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Data Center Operations roles qualify for E-3 visa sponsorship when the position requires a relevant bachelor's degree in IT, engineering, or a related field. Australian professionals can secure indefinitely renewable two-year E-3 status without competing in a lottery, making this one of the most accessible paths into U.S. data center careers.
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This Position is based in Nashville, TN.
Role Summary
Lead the Finance & Planning (F&P) and business operations capability supporting Data Center Operations within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This role is accountable for building and managing a team of five IC3 professionals, establishing a scalable operating model, and translating data center operating requirements into disciplined plans, reliable forecasts, controlled purchasing execution, and decision-ready leadership insights.
As the primary business partner to Data Center Operations leadership, the Senior Manager owns the team’s priorities, service delivery, talent development, and continuous improvement. The role connects portfolio economics with daily execution across purchase requisitions (PRs), purchase orders (POs), invoicing, onboarding, and escalations, while partnering with Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Supply Chain, Construction, and Capacity Planning.
Key Responsibilities
Build and Lead the Team
- Stand up and directly manage five professionals: define roles, hire and onboard talent, set individual objectives, coach performance, conduct reviews, and build development and succession plans.
- Design the team’s service catalog, intake process, workload allocation, service-level expectations, quality checks, and backup coverage. Balance transactional demand with planning, analysis, and improvement priorities.
- Delegate execution with clear accountability; review throughput, accuracy, backlog aging, and stakeholder experience. Address performance gaps and build independent judgment within the team.
- Create an onboarding and knowledge-management program covering finance processes, procurement workflows, systems access, data center cost drivers, and escalation protocols. Maintain procedures, training, and cross-training.
Own Planning, Forecasting, and Business Partnership
- Lead annual operating plans, long-range plans, rolling forecasts, and business reviews for the assigned data center portfolio in partnership with Finance. Hold operating owners accountable for assumptions, submissions, and corrective actions.
- Connect site and regional operating plans to capacity delivery, service readiness, staffing, maintenance, and supplier requirements. Advise leaders on tradeoffs among cost, reliability, capacity, execution timing, and growth.
- Maintain an integrated view of actuals, open commitments, accruals, uncommitted forecast spend, and cash timing. Reconcile these views with Finance to prevent double counting and identify funding gaps early.
Data Center Finance & Planning
Translate Operating Drivers into Financial Decisions
- Build driver-based expense and capital forecasts by site, region, cost center, project, and spend category. Explain changes in price, volume, utilization, scope, timing, foreign exchange, and one-time versus recurring costs.
- Apply working knowledge of utility tariffs, energy consumption, demand charges, power usage effectiveness (PUE), contracted versus consumed power, colocation charges, lease escalators, and operating service agreements to assess financial exposure.
- Model the financial impact of critical facilities maintenance, electrical and cooling infrastructure, spares, repairs, vendor services, labor, security, network connectivity, and equipment lifecycle decisions. Account for redundancy, resilience, and service requirements when evaluating cost opportunities.
- Understand how power availability, rack density, cooling requirements, and capacity ramp schedules affect operating costs, capital deployment, and readiness. Evaluate high-density and AI infrastructure impacts with engineering and capacity partners.
- Partner with Accounting on expense versus capital treatment, accrual support, prepayments, asset in-service timing, depreciation assumptions, and construction-to-operations handoffs under applicable policies.
- Develop business cases using total cost of ownership, payback, net present value, and scenario analysis as appropriate. Quantify investment, recurring cost, implementation dependencies, and reliability implications; validate realized benefits with Finance.
- Establish comparable portfolio metrics, including cost per provisioned or utilized kW/MW, cost per rack, maintenance cost, and vendor spend. Define denominators and normalize for site maturity, utilization, redundancy, and geography before drawing comparisons.
Manage the Procurement and Invoice Operations Team
- Own the team’s operational delivery from intake through PR preparation, approval tracking, PO coordination, changes and renewals, receipt confirmation, invoice exception resolution, and closure. Ensure Procurement and authorized approvers retain their designated decision rights.
- Require complete business justification, approved funding, accurate cost-center/project coding, supporting contracts or statements of work, and appropriate authorization before requests advance. Track procurement lead times against service and project milestones.
