Senior Director, Power Systems Engineering – OCI Data Center Infrastructure

Oracle is a company providing AI and cloud solutions across data, infrastructure, and applications. The Senior Director will build and lead OCI’s global Power Systems Engineering organization, establishing strategies and standards for utility interconnections, energy storage, on-site generation, grid integration, and mission-critical data center power infrastructure. The role will lead technical validation, modeling, testing, technology strategy, and partnerships with utilities, OEMs, and internal infrastructure teams.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages: English
• 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
• 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