of construction safety programs, quality management systems, field inspections, and owner-side construction governance.
- Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
- Ability to work primarily onsite with approximately 90–95% field engagement.
- Proven ability to thrive in fast-paced, rapidly evolving, high-growth construction environments while maintaining strong ownership and accountability.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading construction delivery for hyperscale cloud or AI data center campuses.
- Experience serving in an Owner's Representative, Construction Management, EPC, or General Contractor leadership role.
- Strong understanding of electrical, mechanical, structural, civil, architectural, controls, network, and commissioning systems supporting mission-critical facilities.
- Experience leading multiple Construction Managers or integrated construction teams across large campus developments.
- Demonstrated success delivering fast-track construction programs with aggressive commissioning and occupancy milestones.
- Experience managing construction execution utilizing Lean Construction, Last Planner®, pull planning, workface planning, or advanced planning methodologies.
- Familiarity with Primavera P6, Oracle Primavera Cloud, Oracle Aconex, Procore, Autodesk Construction Cloud, Power BI, Tableau, Smartsheet, or similar project controls and reporting platforms. Experience supporting executive reporting, portfolio-level construction governance, and strategic delivery planning across multiple concurrent projects.
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Senior Level Data Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a senior level data manager job?
Employers at this level want candidates who have owned data programs end-to-end, not just contributed to them. Demonstrate a history of building or overhauling governance frameworks, leading teams through complex migrations or platform transitions, and translating data quality issues into business outcomes. Strong candidates also show they can influence stakeholders outside the data function and mentor junior analysts or engineers effectively.
Which companies hire senior level data managers?
Companies hiring senior level data managers right now include Apple, Meta, and Google, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. Hiring at this level tends to concentrate in large enterprises and growth-stage companies where data infrastructure is central to operations and strategic decision-making.
Are there remote senior level data manager jobs?
Yes, remote and hybrid options are common at this level. About 36% of senior level data manager openings are remote or hybrid as of July 2026, reflecting how many organizations treat senior data leadership as location-flexible. On-site roles do exist, typically in industries with stricter data security or compliance requirements.
What makes a data manager role senior level?
Senior level data manager roles are defined by scope and ownership rather than task execution. Responsibilities typically include setting data governance strategy, owning data quality and architecture decisions across the organization, leading teams or cross-functional initiatives, and advising executive stakeholders. Mentoring junior staff and driving process improvements that have measurable organizational impact are also expected at this stage.
Which industries hire the most senior level data managers?
Senior level data manager roles concentrate in Technology & Software, Consulting & Professional Services, and Construction & Real Estate, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of July 2026. These sectors tend to generate high volumes of complex, regulated, or mission-critical data that requires experienced leadership to govern, integrate, and put to productive use.