- Oversee open-PO reviews, remaining balances, consumption, renewal dates, and stale commitments. Coordinate PO adjustments and closeout with requestors, Procurement, and Finance to maintain a dependable commitments view.
- Direct resolution of invoice discrepancies, missing receipts, pricing or quantity mismatches, holds, credits, and disputed charges. Coordinate required PO/receipt/invoice matching and payment readiness with Accounts Payable and receiving owners.
- Coordinate supplier and service-provider onboarding with Procurement and relevant control functions, including required documentation, supplier setup, and operational readiness. Manage employee onboarding into the team’s workflows and approved systems access.
Governance, Qualifications & Outcomes
Lead Controls, Reporting, and Escalations
- Establish approval and escalation matrices, segregation of duties, evidence standards, and documented handoffs across Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Accounts Payable. Exercise spending authority only within delegated limits.
- Own the quality and timeliness of operating reviews, reporting, PAQ responses, audit support, and leadership inquiries. Maintain consistent definitions, accountable data owners, reconciliations, and a single action-and-risk register.
- Act as the senior business escalation lead for blocked purchasing, invoice disputes, supplier onboarding delays, funding gaps, and material forecast risks. Assess financial and operational impact, assign owners and deadlines, present decisions to the appropriate authority, and drive closure.
- Prioritize escalations that threaten critical maintenance, service continuity, capacity milestones, or supplier performance. Turn recurring issues into root-cause improvements, stronger controls, and updated training.
- Lead process standardization, dashboards, and workflow automation with system owners. Establish baselines and demonstrate improvements in cycle time, accuracy, control effectiveness, and team capacity.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in finance, planning, business operations, or procurement operations, including 3+ years of direct people management with accountability for hiring, coaching, performance management, and team outcomes.
- Demonstrated finance or business operations experience supporting data centers, cloud infrastructure, colocation, or similarly capital-intensive operations, with a strong understanding of data center operating cost drivers.
- Experience owning planning and forecasting cycles, variance analysis, executive reviews, and investment decision support, with practical knowledge of commitments, accruals, expense/capital distinctions, and cash-flow timing.
- Experience managing PR/PO workflows, invoice exceptions, supplier onboarding, and internal controls across a matrixed organization; evidence of building or scaling a team or shared operating capability.
- Strong financial modeling, data analysis, executive communication, prioritization, and conflict-resolution skills. Ability to translate operational ambiguity into clear decisions and accountable execution.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent advanced qualification; experience supporting multi-site or global infrastructure portfolios; familiarity with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP/Procurement, Oracle Cloud EPM Planning, and analytics tools such as Oracle Analytics or Power BI; experience improving workflows through automation.
Success Measures
Success is measured through a fully staffed and productive five-person team; dependable service coverage and employee development; improved forecast accuracy and timely close inputs; shorter PR-to-PO and invoice-exception cycles; lower aged backlog and stale commitments; timely onboarding and escalation closure; consistent control compliance; and Finance-validated improvements in cost, productivity, and decision quality. Establish baselines and agree measurable targets with leadership during the first 90 days.
INTRODUCTION
This Position is based in Nashville, TN.
Role Summary
Lead the Finance & Planning (F&P) and business operations capability supporting Data Center Operations within Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This role is accountable for building and managing a team of five IC3 professionals, establishing a scalable operating model, and translating data center operating requirements into disciplined plans, reliable forecasts, controlled purchasing execution, and decision-ready leadership insights.
As the primary business partner to Data Center Operations leadership, the Senior Manager owns the team’s priorities, service delivery, talent development, and continuous improvement. The role connects portfolio economics with daily execution across purchase requisitions (PRs), purchase orders (POs), invoicing, onboarding, and escalations, while partnering with Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Supply Chain, Construction, and Capacity Planning.
Key Responsibilities
Build and Lead the Team
- Stand up and directly manage five professionals: define roles, hire and onboard talent, set individual objectives, coach performance, conduct reviews, and build development and succession plans.
- Design the team’s service catalog, intake process, workload allocation, service-level expectations, quality checks, and backup coverage. Balance transactional demand with planning, analysis, and improvement priorities.
- Delegate execution with clear accountability; review throughput, accuracy, backlog aging, and stakeholder experience. Address performance gaps and build independent judgment within the team.
