Job Description

• Completed Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management or equivalent work experience. • 15+ years of experience negotiating construction, procurement and labor contracts as well as interacting with owners’ representation that procures significant long lead equipment. • Experience leading and managing a global team in multiple time zones. • Launching physical infrastructure and/or industrial facilities in new countries • Experience delivering physical infrastructure and/or industrial facilities at scale.

Job summary
Since early 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has provided companies of all sizes with an infrastructure platform in the cloud. Using AWS, companies can requisition compute power, storage, and other services – gaining access to a global computing infrastructure that is the backbone of Amazon.com’s multi-billion-dollar retail business. Today, AWS is the world leader in providing a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud powering for hundreds of thousands of businesses, from start-ups to multi-national corporations, to governments around the world.

AWS Infrastructure is seeking a passionate, talented, and proven senior leader responsible for the strategy and delivery of data center capacity across the region. The individual will be responsible for high quality, on-time and cost-efficient delivery of data center capacity for all existing and new regions in the Asia Pacific geography. This includes leading the activities on-site execution teams who perform the construction of new data centers, upgrade and repair existing data centers, install Building Management (BMS) and Electrical Power Monitoring Systems (EPMS) for Controls, including on-going operations support and system upgrades, and quality control testing and commissioning to ensure high quality standards are maintained – they own the quality, schedule and cost of physical data center infrastructure deployment, and coordinate the construction and controls installation with partners across infrastructure ahead of final hand-off to our Operations teams. This role will ideally be located in Singapore, Sydney or Tokyo.

The Director of DCCD, APJC provides the overall direction, guidance and vision for their teams, and ensures alignment with partners from other infrastructure organizations so that work is completed in accordance with safety, quality security standards, and meets delivery time frames to support the demand of our customers. Of particular importance is scaling to meet customer capacity, including new and expansion regions, and innovating to optimise the key performance metrics of safety, cost, speed, quality, which are the success measures of the team. This leader owns the responsibility of leading 150+ full time employees (FTEs), and oversees 100’s of vendor headcount located in 11 distinct regions in 8 existing countries in the APJC region, with the addition of several in flight new regions, who perform work of a total of 40 distinct Availability Zones (AZs) within those countries.

They are responsible for the hiring, growth, and development of APJC based staff, maintain an inclusive work environment, and ensure diversity in hiring and team growth. As the global rack footprint grows and facilities age, in addition to building out new data center physical plant facilities, the Director DCCD leads the team to innovate and create a means to rapidly remediate and upgrade existing DC’s including controls, electrical and mechanical systems, and are responsible for all quality control and testing efforts prior to hand-off. The individual leverages mechanisms for management of ground up construction operations and specialized work around live racks in active data centers, and extends best management practices to the vendors who perform the work. In addition, they maintain regional ownership and execution of New Region deployments and new products inAPJC. The Director DCCD leads their regional team’s actions using broad expertise and unique knowledge, country by country, that contributes to the development of objectives and principles to achieve business goals on a regional scale. They operate with autonomy and discretion, and develop long-term construction strategies that influence executive leadership decisions.
Once builds are committed, this role requires regional knowledge of all in-flight projects, potential major risks, and in-depth knowledge of ongoing issues and remediation efforts across a across multi-disciplined team. After initiation, ongoing monitoring is required to data center execution is on track to meet the original commitments, including ongoing adjustments made to meet continuously changing business demand.

Key job responsibilities
Execute. We are planning and building physical infrastructure at an unprecedented scale and pace. Failure to deliver data center capacity can constrain and impact our customer’s business. We have to deliver on our project and program due dates and commitments. The leader of this space needs to be constantly looking around corners, and adept at diving into the details to uncover and mitigate risk.

Build, develop and inspire a deep and talented bench of multi-disciplined technical leaders in the construction, critical projects and controls space.

Develop mechanisms to ensure that contracted resources (General Contractors, etc) deliver work to meet duration and quality targets, addressing and ensuring the correction of under-performance.

Technical Leadership

• Prepare reports, documents, and physical plant technical analysis to report to executive leadership or modify design requirements, equipment and services required
• Provide technical direction within the APJC Capacity Delivery team in the analysis of site-work, building design, master site layout details, schedules and materials, including long lead equipment used in data centers
• Drive innovative DCCD solutions that reduce cost, improve quality, and decrease the build timing.

Cost Ownership

• Oversee the development, competition, and negotiation of contracts with DCCD vendors and present formal documentation for approval
• Ensure that contracts are fit for purpose, cost effective and incorporate appropriate analysis
• Represent all DCCD team related activities in executive staff meetings, including funding requests, correction of errors explanations, and staffing support efforts
• Align DCCD cost estimating for future builds (including new APAC regions), cost controls, and procurement activities with on-the ground management of physical plant execution

Strategic Planning & Partner Development

• Ensure alignment and collaboration with all partner teams so that a full data center project is completed in an efficient and cost effective manner and outside partner teams (Cabling, Real Estate, Networking, Software)
• Work with multiple and varied permitting entities, at all governmental levels and in multiple countries, to obtain DCCD related permissions to build and occupy data centers

• Master’s degree in engineering or construction management
• Ability to effectively communicate Amazon requirements to various audiences (e.g. senior management, peers, public officials, vendors, etc.)
• Significant experience with technology companies and leveraging construction best practices to drive technology company needs.
• Exhibit in words and actions a passion for inclusion, diversity and equity. Be not only an active participant, but a leader on Amazon’s ID&E initiatives.
• High judgment leader who can frame investments and proposals that balance short and long-term goals
• Strong bias for action, including the ability to juggle multiple priorities and effectively deliver in a highly matrixed environment.