ATC Deployment Enablement Manager

Position Summary

The Datacenter Network Engineering (DNE) Air Traffic Control (ATC) Deployment Enablement Manager is the senior program leader accountable for converting approved DNE network designs and portfolio priorities into predictable execution across a data center fleet.

The role owns end-to-end delivery for front-end fabric infrastructure and assigned DNE programs, including new builds, technology modifications, retrofits, capacity expansions, and special projects. Accountability begins when scope is accepted for execution and continues through planning, material readiness, site execution, validation, operational handoff, and closeout.

This is a program leadership role first. The successful candidate will have enough technical fluency to understand data center fabric dependencies, challenge incomplete deployment packages, and lead informed conversations with engineers. The role does not configure network equipment or replace DNE's design authority. Its impact comes from creating clarity, sequencing complex work, aligning teams without direct authority, and delivering committed outcomes at fleet scale.

Why This Role Exists

DNE deployments span engineering, hardware supply, construction, logistics, site readiness, field execution, provisioning, and operations. Without a single execution owner, design changes, material constraints, and site dependencies can surface late and create avoidable schedule risk. The DNE ATC provides one accountable program lead who connects these systems and ensures that approved network capacity is delivered safely, consistently, and on time.

Primary Scope

• Front-end data center fabric deployments
• New data center network builds and expansions
• Technology modifications and lifecycle retrofits
• DNE hardware refreshes, migrations, and decommissions within the assigned portfolio
• Special DNE projects that require cross-functional delivery coordination
• Portfolio roadmapping, material readiness, and execution governance across multiple sites

Key Responsibilities

1. Portfolio Strategy and Roadmap Ownership

• Build, own, and drive DNE's half-over-half execution roadmap across new builds, front-end fabric projects, technology modifications, retrofits, and special initiatives.
• Translate approved Plan of Record and engineering priorities into an executable deployment portfolio with scope, milestones, sequencing, resource needs, and committed dates.
• Evaluate new demand against portfolio capacity, hardware availability, site readiness, and existing commitments.
• Lead prioritization and tradeoff discussions when multiple projects compete for shared hardware, engineering support, field resources, or deployment windows.
• Maintain a single portfolio view of planned, committed, active, at-risk, and completed work.

2. Intake and Deployment Readiness

• Own project intake and ensure each request has a clear business objective, scope, priority, target sites, schedule, accountable engineering owner, and acceptance criteria.
• Validate that required execution artifacts are complete before commitment, including the Engineering Design Package (EDP), statement of work, Bill of Materials (BOM), Method of Procedure (MOP), deployment workflow, site-specific requirements, and dependency map.
• Confirm that space, power, cabling, facilities, logistics, and site-access requirements are identified and owned.
• Establish readiness gates and refuse false-start execution when critical scope, design, material, site, or ownership inputs are missing.
• Document assumptions, exceptions, unresolved decisions, and the owner responsible for closing each gap.

3. End-to-End Deployment Delivery

• Own program execution from accepted intake through kickoff, material delivery, field installation, provisioning, validation, operational handoff, and closeout.
• Develop and maintain integrated schedules across DNE engineering, delivery engineering, Deployment, Design Engineering and Construction, site teams, logistics, sourcing, vendors, and operations.
• Lead kickoff calls, weekly execution reviews, milestone checks, and decision forums with clear owners, due dates, and escalation paths.
• Drive stage-gate completion and ensure downstream teams receive complete, timely, and actionable handoffs.
• Verify that acceptance criteria, open defects, operational ownership, and residual risks are documented before closing a project.

4. Hardware Supply and Material Readiness

• Own portfolio-level visibility into DNE hardware demand, supply, allocation, and deployment need-by dates.
• Partner with logistics, sourcing, supply chain, and hardware program teams to validate BOMs, forecast demand, track purchase-order or pool allocation, and confirm material arrival at the Site Delivery Facility.
• Identify shortages, substitutions, excess allocations, and late material before they affect committed milestones.
• Lead allocation tradeoffs across projects and regions using documented priority, schedule impact, and business need.
• Track emergency material requests and use recurring exceptions to improve BOM quality and intake readiness.

5. Risk, Dependency, and Change Management

• Maintain a program risk and dependency register with quantified schedule impact, mitigation, owner, due date, and escalation threshold.
• Identify cross-domain dependencies involving INE, Network AI, backbone, optical, facilities, construction, logistics, and site operations.
• Own the programmatic change-control process for design updates, BOM changes, scope changes, priority changes, and schedule revisions.
• Ensure approved changes are propagated to schedules, material plans, deployment workflows, trackers, and downstream teams.
• Escalate strategically when a decision, resource constraint, or unresolved risk threatens scope, schedule, quality, or operational readiness.
• Coordinate SEV-related program actions and ensure permanent follow-up work is tracked to closure.

6. Stakeholder Leadership and Executive Communication

• Serve as the single point of program accountability for assigned DNE deployment portfolios.
• Build productive partnerships across DNE design and delivery engineering, Deployment, procurement, sourcing, site teams, PM/PC partners, vendors, and operations.
• Drive decisions and accountability without direct authority, using evidence, clear tradeoffs, and documented commitments.
• Provide concise leadership updates that state where the portfolio stands, what is at risk, what has changed, and what decision or support is needed.
• Present delivery health, capacity readiness, material risk, and execution trends in leadership and planning forums.

