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# Senior Principal, Data Center Delivery

- **Company:** Oracle
- **Location:** Denver, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $146,300.0 - $306,400.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Centers, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- **Published:** October 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/4FE40CBCDC2649FE8FF6572CB1C80C2E/job/

## About the Role

* Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Real Estate, Construction Project Management, Architecture, Engineering, or a related field, plus 10 or more years of relevant experience; or equivalent practical experience.
 * Seven or more years of experience supporting data center projects.
 * Experience with data center lease agreements, site selection for industrial-scale projects, real estate evaluation, acquisition, development, and construction.
 * Experience supporting complex negotiations, contract formation, and contract negotiations.
 * Knowledge of the data center industry, regional operators, and market dynamics.
 * Knowledge of real estate and mission-critical environments, particularly data centers.
 * Understanding of lease negotiations, construction contracts, commissioning processes, utility agreements, sustainable development practices, and financial modeling.
 * General understanding of hybrid data center real estate solutions, including build-to-suit and colocation models.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Background in real estate development and land acquisition, including familiarity with local laws, permitting, and entitlement processes.
 * Qualifications or experience in construction contract management.
 * Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

## Description

The Senior Principal, Data Center Delivery is a senior individual contributor role responsible for supporting the due diligence, planning, programming, and contracting of colocation and build-to-suit data center capacity across a large-scale delivery program. This role partners closely with internal stakeholders, lease providers, utilities, and other external partners to enable timely, scalable, and commercially sound capacity delivery.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

 * Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including demand planning, site acquisition, legal, finance, energy, fiber, engineering, procurement, contracting, construction, commissioning, low-voltage, networking, security, hardware, and operations teams.
 * Develop and manage relationships with external lease providers, utility providers, consultants, vendors, and other project stakeholders.
 * Support the leasing and acquisition of data center capacity across the program, including build-to-suit and colocation solutions.
 * Partner with the site acquisition team to support commercial and legal negotiations and lead due diligence related to project scope, schedule, and budget for projects of approximately 1 GW in scale.
 * Contribute to site selection, market evaluation, and regional strategy development.
 * Program projects to meet OCI and customer requirements for schedule, capacity, and phased delivery.
 * Provide subject matter expertise and recommendations to enable timely, well-informed decisions.
 * Support high-priority escalations after projects transition to the execution team.
 * Develop scalable processes, models, and tools that enable rapid delivery and adapt to changing customer demand.
 * Create strategic planning documents that inform long-term regional capacity planning and align with business objectives.
 * Prepare and present project updates, recommendations, and approval materials for leadership.
 * Support lease transactions, including specialized projects, facility upgrades, renewals, amendments, and other contractual modifications.
 * Coordinate due diligence for multiple lease projects under aggressive timelines, working across internal teams, consultants, vendors, and external stakeholders.
 * Establish and develop partnerships in both existing and emerging markets.
 * Maintain accurate planning-system data, including cost, capacity, schedules, and contract terms, and ensure an effective handoff to execution teams.
 * Improve and mature programmatic processes and procedures, including repeatable lease templates, to streamline due diligence and contract delivery, improve communication, and reduce turnaround times.