Program Schedule Lead, Data Centers

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Locations: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; +8 more; +7 more

Experience Level: Advanced

Advanced Experience owning outcomes and decision making, solving ambiguous problems and influencing stakeholders; deep expertise in domain.

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Benefits In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

• Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
• Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
• Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
• Sick Time: 40 hours/year (increased to 69 hours/year for Seattle) including 5 discretionary sick days per instance
• Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
• Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
• Holidays: 13 paid days per year

Applicants in San Francisco: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Sunnyvale, CA, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Kirkland, WA, USA; Reston, VA, USA; Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Dallas, TX, USA; New York, NY, USA.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business Administration, a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in program management.
• 3 years of experience in Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) software, including database management, resource loading, and global change execution.
• 2 years of experience using schedule analytics and health-check software (e.g., Deltek Acumen Fuse) to audit logic density and constraints.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience authoring formal Time Impact Analyses (TIAs) to support or dispute change orders, delay claims, and liquidated damages.
• Strong background in managing complex sequencing specific to data center builds, including long-lead procurement (transformers), environmental permitting, and grid interconnection.
• Proficiency running quantitative schedule risk analyses and Monte Carlo simulations (via Primavera Risk Analysis or Acumen Risk) to forecast milestone probabilities.
• Ability to enforce strict scheduling governance across tier-one contractors, challenge unrealistic data inputs, and effectively influence executive project leadership.

About the Job A problem isn't truly solved until it's solved for all. That's why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Technical Program Manager at Google, you'll use your technical expertise to lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish.

You'll work with stakeholders to plan requirements, identify risks, manage project schedules, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. You're equally comfortable explaining your team's analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical tradeoffs in product development with engineers.

As a Program Schedule Lead, you will own the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) by establishing a standardized work breakdown structure and integrating multi-party logic from developers, general contractors, internal stakeholders, OEMs, and utilities. In this role, you will manage day-to-day tactical execution through critical path analysis, quantitative progress tracking, and earned value management to measure physical progress against actual spend. To proactively mitigate risk, you will utilize schedule diagnostics what-if scenario modeling, and formal time impact analyses to manage change orders and protect the project timeline.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US Salary Range: $192000 - $278000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

• Integrate highly complex schedules from developers, Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) contractors, equipment OEMs, owners-engineers, and interconnecting utilities into a single, cohesive Master Integrated Schedule.
• Monitor the critical path and partner with cost engineering to analyze schedule variances and Schedule Performance Index (SPI) to measure physical progress against actual spend.
• Build what-if schedules and prepare formal Time Impact Analyses (TIAs) to evaluate the impact of unexpected disruptions and quantify change orders to mitigate risk.
• Conduct regular schedule updates using quantitative tracking metrics and develop resource-loaded schedules to analyze labor density, craft availability, and heavy equipment utilization.

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