7. Tooling, Data Quality, and Reporting

• Maintain accurate execution data.
• Use deployment dashboards and hardware trackers to confirm physical-model and material dependencies where applicable.
• Partner with engineering teams to understand workflow readiness and execution status.
• Build automated status reporting, portfolio scorecards, dependency views, and exception-based reporting that reduce manual reconciliation.
• Define data owners and resolve conflicting dates, statuses, or scope across systems before reporting program health.

8. Operational Excellence and Team Enablement

• Lead retrospectives for significant deployments, delays, and repeat failure patterns.
• Convert lessons learned into improved intake standards, readiness gates, templates, automation opportunities, and training.
• Develop reusable playbooks for repeatable DNE deployment types.
• Mentor PM/PC partners and new team members on DNE deployment processes, decision standards, and escalation practices.
• Reduce duplicate meetings, manual reporting, and unclear handoffs while increasing visibility and accountability.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Program and Portfolio Leadership

• 10+ years of technical program or portfolio management experience in network infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, data centers, telecommunications, or another large-scale physical infrastructure environment.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex, multi-site deployment programs from intake through operational handoff.
• Experience building roadmaps, integrated schedules, readiness gates, dependency models, risk registers, and measurable delivery commitments.
• Proven ability to prioritize concurrent programs with shared hardware, engineering, and field resources.
• Ability to drive decisions, accountability, and conflict resolution across teams without direct authority.
• Strong executive communication skills, including concise written updates and confident leadership readouts.

DNE Technical Fluency

• Working understanding of data center network fabrics, including front-end and backend boundaries, spine/leaf concepts, Top of Rack switching, fabric layers, physical topology, and redundancy.
• Understanding of the deployment lifecycle: design, BOM, sourcing, staging, rack and stack, cabling, provisioning, quality assurance, acceptance, and operational handoff.
• Ability to read and question an EDP, BOM, MOP, deployment workflow, dependency map, and site-readiness package.
• Ability to discuss hardware, optics, cabling, power, space, and site dependencies with engineers without needing to perform the engineering work.
• Experience operating in environments with evolving architectures, lifecycle retrofits, migrations, and first-of-a-kind deployment constraints.

Hardware and Supply Management

• Experience with hardware demand planning, BOM management, material allocation, purchase-order or pool tracking, logistics, and supply-risk mitigation.
• Ability to connect supply status to schedule confidence and make evidence-based allocation recommendations.

Data, Tools, and Process Improvement

• Experience with project and engineering work-management tools.
• Ability to build useful program metrics, dashboards, and automated reporting from imperfect operational data.
• Demonstrated success simplifying workflows, eliminating manual toil, and improving execution through standardization or automation.
• Strong attention to data quality, source-of-truth discipline, and decision traceability.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering data center network fabric at hyperscale or across a large fleet.
• Familiarity with DNE planning and deployment tools.
• Experience with front-end fabric deployments, technology modifications, network lifecycle programs, hardware migrations, or decommissions.
• Experience partnering with construction, facilities, supply chain, logistics, field engineering, vendors, and operations.
• Experience with AI-assisted workflow optimization, automated reporting, or program analytics.
• PMP, PgMP, network, cloud, or data center certification.

Education and Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
• PMP, PgMP, or equivalent program-management certification is preferred.
• Network, cloud, or data center certifications are helpful but not required.

Additional Requirements

• Must be US-based.
• Ability to travel up to 15% for site visits, workshops, and deployment support.
• Flexibility to support global deployments and stakeholders across time zones.

Salary Range

• Please note that the salary information provided herein is base pay only (gross); it does not include other forms of compensation which may or may not apply to this specific position, namely, performance-based bonuses, benefits-related payments, or other general incentives - none of which are guaranteed, may be subject to specific eligibility requirements, and are wholly within the discretion of Astreya to remit.
• Further, the salary information noted above is a range that consists of a minimum and maximum rate of pay for this specific position. Where an applicant or employee is placed on this range will depend and be contingent on objective, documented work-related considerations like education, experience, certifications, licenses, preferred qualifications, among other factors.

Astreya offers comprehensive benefits to all Regular, Full-Time Employees,including:

• Medical provided through UHC (PPO, HSA, Surest options) / Medical provided through Kaiser (HMO option only) for California employees only

• Dental provided through UHC

• Nationwide Vision provided by UHC

• Flexible Spending Account for Health & Dependent Care

• Pre-Tax Account for Commuter Benefit/Parking & Transit (location-specific)

• Continuing Education and Professional Development via various integrated platforms, e.g. Udemy and Coursera

• Corporate Wellness Program provided by Goomi Group

• Employee Assistance Program

• Wellness Days

  401k Plan

• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance

• Short Term & Long Term Disability

• Critical Illness, Critical Hospital, and Voluntary Accident Insurance

• Tuition Reimbursement (available 6 months after start date, capped)

• Paid Time Off (accrued and prorated, maximum of 120 hours annually)

• Paid Holidays

• Any other statutory leaves, paid time, or other ancillary benefits required under state and federal law

Originally posted on Himalayas