Job Description

What is the opportunity?

The Data Centre Capacity & Delivery Lead is accountable for ensuring that enterprise and regional data centre capacity, white space, power, and delivery capabilities are proactively planned, optimized, and executed to meet current and future business demand.

The role’s primary focus is on white space readiness, space and power management, capacity forecasting, and data quality, ensuring the data center estate can safely and efficiently meet business and platform demand. These activities drive and prioritize the delivery portfolio, including optimization initiatives, co-location builds, data centre moves, and workload migrations.

What will you do?

• Data Centre Optimization, Capacity Management & Continuous Improvement.

  • Drive enterprise and regional data centre capacity planning and forecasting to ensure alignment with business growth and technology strategy.
  • Design and maintain comprehensive, multi-year capacity and delivery roadmaps that support long-term business objectives and technological advancements.
  • Identify and unlock data centre capacity through targeted optimization efforts, including strategic investments where necessary, to maximize efficiency and scalability.
  • Implement a unified approach to forecasting and capacity planning.

• Data Centre Transformations.

  • Lead end-to-end data centre migrations, consolidations, and site exits, ensuring seamless transitions with minimal disruption.
  • Oversee white space readiness, optimization, and infrastructure delivery, including buildouts and expansions to meet evolving capacity demands.
  • Ensure core network, server, and infrastructure preparedness to support migration and operational continuity.
  • Manage workload migration and cutover activities, including weekend and out-of-hours execution, to align with business and technology requirements.
  • Partner closely with business and technology teams to plan, coordinate, and execute migrations, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and operational efficiency.

• Drive enablement and continuous improvement of IMAC processes to enhance efficiency and service delivery across global data centres.

• Delivery governance, Risk and controls.

• Serve as the single point of accountability for all data centre delivery outcomes, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and business needs.

• Develop and implement governance structures, performance metrics, and reporting mechanisms to monitor capacity and delivery execution effectively.

• Lead and mentor a diverse, globally distributed team, fostering cross-training, skill development, and standardized methodologies to drive consistency and innovation.

• Embrace a dynamic role that evolves with organizational maturity, increasingly focusing on strategic forecasting, automation, and investment optimization to future-proof data centre operations.

What do you need to succeed?

Must have:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.

• Extensive experience in data centre operations, capacity management, or infrastructure delivery.

• Proven leadership of complex, multi-site infrastructure delivery initiatives.

• Experience managing globally distributed delivery teams.

• Demonstrated accountability for delivery outcomes, not just coordination.

• Demonstrated experience leading delivery of:

  • Data centre buildouts, expansions, and white space readiness/optimization.
  • Enterprise and Co-location facility projects and large-scale data centre moves/migrations.
  • Capacity-unlock initiatives and infrastructure modernization programs.

• Strong data literacy with expertise in reconciling, validating, and leveraging data across multiple operational systems to drive insights.

• Ability to apply structured delivery and project management techniques as a capability, not a role identity.

• Proven stakeholder, vendor, and partner leadership skills.

• Comfortable operating with ambiguity while improving data quality and decision confidence.

• Flexibility to support out-of-hours and weekend delivery activity.

Nice to have:

• Professional certifications in infrastructure, engineering, or program delivery e.g., PMP, PRINCE2 or Data Centre certifications (CDCMP, CDCPM).
• Experience operating within large, regulated, or mission-critical environments.
• Experience transitioning organizations from reactive to strategic capacity management.
• Experience with formal capacity modelling and forecasting.
• Experience with ServiceNow; imVision; Nlyte products.

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable.
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities.
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact.
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team.
• Opportunities to do challenging work as part of a global team.
• A world-class training program in financial services.

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Job Skills

Accountability, Accountability, Business Units, Capacity Management, Capacity Planning, Colocation, Data Accuracy, Data Center Administration, Data Center Architecture, Data Center Automation, Data Center Cabling, Data Center Consolidation, Data Center Facility Management, Data Center Hosting, Data Center Integration, Data Center Maintenance, Data Center Management, Data Center Migrations, Data Center Monitoring, Data Center Networks, Data Center Operations, Data Center Optimization, Data Center Planning, Data Center Project Management, Data Center Projects {+ 18 more}

Additional Job Details

Address:

335 8 AVE SW:CALGARY

City:

Calgary

Country:

Canada

Work hours/week:

37.5

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-02-06

Application Deadline:

2026-02-27

Note**:** Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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