Principal Technical Program Manager – Data Center Strategy & Transformation at Siemens Industry Software Inc. — Remote, USA | Base Career | Base Career
Lead end-to-end planning and execution of complex, multi-phase data center and critical-infrastructure programs.
Develop data center consolidation, migration, modernization, capacity, resilience, and lifecycle strategies.
Establish program objectives, delivery roadmaps, workstreams, milestones, dependencies, governance structures, and success criteria.
Convert strategic requirements into executable project scopes, schedules, resource plans, budgets, and risk-management plans.
Lead infrastructure assessments to evaluate current-state architecture, operational maturity, service resilience, capacity, technical debt, and business-continuity risks.
Identify gaps between contracted scope, stated requirements, and discovered operational or technical needs.
Evaluate program alternatives and clearly communicate cost, schedule, risk, operational, and technical tradeoffs to leadership.
Maintain accountability for overall program performance while coordinating multiple projects, vendors, and technical disciplines.
Data Center Design and Infrastructure Coordination
Coordinate the development and review of high-level data center infrastructure architectures and design requirements.
Ensure that compute, storage, virtualization, network, cybersecurity, facilities, cloud, and application requirements are incorporated into the overall solution.
Facilitate technical alignment among data center architects, facilities engineers, network and security teams, platform teams, application owners, operations, and external consultants.
Support active-active, primary-secondary, disaster-recovery, high-performance computing, and critical-production infrastructure strategies.
Review design assumptions for availability, scalability, maintainability, redundancy, recoverability, capacity, and operational readiness.
Identify infrastructure dependencies and integration requirements across network, security, compute, storage, application, and facility environments.
Support the development of migration architectures, sequencing plans, coexistence strategies, rollback plans, and cutover requirements.
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The role does not replace the licensed architects or engineers responsible for detailed electrical, mechanical, structural, fire-protection, or code-compliance design. It provides technical program leadership and ensures that those disciplines are properly coordinated.
Migration and Deployment Management
Develop and govern migration frameworks for critical applications, infrastructure platforms, and data center services.
Lead deployment planning for greenfield and brownfield data center environments.
Ensure infrastructure, network, security, operations, facilities, and application teams are aligned before migration or production activation.
Establish formal entry and exit criteria for design, build, testing, commissioning, migration, and operational handover phases.
Track implementation defects, open risks, incomplete deliverables, and operational-readiness gaps through final closure.
Coordinate business-continuity and disaster-recovery planning for critical services.
The candidate’s background includes leading active-active greenfield data center deployments, establishing migration processes for more than 10,000 critical applications, and managing major infrastructure programs with substantial budgets and extended delivery schedules.
Network, Security, and Technology Integration
Provide program-level oversight for enterprise data center network and security architecture.
Create consistent program-management processes and reusable organizational assets across portfolios and business units.
The candidate has demonstrated experience developing governance frameworks, managing program changes and tradeoffs, coordinating subject-matter experts, and reporting schedule, budget, quality, and risk to senior leadership.
Stakeholder and Team Leadership
Build strong working relationships with CIOs, directors, senior managers, engineering leaders, application owners, operations teams, facilities organizations, procurement, finance, and external partners.
Lead multidisciplinary teams without relying solely on direct reporting authority.
Clarify roles, responsibilities, interfaces, decision rights, and escalation paths across program participants.
Promote accountability, transparency, customer advocacy, continuous improvement, and high delivery standards.
Mentor project managers, technical leads, analysts, and other program team members.
Resolve conflicts constructively while protecting agreed program objectives, governance, and technical requirements.
Required Qualifications
Ten or more years of progressive experience leading enterprise infrastructure, data center, network, cloud, or technology-transformation programs.
Strong knowledge of data center architecture, enterprise network infrastructure, cybersecurity, compute, storage, virtualization, and disaster-recovery concepts.
Experience leading data center consolidation, migration, modernization, greenfield, or major infrastructure deployment initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to develop program strategies, scopes, schedules, budgets, resource plans, governance structures, and risk-management frameworks.
Experience managing program budgets, forecasts, commercial risks, and significant technology portfolios.
Experience supporting or leading RFI, RFP, SOW, vendor-selection, and contract-scope activities.
Strong executive communication, facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, and conflict-resolution skills.
Ability to travel domestically and internationally based on program requirements.
Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information technology, business, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with active-active data center architectures and large-scale application migrations.
Experience with high-performance computing and other business-critical infrastructure environments.
Experience with Cisco networking, SD-WAN, software-defined networking, Palo Alto security platforms, BGP, OSPF, and enterprise remote-access solutions.
Familiarity with IT service management, business continuity, disaster recovery, ERP, and infrastructure lifecycle management.
Experience working with colocation providers, engineering consultants, general contractors, cloud providers, and managed-service organizations.
PMP, PgMP, ITIL, TOGAF, CDCP, CDFOM, or comparable technical or program-management certification.
Experience working in global, matrixed organizations.
Experience managing programs valued at $100 million or more.
The resume supports extensive cross-functional leadership, formal project planning, RAID management, infrastructure assessments, executive reporting, and development of procurement documentation such as RFIs, RFPs, and SOWs.
Key Performance Indicators
Success in the role will be evaluated through:
Achievement of program milestones within approved scope, schedule, and budget.
Quality and completeness of infrastructure requirements and delivery plans.
Timely identification and mitigation of program risks and dependencies.
Accuracy and transparency of executive reporting.
Successful completion of data center migrations and production cutovers.
Reduction of unplanned scope changes and unresolved design gaps.
Stakeholder confidence and effectiveness of cross-functional coordination.
Vendor performance and contractual compliance.
Operational readiness and successful transition to support teams.
Delivery of measurable improvements in infrastructure resilience, scalability, capacity, security, cost, or service performance.
Compensation & Benefits
The salary range for this position is $154,200 to $277,600 and this role is eligible to earn incentive compensation (10-15%). The actual compensation offered is based on the successful candidate's job-related skills, experience, and relevant education/training. Siemens offers health and wellness benefits to employees; you can access the benefits available in your country via the link: https://jobs.sw.siemens.com/benefits/
Equal Employment Opportunity
The company is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and employees. Employment decisions will be based on qualifications, experience, business requirements, and demonstrated ability to perform the responsibilities of the position.
This position will be subject to U.S. export control requirements under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Employment is contingent on either verifying the U.S. Person status or obtaining any necessary export license.
Why us?
Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software. A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow!
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