- Create an onboarding and knowledge-management program covering finance processes, procurement workflows, systems access, data center cost drivers, and escalation protocols. Maintain procedures, training, and cross-training.
Own Planning, Forecasting, and Business Partnership
- Lead annual operating plans, long-range plans, rolling forecasts, and business reviews for the assigned data center portfolio in partnership with Finance. Hold operating owners accountable for assumptions, submissions, and corrective actions.
- Connect site and regional operating plans to capacity delivery, service readiness, staffing, maintenance, and supplier requirements. Advise leaders on tradeoffs among cost, reliability, capacity, execution timing, and growth.
- Maintain an integrated view of actuals, open commitments, accruals, uncommitted forecast spend, and cash timing. Reconcile these views with Finance to prevent double counting and identify funding gaps early.
Data Center Finance & Planning
Translate Operating Drivers into Financial Decisions
- Build driver-based expense and capital forecasts by site, region, cost center, project, and spend category. Explain changes in price, volume, utilization, scope, timing, foreign exchange, and one-time versus recurring costs.
- Apply working knowledge of utility tariffs, energy consumption, demand charges, power usage effectiveness (PUE), contracted versus consumed power, colocation charges, lease escalators, and operating service agreements to assess financial exposure.
- Model the financial impact of critical facilities maintenance, electrical and cooling infrastructure, spares, repairs, vendor services, labor, security, network connectivity, and equipment lifecycle decisions. Account for redundancy, resilience, and service requirements when evaluating cost opportunities.
- Understand how power availability, rack density, cooling requirements, and capacity ramp schedules affect operating costs, capital deployment, and readiness. Evaluate high-density and AI infrastructure impacts with engineering and capacity partners.
- Partner with Accounting on expense versus capital treatment, accrual support, prepayments, asset in-service timing, depreciation assumptions, and construction-to-operations handoffs under applicable policies.
- Develop business cases using total cost of ownership, payback, net present value, and scenario analysis as appropriate. Quantify investment, recurring cost, implementation dependencies, and reliability implications; validate realized benefits with Finance.
- Establish comparable portfolio metrics, including cost per provisioned or utilized kW/MW, cost per rack, maintenance cost, and vendor spend. Define denominators and normalize for site maturity, utilization, redundancy, and geography before drawing comparisons.
Manage the Procurement and Invoice Operations Team
- Own the team’s operational delivery from intake through PR preparation, approval tracking, PO coordination, changes and renewals, receipt confirmation, invoice exception resolution, and closure. Ensure Procurement and authorized approvers retain their designated decision rights.
- Require complete business justification, approved funding, accurate cost-center/project coding, supporting contracts or statements of work, and appropriate authorization before requests advance. Track procurement lead times against service and project milestones.
- Oversee open-PO reviews, remaining balances, consumption, renewal dates, and stale commitments. Coordinate PO adjustments and closeout with requestors, Procurement, and Finance to maintain a dependable commitments view.
- Direct resolution of invoice discrepancies, missing receipts, pricing or quantity mismatches, holds, credits, and disputed charges. Coordinate required PO/receipt/invoice matching and payment readiness with Accounts Payable and receiving owners.
- Coordinate supplier and service-provider onboarding with Procurement and relevant control functions, including required documentation, supplier setup, and operational readiness. Manage employee onboarding into the team’s workflows and approved systems access.
Governance, Qualifications & Outcomes
Lead Controls, Reporting, and Escalations
- Establish approval and escalation matrices, segregation of duties, evidence standards, and documented handoffs across Operations, Finance, Procurement, and Accounts Payable. Exercise spending authority only within delegated limits.
- Own the quality and timeliness of operating reviews, reporting, PAQ responses, audit support, and leadership inquiries. Maintain consistent definitions, accountable data owners, reconciliations, and a single action-and-risk register.
- Act as the senior business escalation lead for blocked purchasing, invoice disputes, supplier onboarding delays, funding gaps, and material forecast risks. Assess financial and operational impact, assign owners and deadlines, present decisions to the appropriate authority, and drive closure.
- Prioritize escalations that threaten critical maintenance, service continuity, capacity milestones, or supplier performance. Turn recurring issues into root-cause improvements, stronger controls, and updated training.
