Senior Director, Power Systems Engineering – OCI Data Center Infrastructure
Oracle· Healthcare IT· Sep 4, 2026 · 2mo ago
United States
In office
Full-time
Director
$200K–$255K est.
15+ years exp
Job description
The organization will engage at the earliest stages of site development to evaluate power feasibility and risk, establish the technical strategy for delivering power to the site, and work directly with utilities and energy partners to develop solutions that improve capacity, resiliency, flexibility, and speed to market. The team will also own the engineering, modeling, testing, and technical validation necessary to ensure new power solutions perform as intended before they are deployed at scale.
This role will partner closely with OCI’s Energy Contracting, Design Engineering, Capacity Delivery, Construction, Commissioning, and Operations organizations. While commercial organizations retain ownership of energy procurement and commercial agreements, Power Systems Engineering will provide the technical analysis, requirements, system architecture, and engineering judgment necessary to inform those decisions.
The ideal candidate combines deep power systems expertise with demonstrated experience developing innovative utility and behind-the-meter power solutions, building strong engineering teams, and translating complex grid and generation challenges into scalable infrastructure strategies.
Key Responsibilities
Power Systems Engineering Leadership
• Build and lead OCI’s global Power Systems Engineering organization.
• Serve as OCI’s senior technical authority for utility-facing and campus-level power systems.
• Establish OCI’s long-term power systems engineering strategy supporting rapidly growing AI and cloud infrastructure requirements.
• Develop scalable technical solutions spanning utility supply, transmission, substations, energy storage, load management, on-site generation, and grid integration.
• Establish engineering standards, design philosophies, modeling requirements, technical acceptance criteria, and validation methodologies for power systems.
• Build a strong team of power systems engineers capable of solving both immediate deployment challenges and developing long-term fleet solutions.
• Create mechanisms to transition successful site-specific and first-of-a-kind solutions into repeatable global standards.
Utility Interconnection & Grid Engineering
• Lead technical engineering for OCI’s utility interconnections and grid integration globally.
• Engage with utilities, transmission providers, ISOs/RTOs, developers, and engineering partners to evaluate and develop power delivery solutions.
• Define technical requirements for transmission interfaces, substations, interconnection facilities, protection and controls, and campus electrical interfaces.
• Evaluate utility system capability, infrastructure constraints, reliability, power quality, fault duty, and expansion requirements.
• Identify technical alternatives that accelerate energization or unlock additional capacity where traditional utility solutions cannot meet OCI’s requirements.
• Partner with Energy Contracting on utility negotiations by providing technical analysis, engineering alternatives, and infrastructure requirements while maintaining clear separation between technical and commercial ownership.
Early Site Power Engineering
• Lead power-system technical due diligence for prospective OCI locations.
• Assess utility capacity, transmission availability, interconnection complexity, system reliability, power quality, infrastructure expansion requirements, and delivery risk.
• Develop conceptual power architectures and alternatives during site selection and early development.
• Identify technical constraints that could affect capacity, schedule, resiliency, or future campus expansion.
• Develop power strategies that create optionality when utility infrastructure or interconnection schedules present material risk.
• Partner with Real Estate, Site Development, Capacity Planning, and Energy Contracting to incorporate power-system feasibility into site and investment decisions.
BESS & Energy Storage
• Own OCI’s engineering strategy for battery energy storage systems and other energy-storage technologies .
• Develop use cases for BESS spanning resiliency, grid support, load management, transient response, capacity optimization, and utility integration.
• Establish technical requirements and architectures for integrating BESS with utility and campus electrical systems.
• Evaluate system sizing, controls, protection, operating modes, degradation, lifecycle performance, safety, and maintainability.
• Develop modeling and testing methodologies to validate performance under both grid and data center operating conditions.
• Partner with OEMs and technology providers to influence product development based on OCI’s scale and workload characteristics.
Utility Load Management & Grid-Support Solutions
• Partner with utilities to evaluate load curtailment, demand response, ramp-rate management, peak reduction, flexible load, and other grid-support mechanisms .
• Develop architectures that coordinate data center load, BESS, on-site generation, and utility supply.
• Quantify the capacity, reliability, and operational implications of proposed load-management strategies.
• Establish engineering guardrails that allow OCI to participate in utility programs without compromising customer workloads or infrastructure reliability.
• Partner with internal compute and infrastructure teams to understand evolving AI load characteristics and translate them into grid-interface requirements.
On-Site Generation Engineering
• Own the engineering strategy and technical requirements for on-site power generation .
• Evaluate and develop solutions using natural gas generation, fuel cells, microgrids, renewable generation, and emerging generation technologies.
• Lead electrical architecture development including generation configuration, synchronization, protection, controls, grounding, black-start capability, islanding, and utility interaction.
