Sr Director, Data Center Infrastructure Management, Intelligence & Controls

Job Description:

Flexential operates more than 40 data centers across roughly 18 markets and over 330 MW built or under development, with high-density, AI-ready capacity now central to our growth. The Senior Director, Data Center Intelligence & Controls owns the systems, data, and controls that tell us how every facility is performing: capacity, power topology, telemetry, controls, and the operational metrics the business bills and reports on.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can step into a complex, fast-moving environment, take ownership of the DCIM, capacity engineering, controls, and telemetry functions, and make them trustworthy, well-run, and resilient. You will stabilize the teams, harden the data behind billing and capacity decisions, make the function well-documented and resilient, and build the operational foundation for a software-defined, digital-twin future. It is high-impact work with a clear line of sight to defining how Flexential runs its fleet.

DCIM and data ownership

• Own the system of record. Take ownership of the DCIM platform as the authoritative source for capacity, assets, power topology, and facility state, and keep it accurate and trusted across operations, engineering, sales, and finance.
• Harden data quality. Establish telemetry standards, point naming, and data-quality governance, and grade data health so issues are found and fixed before they cause revenue loss or bad decisions.
• Drive consolidation. Begin unifying the configuration management database and integrating disconnected systems toward a single source of operational truth.

Capacity engineering and commercial support

• Run capacity and forecasting. Own capacity planning, forecasting, and optimization across power, space, and cooling, including utility load-ramp forecasts.
• Manage reserves and utilization. Reconcile committed, drawn, and utilized power and adjust reserves to protect both sellable inventory and uptime.
• Support the deal with data. Run technical design reviews, cage plots, and density-feasibility analysis, giving the business a clear, data-backed view of capacity.

Controls, telemetry, and metering

• Stabilize controls. Take ownership of building automation and controls, set standards for sequences of operation and alarm management, and tune the mechanical and electrical environment for reliability and efficiency.
• Own the instrumentation layer. Run branch-circuit monitoring, environmental monitoring, and power-data acquisition, and ensure every usage-based site is fully instrumented before customer turn-up.
• Close metering gaps. Drive the program to close remaining metering and monitoring gaps, treating data integrity as a revenue-protection function.

Billing data, metrics, and risk

• Protect billing integrity. Own the data behind PUE-based billing, usage, PUE, and rate, with anomaly detection, variance flagging, and reconstruction methods that prevent revenue leakage.
• Own the operational metrics. Utilization, salable and built capacity, forecast accuracy, automation coverage, PUE and WUE, and the metrics that feed financial and capital reporting.
• Identify risk in the data. Use operational data and modeling, including redundancy and failover modeling (N+1, 2N), to identify risk early and route clear, prioritized actions to teams so issues are remediated proactively.

Leadership

• Stabilize and build the team. Take ownership of the capacity engineering, operations engineering, controls, and telemetry groups, clarify roles, close gaps, and build a unit that operates with discipline and pride.
• Build a resilient function. Document and cross-train so the function’s knowledge is well-distributed across the team, and partner across Facilities, Engineering, Construction, Sales, Product, IT, and Finance.

What you bring

• Hands-on leadership of controls, BAS, DCIM, capacity engineering, or telemetry teams in mission-critical environments.
• Deep, practical command of BAS and controls, telemetry, and DCIM; you can read a trend log, a one-line, and a capacity model and know what they are telling you.
• Strong grasp of MEP systems, switchgear, UPS, generators, chillers, CRAH and CRAC units, and PDUs, and how they behave under load and during failover.
• Working knowledge of colocation capacity mechanics: reserves, utilization, and PUE-based billing.
• Experience with DCIM and branch-circuit and environmental monitoring, and integrating systems over BACnet, Modbus, and SNMP.
• A record of inheriting complex environments and leaving them measurably better, with cleaner data, calmer floors, and stronger teams, plus credibility with frontline technicians and shift leads.

What success looks like in 12 months

• First 90 days: you have assessed every inherited function, system, and data source, delivered a candid current-state and stabilization plan, and made the function more resilient through documentation and cross-training.
• By month 6: telemetry, metering, and data-quality governance are live and trusted, PUE-based billing data and capacity reserves are accurate and defensible, and data-driven risk identification runs on a dependable cadence so teams can act early.
• By month 12: DCIM and CMDB consolidation are underway, controls are measurably more reliable and efficient, metering gaps are closed across usage-based sites, and you have put forward the roadmap toward the software-defined, digital-twin target state.

Base Pay Range: Annualized/Hourly salary range offered for this position is estimated to be $195,000 - $235,000. However, the actual pay range depends on each candidate’s experience, location, and qualifications. 

Variable Pay: Discretionary annual bonus, based on personal and company performance. 

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Not meeting every single requirement? No problem! We are looking for candidates who possess unique skills that set them apart from the rest. If you're enthusiastic about this role and believe you have the skills and abilities that would make you successful, don't hesitate to apply today!

Benefits of working at Flexential:  
•    Medical, Telehealth, Dental and Vision  
•    401(k)  
•    Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)  
•    Life and AD&D  
•    Short Term and Long-Term disability  
•    Flex Paid Time Off (PTO)  
•    Leave of Absence  
•    Employee Assistance Program  
•    Wellness Program  
•    Rewards and Recognition Program  

Benefits are subject to change at the Company's discretion.  

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