Director, Data Products & Engineering, Operations NA

About this role

About Vantage

Vantage powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Operational Excellence   Department  

The Operational Excellence team establishes the systems, practices, and culture that enable Vantage to operate at scale across North America with consistency, quality, and speed. We strengthen the scalability and effectiveness of NA Operations - including Mission Critical Operations, Sales Engineering, Customer Experience, and Design Integration - by partnering with business leaders and global functions to standardize how we work, drive process excellence, deliver strategic programs, enable data-driven decisions, and embed continuous improvement and transformation.  

Operational Excellence at Vantage is hands-on and   impact-driven . We blend delivery discipline, systems thinking, and best-in-class operational practices to address root causes, improve efficiency, and accelerate outcomes. Our team members lead high-impact initiatives, shape cross-functional ways of working, and directly influence how Vantage delivers on its growth, operational, and customer commitments.  

Position Overview  

This role will be based in Denver, CO. Following our flexible work policy (3 days in-office, 2 days flexible).   

The Director, Operations Data Products & Engineering   leads the data product management and technical delivery capability for North America Operations. This role owns the integrated Operations data product portfolio and roadmap, translating operational priorities and intelligence requirements into trusted, scalable, and reusable products that improve how Operations plans, executes, predicts, and makes decisions.  

Reporting to the Vice President of Operational Excellence, the Director builds and leads a multidisciplinary capability spanning data product management, data engineering, analytics engineering, business intelligence, governance, and solution delivery. As the portfolio evolves, the Director may establish dedicated product leadership for priority domains based on their scale, complexity, and strategic importance.  

Serving as the primary Operations counterpart to Global Data & AI, the Director aligns Operations priorities with enterprise data and AI roadmaps, platforms, architecture, standards, and services. The role is accountable for Operations domain products, technical priorities, delivery outcomes, and value realization while leveraging, rather than duplicating, enterprise capabilities.  

  Essential Job Functions  

  Data Product Strategy and Portfolio Management  

• Own and manage the integrated Operations data product portfolio and multiyear roadmap.  

• Translate Operations strategy, business priorities, and intelligence requirements into coordinated product strategies, use cases, investment priorities, and delivery plans.  

• Establish a product management operating model with clear roles, decision rights, lifecycle practices, and governance across product, engineering, business, and enterprise technology teams.  

• Establish and oversee dedicated product leadership for priority domains as the portfolio matures, with accountability for product vision, roadmaps, requirements, adoption, and value realization.  

• Implement a disciplined intake, evaluation, prioritization, and sequencing process for Operations data, analytics, engineering, automation, and AI needs.  

• Make portfolio investment and capacity decisions based on operational value, strategic alignment, feasibility, risk, readiness, reuse, and available resources.  

• Balance immediate delivery priorities with foundational investments in scalability, data quality, interoperability, and future capabilities.  

• Manage products throughout their lifecycle, from discovery and development through adoption, enhancement, sustainment, consolidation, or retirement.  

Data Product and Engineering Delivery  

• Lead the design and delivery of Operations data products, including governed pipelines, domain data models, semantic layers, telemetry integrations, analytics, dashboards, intelligent workflows, and AI-ready datasets.  

• Translate product strategies and business requirements into scalable technical solutions in partnership with Global Data & AI, Enterprise Architecture, platform owners, and source-system teams.  

• Establish cross-functional product teams aligned to prioritized operational outcomes, with coordinated roadmaps, backlogs, release plans, and success measures.  

• Develop reusable technical patterns and shared components that reduce fragmented development, one-off reporting, and duplicative solutions.  

• Establish development and lifecycle practices that support product reliability, performance, security, scalability, interoperability, maintainability, and user experience.  

• Identify and resolve delivery dependencies, capacity constraints, architectural decisions, and cross-product conflicts.  

• Oversee external delivery partners and vendors, ensuring accountability for technical quality, product outcomes, knowledge transfer, and sustainable internal ownership.  

Global Data & AI Alignment  

• Serve as the primary Operations partner to Global Data & AI, representing Operations priorities, dependencies, capacity requirements, and future capability   needs .  

• Align the Operations data product roadmap with enterprise architecture, data platforms, shared engineering services, governance standards, security requirements, and AI strategy.  

• Maintain clear accountability within the hub-and-spoke operating model, with Global Data & AI owning shared enterprise platforms and services and Operations owning

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