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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Addison, TX, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Thornton, CO, USA. Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program management.
- Experience with Electrical Engineering for construction projects in a Data Center colocation facility.
Preferred qualifications:
- 2 years of experience managing cross-functional or cross-team projects.
- Experience evaluating and designing data center infrastructure.
- Experience with financial planning for data center construction.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a data-driven analytical approach to solving challenges.
- Excellent organizational, multitasking, and prioritization skills with attention to detail.
Google's projects, like our users, span the globe and require managers to keep the big picture in focus while being able to dive into the unique engineering challenges we face daily. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you lead complex, multi-disciplinary engineering projects using your engineering expertise. You plan requirements with internal customers and usher projects through the entire project lifecycle. This includes managing project schedules, identifying risks and clearly communicating them to project stakeholders. You're equally at home explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
Using your extensive technical and leadership expertise, you manage projects of various size and scope, identifying future opportunities, improving processes and driving the technical directions of your programs.
Network Infrastructure Engineering is responsible for the evaluation, design, and construction of Google's space in colocation facilities across the globe.
Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.
- Communicate with partners and internal business owners to collect drivers and deadlines for delivering colocation space and associated infrastructure.
- Design spaces that meet current needs and maintain flexibility for the future.
- Create project plans that identify resource needs.
- Review proposals, costs, and submittals for colocation space builds, and evaluate existing colocation facilities against internal reliability requirements.
- Understand space and power management for colocation environments, and maintain technical relationships with vendors and contractors.
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