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Lead Principal Data Center Construction Manager

Oracle

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Compensation
$126–264K/yr
Location
Multiple U.S. locations
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Oracle seeks a Principal Data Center Construction Manager to provide expert oversight and technical leadership for data center construction performed by colocation providers. The role focuses on base building and MEP infrastructure, coordinating schedules, design, quality, risk, compliance, and tenant fit-out integration. It requires regular project visits and 50% or more travel.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Construction Project ManagementSchedule ManagementRisk EvaluationTenant Fit-Out IntegrationQuality AssuranceDesign CoordinationStakeholder CommunicationRisk ManagementRegulatory ComplianceData Center ConstructionMEP Infrastructure

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off
Parental Leave

Full job description

Job Description

The Data Center Infrastructure Construction team at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is a dynamic group of professionals dedicated to delivering state-of-the-art data center facilities at scale and at pace. This team comprises experienced project managers, commissioning experts, and construction specialists who work collaboratively to ensure the successful execution of complex data center construction projects. They bring a wealth of expertise in project management, technical design, and on-site construction, ensuring that our data centers meet the highest standards of quality, efficiency, and sustainability. By staying ahead of industry trends and incorporating innovative technologies, this team plays a crucial role in supporting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s data needs and driving our growth and success. We are seeking an experienced Principal Data Center Construction Manager to provide expert oversight and technical leadership for the construction of data centers performed by colocation providers. This high-level individual contributor role is critical in ensuring that projects meet schedule, quality, and design requirements through hands-on expertise, strategic coordination, and independent execution.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

  1. This role will focus on the base building and MEP infrastructure portions of the project.

  2. Project Oversight: Lead and manage the construction of data centers by colocation providers, ensuring all projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.

  3. Schedule Management: Develop and maintain detailed project schedules, coordinating with colocation providers to ensure timely delivery of milestones.

  4. Risk Evaluation: analyze projects independently to evaluate the risk profiles associated with timely delivery, address gaps in risk identification and mitigation and inform the business of associated potential impacts.

  5. Tenant Fit Out Integration: Work closely throughout design, construction, and commissioning to fully coordinate and integrate the separate scope of tenant fit out projects with the base building projects.

  6. Quality Assurance: Implement and oversee quality control processes to ensure all construction activities meet design specifications and industry standards.

  7. Design Coordination: Collaborate with design teams to ensure that construction activities align with the approved design plans and specifications.

  8. Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the primary point of contact between the company and colocation providers, facilitating clear and effective communication.

  9. Risk Management: Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to ensure project success.

  10. Compliance: Ensure all construction activities comply with relevant regulations, codes, and standards.

  11. Provide ongoing colocation Provider evaluation input for continuous improvement

  12. Regular project visits to ensure schedule, coordination, and quality will be required throughout the life of the project on a regular basis. 50% + travel required.

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

  1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

  2. Short term disability and long term disability

  3. Life insurance and AD&D

  4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

  5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

  6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

  7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

  8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

  9. 11 paid holidays

  10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

  11. Paid parental leave

  12. Adoption assistance

  13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan

  14. Financial planning and group legal

  15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC5

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How this job compares

Set against the 4,366 open Construction Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$126–264K/yr
  • Minnesota median$105–160K/yr49 salary ranges
  • US median$110–168K/yr2,260 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $195K, is 45% above the Minnesota median midpoint ($135K) — in the top quarter of Construction Manager salary ranges in Minnesota.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 68 open Construction Manager jobs in Minnesota and 4,366 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Minnesota
Experience
Construction Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 5 to 10 years (3,718 postings).
Education
1,773 of the 4,366 open Construction Manager jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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