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Senior Director, Datacenter End-to-End Build Delivery

Microsoft
$165,600.00 - $296,400.00 / yr
United States, Texas, San Antonio
Jul 13, 2026
Overview Join us in tackling challenges that matter-because changing the world starts with bold ideas and committed teams. As the Senior Director, Datacenter End-to-End Build Delivery, you will take a lead role in a group that owns the entire lifecycle of Microsoft datacenter delivery. You will guide your team through the complete program management process for building and delivering world-class datacenters-starting with design and approval through to construction, fit-out, commissioning, and handoff to operations. In this highly visible and impactful role within Cloud Operations and Innovation, you will be responsible for managing schedules, ensuring cross-functional execution, and mitigating risks for capital build programs. This is an opportunity to play a critical role in getting datacenters built, online, and ready to deliver for customers who depend on Microsoft's evolving cloud infrastructure. Your leadership on the Datacenter end-to-end build delivery team will be pivotal as Microsoft undergoes the construction of its largest datacenter to date, increasing our ability to serve growing customer demand-especially for artificial intelligence-driven workloads. If you are passionate about driving execution and transforming cloud capacity at scale, we invite you to help shape the future of cloud infrastructure. At Microsoft, our mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more guides how we partner with customers to deliver trusted, impactful solutions. With a growthmindset culture, we innovate responsibly and measure success by shared progress, people, teams, and customers. Join us to do meaningful work that changes the world and helps shape what's next for everyone. Responsibilities Act as a subject matter expert, defining and prioritizing end-to-end program goals across multiple products or functional areas such as infrastructure, services, and systems, with a focus on risk management and data-driven delivery. Provide strategic guidance to cross-divisional teams and stakeholders, developing processes and operating models to ensure alignment in program delivery for complex capital programs. Oversee the tracking, coordination, and communication of project schedules, ensuring accountability for dependencies, timely execution, and issue mitigation across teams. Drive the integration of best practices and state-of-the-art tools for program management, including adopting automation and performance metrics to optimize build delivery. Guide and develop program management talent, ensuring effective people leadership and cross-functional project execution. Qualifications Required/Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's Degree AND 8+ years experience in engineering, product/technical program management, data analysis, or product development OR equivalent experience. 3+ years people management experience. 6+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. Background Check Requirements: Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter. Preferred Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, Construction Management AND 20+ years experience in planning, project management, and execution across large-scale complex organizations OR equivalent experience. 5+ years people management experience 8+ years of experience managing cross-functional and/or cross-team projects. Demonstrates deep subject matter expertise on key functional areas of engineering, procurement, construction, mechanical, electrical, networking, and building automation systems. Comfortable working at the Executive level within a highly matrixed organization. Experience driving execution with large complex infrastructure projects. Technical program management experience managing scope, schedule, budget, contracts, quality, people, risk, and communications. Demonstrated leadership skills and experience working with large and diverse teams. Understanding of business and financial objectives. #COICareers \| #EPCCareers \| #DCDCareers \| #Pecos Technical Program Management M6 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $165,600 - $296,400 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $220,800 - $331,200 per year. Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here: https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.