Director APAC Data Center Planning and Delivery Data Center Planning and Delivery

The AWS Data Center Planning and Delivery team is seeking a passionate talented and proven executive responsible for delivering end to end data center across the Asia Pacific and China (APAC) region.

Based in Sydney Singapore or Tokyo the individual will be responsible for high quality ontime and costefficient delivery of data center capacity for all regions in the Asia Pacific geography. The Director of Data Center planning and delivery will lead the teams that own new data center supply utilities negotiation and provision construction (including upgrades and remediation of older facilities) and delivery from initial planning through to final handoff to our Operations teams. This role is responsible for understanding and aligning the functions of internal customers business functions (finance procurement legal etc. external providers and internal delivery teams (e.g. networking) to enable ontime and rightsized delivery of new data center capacity.

The scope of the role begins with early expansion planning in both new and existing AWS regions which includes a feasibility analysis to analyze compare and approve plans and associated build timelines for both new infrastructure owned or leased by Amazon and existing Colocation facilities. This role evaluates multiple factors and alternatives for expansion prior to approving a final plan of record to provide for the customerdriven need for capacity including utility delivery (power water sewer and fiber) long lead equipment availability the construction of physical plant infrastructure (land site alterations buildings and interior mechanical and electrical facilities to support computer servers) and external vendors who provide both the equipment and services to successfully complete those facilities using Amazon generated and approved technical designs and specifications.

Following successful planning a commitment given by this leader becomes the plan of record for all data center builds in the region and guides teams to complete the facilities called for in the time frame in which they are needed. Once committed this role requires regional knowledge of all inflight projects potential major risks and indepth knowledge of ongoing issues and remediation efforts. After initiation ongoing monitoring is required to ensure endtoend data center is on track to meet the original commitments including ongoing adjustments made to meet continuously changing business demand.


Key job responsibilities
The ideal candidate will possess a unique combination of business acumen technical expertise and global infrastructure experience. You should have a proven track record of leading strategic infrastructure initiatives managing largescale technology projects and negotiating highvalue contracts. Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills are essential as you will be interfacing with both technical and executivelevel teams as well as leading a diverse multi located team of professionals. This is an exciting opportunity to play a strategic role in shaping the future of AWSs global data center infrastructure. If youre a seasoned executive with the vision and skills to drive transformative change wed love to hear from you.

oBachelors Degree in Engineering Business Supply Chain or related domain expertise
o15 years of technology or infrastructure program or project management experience
o10 years managing large organizations
oExperience working in an international projects environment with diverse legislative requirements.


o10 years in leading projects related to infrastructure development expansion and/or capacity planning
o10 years of experience with data center technologies and leading technical teams
oExperience in managing data center infrastructure deployments
oExperience in management of complex high value technology infrastructure projects.
oAdvanced Degree in Engineering Business Supply Chain or related domain expertise
oMBA preferred or related domain expertise in financial analysis
oExperience generating automated metrics to measure program / project delivery and reliability
oUnderstanding of global norms culture and world politics.
oExperience with data extraction and modeling using SQL Power Query Python or similar tools


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