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Role Overview
As Senior Director, Data Center Training, you will own the global training strategy, operating model, and execution framework that prepares Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center teams to operate safely, reliably, and consistently at scale. This role is accountable for building training standards that support technical qualification, site readiness, maintenance execution, emergency response, safety, compliance, and leadership development across mission-critical environments.
You will lead training leaders, program managers, instructional designers, technical SMEs, site operations partners, and vendor contributors to deliver a scalable learning ecosystem for new sites, expanding campuses, and steady-state operations. The role requires senior-level judgment, strong operational credibility, and the ability to turn field experience into repeatable standards that improve uptime, safety, audit readiness, and team capability.
Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise training strategy for OCI data center operations, facilities, deployment, reliability, and site support functions.
• Build and govern role-based training paths for technicians, engineers, managers, site leaders, deployment teams, and support functions.
• Lead a distributed training organization through managers and senior program leaders, including staffing, coaching, performance management, and capability planning.
• Establish qualification standards for technical operations, MOP/SOP/EOP execution, incident response, switching, maintenance, safety, and operational readiness.
• Partner with Data Center Operations, Engineering, Reliability, Construction, Commissioning, Site Deployment, Safety, Security, and HR to align training with operating risks and business priorities.
• Develop scalable curricula, labs, simulations, field qualification records, train-the-trainer models, and recurring proficiency checks.
• Ensure training content reflects current procedures, equipment configurations, lessons learned, audit findings, safety expectations, and operational standards.
• Create training governance cadences, dashboards, KPIs, completion tracking, and executive reporting for workforce readiness.
• Drive training readiness for new site launches, expansions, critical remediation programs, and major operational changes.
• Identify capability gaps across regions and partner with functional leaders to prioritize corrective training, coaching, and standardization.
• Oversee vendor and third-party training quality where external partners support technical instruction, certification, or workforce onboarding.
• Promote a culture of operational discipline, continuous learning, safety, and accountability across the data center organization.

Responsibilities
Ideal Candidate Profile

• 15+ years of experience in technical training, data center operations, mission-critical facilities, reliability, engineering, construction operations, or workforce development.
• 7+ years of people leadership experience, including leading managers, senior program leaders, or distributed technical training teams.
• Experience building enterprise training programs for hyperscale data centers, utilities, industrial operations, critical facilities, manufacturing, military, or other high-reliability environments.
• Strong understanding of data center electrical, mechanical, controls, safety, maintenance, and emergency response workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to build operating models, governance mechanisms, dashboards, training standards, and executive-ready reporting.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, operations, education, organizational development, facilities management, or equivalent practical experience.

Skills and Competencies

• Senior leadership presence with the ability to align executives, regional leaders, site teams, and technical SMEs.
• Strong training architecture and program governance capability across complex global operations.
• Operational judgment grounded in safety, reliability, uptime, maintenance quality, and field execution.
• Ability to translate technical risk, incident learnings, and operational standards into effective training products.
• Strong team development, coaching, change leadership, and performance management capability.
• High accountability for measurable training outcomes, readiness visibility, and continuous improvement.

Preferred Skills / Certifications

• Experience with learning management systems, qualification tracking, training dashboards, and workforce analytics.
• Familiarity with data center MEP systems, BMS/EPMS, CMMS, MOP/SOP/EOP governance, incident response, and safety programs.
• Instructional design, ATD, CPTD, PMP, Six Sigma, OSHA, NFPA, NETA, CMRP, or related technical training certification.
• Experience standing up training programs for new sites, new regions, or rapidly scaling technical organizations.
• Experience supporting regulated, high-availability, or safety-critical environments.

***This role is onsite in Nashville, TN***
Physical Demands / Work Environment
This role operates across office, remote collaboration, training, and active data center environments. The position may require travel to data center campuses, training sites, vendor facilities, and operational readiness reviews. Site visits may involve walking large facilities, standing for extended periods, using stairs, and following all safety, PPE, security, and access-control requirements.
Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

• Global impact at cloud scale supporting mission-critical infrastructure for customers around the world.
• Technically rigorous environment where reliability, safety, documentation, and operational readiness matter every day.
• Culture built on ownership, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and cross-functional partnership.
• Long-term career development across cloud infrastructure, data center operations, construction delivery, and global portfolio leadership.

Qualifications
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: $146,300 to $306,400 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 - M5
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