• Evaluate fuel supply, generation reliability, emissions constraints, maintainability, operating modes, and infrastructure redundancy as part of the overall system design.
• Establish standardized architectures where possible while supporting site-specific utility and regulatory requirements.
• Partner with Operations to ensure generation solutions can be safely operated and maintained throughout their lifecycle.
Power System Modeling & Analysis
• Establish advanced modeling capabilities using PSCAD, ETAP, SKM, EMTP , or equivalent engineering platforms.
• Lead load flow, short-circuit, protection coordination, harmonic, transient, dynamic stability, grounding, and arc-flash analysis as appropriate.
• Develop models that capture the increasingly dynamic behavior of AI data center loads and their interaction with the utility grid.
• Evaluate interactions between utility systems, generation, BESS, UPS technologies, and large dynamic compute loads.
• Use modeling to inform architecture decisions, technology selection, operating limits, and risk mitigation.
• Develop repeatable modeling methodologies and technical acceptance criteria across the global fleet.
Testing, Validation & FOAK Engineering
• Own the technical validation strategy for new power-system architectures and technologies.
• Develop First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) qualification plans before technologies are deployed broadly across OCI.
• Establish factory, laboratory, and site testing requirements for BESS, generation, grid-support equipment, protection systems, and emerging technologies.
• Develop test scenarios that validate normal operation, transitions, failure modes, recovery, dynamic response, and interactions between systems.
• Partner with OEMs, laboratories, utilities, Commissioning, and Operations to execute validation programs.
• Ensure engineering decisions are supported by modeling and empirical test evidence rather than vendor specifications alone.
• Establish criteria for transitioning technologies from prototype or FOAK deployment into approved fleet solutions.
Technology Strategy & OEM Engagement
• Evaluate emerging technologies that could materially improve power availability, resiliency, utilization, cost, or speed to market.
• Establish strategic technical relationships with utilities, OEMs, generation providers, BESS suppliers, and power-technology companies.
• Influence OEM product roadmaps based on OCI’s future power requirements.
• Develop technology qualification and adoption roadmaps.
• Balance innovation with the engineering rigor required for mission-critical infrastructure.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and standardize the power architectures deployed across OCI.
Required Experience
• 15+ years of progressive experience in power systems engineering, utility infrastructure, generation, transmission, energy storage, or large-scale mission-critical infrastructure .
• Significant experience leading senior power systems engineers and building high-performing technical organizations.
• Deep expertise in utility interconnections, transmission and distribution systems, substations, protection and controls, and power-system analysis.
• Demonstrated experience developing or integrating BESS, on-site generation, microgrids, load-management, or other behind-the-meter power solutions .
• Strong understanding of utility system planning, grid constraints, interconnection processes, and large-load customers.
• Experience developing and validating complex power architectures through modeling and physical testing.
• Demonstrated ability to influence utilities, OEMs, engineering partners, and senior internal stakeholders without relying solely on organizational authority.
• Ability to translate complex technical issues into clear engineering and business recommendations.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience supporting hundreds-of-MW to GW-scale infrastructure developments.
• Expertise with PSCAD, ETAP, SKM, EMTP, or equivalent power-system analysis tools.
• Experience with dynamic load modeling and the power characteristics of large AI or high-performance computing environments.
• Experience developing large-scale BESS, natural gas generation, fuel-cell, or microgrid solutions.
• Experience developing utility demand-response, flexible-load, or grid-support programs for large industrial customers.
• Experience establishing FOAK technology qualification and testing programs.
• Professional Engineer (PE) license and/or advanced degree in Electrical Engineering or a related discipline preferred.
Leadership Characteristics
• Recognized technical leader with deep credibility in power systems engineering.
• Able to move between long-term power strategy and detailed technical problem solving .
• Willing to challenge conventional utility and data center power architectures when existing solutions cannot meet OCI’s scale or speed requirements.
• Uses modeling, testing, and data to drive technical decisions.
• Builds strong partnerships while maintaining clear engineering standards and technical accountability.
• Develops senior technical talent and creates an environment where engineers challenge assumptions and solve problems collaboratively.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and developing solutions for power challenges that have not previously existed at this scale.
Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $182,000 to $414,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. Career Level - M5
to lead the engineering strategy, development, and validation of the power solutions required to support OCI’s rapidly expanding global data center portfolio.
This leader will build and lead the organization serving as OCI’s technical authority for power systems from the utility grid through the campus power interface. The team will own the engineering of the full portfolio of power solutions required to enable GW-scale AI and cloud infrastructure, including utility interconnections, transmission and substation interfaces, battery energy storage systems (BESS), utility load-management solutions, microgrids, on-site generation, grid-support technologies, and emerging power technologies.
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