- Lead process standardization, dashboards, and workflow automation with system owners. Establish baselines and demonstrate improvements in cycle time, accuracy, control effectiveness, and team capacity.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of progressively responsible experience in finance, planning, business operations, or procurement operations, including 3+ years of direct people management with accountability for hiring, coaching, performance management, and team outcomes.
- Demonstrated finance or business operations experience supporting data centers, cloud infrastructure, colocation, or similarly capital-intensive operations, with a strong understanding of data center operating cost drivers.
- Experience owning planning and forecasting cycles, variance analysis, executive reviews, and investment decision support, with practical knowledge of commitments, accruals, expense/capital distinctions, and cash-flow timing.
- Experience managing PR/PO workflows, invoice exceptions, supplier onboarding, and internal controls across a matrixed organization; evidence of building or scaling a team or shared operating capability.
- Strong financial modeling, data analysis, executive communication, prioritization, and conflict-resolution skills. Ability to translate operational ambiguity into clear decisions and accountable execution.
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent advanced qualification; experience supporting multi-site or global infrastructure portfolios; familiarity with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP/Procurement, Oracle Cloud EPM Planning, and analytics tools such as Oracle Analytics or Power BI; experience improving workflows through automation.
Success Measures
Success is measured through a fully staffed and productive five-person team; dependable service coverage and employee development; improved forecast accuracy and timely close inputs; shorter PR-to-PO and invoice-exception cycles; lower aged backlog and stale commitments; timely onboarding and escalation closure; consistent control compliance; and Finance-validated improvements in cost, productivity, and decision quality. Establish baselines and agree measurable targets with leadership during the first 90 days.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship in Data Center Operations
Verify your degree supports specialty occupation
Data center roles vary widely in qualification requirements. Confirm your IT, engineering, or computer science degree directly maps to the specific job duties, since USCIS scrutinizes whether the position genuinely requires a bachelor's degree in a relevant field.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Search DOL's public Labor Condition Application disclosure data for employers who have previously certified data center or infrastructure operations roles. Prior LCA filings signal the employer understands the E-3 visa process and won't stall on paperwork after extending an offer.
Address your Australian credentials proactively
A three-year Australian bachelor's degree is generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree for E-3 purposes. Flag this clearly in your application materials so hiring managers and their legal teams don't misread your qualification level and slow down the sponsorship decision.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service after your offer
Once you have a signed offer, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle your LCA and visa paperwork. This keeps the DOL certification and consulate appointment on track without burdening an employer who may be sponsoring an E-3 for the first time.
Clarify shift and on-call obligations before the LCA
Data center operations often involve rotating shifts or 24/7 on-call responsibilities. Your employer must certify the actual work location on the LCA, so confirm the primary site address before filing, especially if you'll rotate between facilities in different metro areas.
Request E-3 status before your current visa expires
E-3 renewals require a new LCA each cycle, so start the process at least 90 days before your status ends. USCIS does not offer automatic extensions, and a lapsed E-3 could interrupt continuous employment at a facility that requires unbroken access authorization.
E-3 Visa Data Center Operations: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Data Center Operations jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate filters Data Center Operations roles specifically by E-3 visa sponsorship eligibility, so you're not sorting through postings from employers unfamiliar with the visa. You can search by location, role type, and employer sponsorship history, which saves significant time compared to filtering general job results manually.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Data Center Operations role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3?
It depends on how the role is defined. Positions focused on systems engineering, network infrastructure, or automation typically qualify because they require a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field. General facilities or physical infrastructure roles with no degree requirement often don't meet the specialty occupation standard USCIS applies to E-3 petitions.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Data Center Operations professionals?
The E-3 has a 10,500 annual cap that has never been exhausted, so there's no lottery and no waiting period. You can apply directly at a U.S. consulate in Australia with a certified LCA and a job offer, and your employer can bring you on within weeks rather than months. The H-1B lottery means most applicants wait at least a year for a chance at a slot.
Can my E-3 be tied to a specific data center location, and what happens if I transfer sites?
Your LCA is certified for a specific work location or metropolitan statistical area. If your employer moves you to a new facility in a different metro area, they must file a new LCA before you start working there. Short-term assignments across sites within the same metro area generally don't require a new filing, but permanent transfers do.