Director of Building Automation (Nashville, TN)

Role Overview

As Director of Building Automation, you will define and govern automation strategy for OCI’s global data center portfolio. This role sets standards and direction for BMS, controls architecture, cybersecurity, and analytics that underpin safe and efficient operations at scale.  This role oversees the execution of organizational strategy around evaluating scoped sites against Oracle’s requirements for data centers. Ensures implementation organizational collaboration strategy with multidisciplinary internal and external teams to design the power, cooling, and air flow designs for the data center infrastructure. Supervises the execution of organizational processes around failure analyses and responses to emergencies. Manages the implementation of assessment processes for data center infrastructure and for the evaluation of plans provided by the Build and Engineering Services (BES) team. Ensures the implementation of organizational strategy around determining cooling requirements and architectural tradeoffs to ensure the white space design meets their requirements to manage variables such as heat, humidity, and air flow. Influences organizational research goals around innovative new data center designs, materials, and/or methods.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities Lead strategy and standards for BMS, DCIM, and automation systems across the fleet. Oversee design, integration, and commissioning of major automation and controls initiatives. Define alarm philosophy, controls architecture, and cybersecurity requirements for OT systems. Drive adoption of smart building technologies, analytics, and digital twin capabilities. Manage vendors and develop technical talent; champion continuous improvement. Ideal Candidate Profile Extensive experience in controls engineering, automation strategy, or mission-critical facility automation leadership. Deep knowledge of BMS/SCADA/DCS platforms, multi-vendor environments, and standards development. Skills and Competencies

Key Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Lead strategy and standards for BMS, DCIM, and automation systems across the fleet.

• Lead strategy and standards for BMS, DCIM, and automation systems across the fleet.

Oversee design, integration, and commissioning of major automation and controls initiatives.

• Oversee design, integration, and commissioning of major automation and controls initiatives.

Define alarm philosophy, controls architecture, and cybersecurity requirements for OT systems.

• Define alarm philosophy, controls architecture, and cybersecurity requirements for OT systems.

Drive adoption of smart building technologies, analytics, and digital twin capabilities.

• Drive adoption of smart building technologies, analytics, and digital twin capabilities.

Manage vendors and develop technical talent; champion continuous improvement.

• Manage vendors and develop technical talent; champion continuous improvement.

Ideal Candidate Profile

Ideal Candidate Profile

Extensive experience in controls engineering, automation strategy, or mission-critical facility automation leadership.

• Extensive experience in controls engineering, automation strategy, or mission-critical facility automation leadership.

Deep knowledge of BMS/SCADA/DCS platforms, multi-vendor environments, and standards development.

• Deep knowledge of BMS/SCADA/DCS platforms, multi-vendor environments, and standards development.

Skills and Competencies

Skills and Competencies

Visionary technical leadership with strong execution discipline. Ability to align engineering, IT, security, and operations around common standards. NOTE:  This is a full-time onsite role in Nashville, TN. Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure? Global impact at scale: Contribute directly to how mission-critical OCI data centers operate across regions and continents, influencing infrastructure reliability, security, sustainability, and long-term capacity growth. Technically rigorous environment: Work alongside experienced engineers, automation specialists, and compliance teams in a rapidly scaling hyperscale cloud infrastructure, where disciplined execution and technical depth matter. Culture built on operational excellence: Join an organization that values safety, process rigor, clear accountability, and continuous improvement as foundational to protecting uptime and customer trust. Long-term career development: Benefit from internal mobility, role-based technical training, and development opportunities designed for professionals building long-term careers in cloud infrastructure and facilities operations. #LI-KT1

Visionary technical leadership with strong execution discipline.

• Visionary technical leadership with strong execution discipline.

Ability to align engineering, IT, security, and operations around common standards. NOTE:  This is a full-time onsite role in Nashville, TN.

• Ability to align engineering, IT, security, and operations around common standards.

NOTE:  This is a full-time onsite role in Nashville, TN.

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

Why Oracle Cloud Infrastructure?

Global impact at scale: Contribute directly to how mission-critical OCI data centers operate across regions and continents, influencing infrastructure reliability, security, sustainability, and long-term capacity growth.

• Global impact at scale: Contribute directly to how mission-critical OCI data centers operate across regions and continents, influencing infrastructure reliability, security, sustainability, and long-term capacity growth.

Technically rigorous environment: Work alongside experienced engineers, automation specialists, and compliance teams in a rapidly scaling hyperscale cloud infrastructure, where disciplined execution and technical depth matter.

• Technically rigorous environment: Work alongside experienced engineers, automation specialists, and compliance teams in a rapidly scaling hyperscale cloud infrastructure, where disciplined execution and technical depth matter.

Culture built on operational excellence: Join an organization that values safety, process rigor, clear accountability, and continuous improvement as foundational to protecting uptime and customer trust.

• Culture built on operational excellence: Join an organization that values safety, process rigor, clear accountability, and continuous improvement as foundational to protecting uptime and customer trust.

Long-term career development: Benefit from internal mobility, role-based technical training, and development opportunities designed for professionals building long-term careers in cloud infrastructure and facilities operations. #LI-KT1

• Long-term career development: Benefit from internal mobility, role-based technical training, and development opportunities designed for professionals building long-term careers in cloud infrastructure and facilities operations.

#LI-KT1

Requirements & Qualifications

Career Level - M4

Application Instructions

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