Senior Compliance Manager

Oracle Data Center Facility Operations is seeking a Senior Compliance Manager to lead and mature the compliance program supporting a portfolio of large-scale, mission-critical data center facilities within Property Management.
This role is responsible for establishing consistent compliance standards across multiple sites, providing governance and oversight for regulatory and operational requirements, and partnering with facility operations, engineering, environmental health and safety, security, construction, and other stakeholders to reduce compliance risk.
The Senior Compliance Manager will serve as the primary compliance leader for the portfolio, providing strategic direction to site and regional teams while maintaining sufficient operational awareness to identify risk, drive corrective actions, and support safe, reliable, and compliant data center operations.
The ideal candidate combines strong regulatory and operational compliance experience with the ability to build scalable programs in a complex, high-availability infrastructure environment.

Key Responsibilities

Compliance Program Leadership

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve the compliance framework for Data Center Facility Operations.

• Establish standardized compliance policies, procedures, controls, and governance across assigned data center sites.

• Translate regulatory, corporate, and operational requirements into clear facility-level expectations.

• Maintain a risk-based compliance strategy that prioritizes high-impact requirements and critical infrastructure risks.

• Establish performance metrics, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms to measure compliance health across the portfolio.

• Provide regular compliance updates, risk assessments, and recommendations to Property Management and Data Center leadership.

Multi-Site Compliance Oversight

• Provide compliance leadership and oversight across multiple hyperscale data center facilities.

• Partner with Compliance Managers and site leadership to ensure consistent execution of compliance requirements.

• Establish clear ownership and accountability for site-level compliance activities.

• Conduct periodic site reviews to assess regulatory readiness, operational controls, documentation, and compliance performance.

• Identify systemic or recurring compliance issues and implement portfolio-wide corrective or preventive actions.

• Ensure new sites, expansions, and significant infrastructure changes are incorporated into the compliance program.

Regulatory and Standards Compliance

• Maintain awareness of applicable federal, state, local, and jurisdiction-specific requirements affecting data center facility operations.

• Coordinate compliance activities related to areas such as:

• environmental permitting and regulatory requirements;

• occupational health and safety;

• electrical and critical infrastructure safety;

• emergency preparedness and response;

• fire and life safety;

• hazardous materials and chemical management;

• generator, fuel, battery, and energy-storage systems;

• water, wastewater, and cooling infrastructure;

• facility security and access controls;

• contractor and vendor compliance;

• applicable corporate policies, standards, and management systems.

• Partner with subject matter experts when specialized regulatory interpretation or technical expertise is required.

• Support interactions with regulators, inspectors, auditors, and other authorities having jurisdiction.

Audit, Assurance, and Inspection Readiness

• Establish and manage a risk-based internal compliance audit and inspection program.

• Maintain ongoing readiness for regulatory inspections, customer audits, corporate assessments, and third-party reviews.

• Coordinate audit preparation, evidence collection, stakeholder participation, and responses.

• Ensure findings are documented, assigned, tracked, and closed within established timelines.

• Analyze audit and inspection results to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities for systemic improvement.

Risk Management and Corrective Actions

• Develop and maintain compliance risk assessments for assigned facilities.

• Identify emerging compliance risks associated with changes in operations, infrastructure, regulations, or business requirements.

• Establish effective corrective and preventive action processes.

• Monitor overdue or high-risk corrective actions and elevate significant concerns to appropriate leadership.

• Facilitate root-cause analysis for significant compliance events and recurring deficiencies.

• Partner with facility leadership to ensure risk mitigation plans are practical, measurable, and sustainable.

Incident and Regulatory Response

• Provide compliance leadership during significant facility events, regulatory inquiries, or reportable incidents.

• Ensure required notifications, documentation, investigations, and follow-up actions are completed appropriately.

• Partner with Operations, EHS, Security, Legal, Engineering, and other stakeholders during investigations.

• Identify lessons learned and drive improvements across the broader portfolio where applicable.

Management of Compliance Team

• Provide leadership, coaching, and technical guidance to Compliance Managers and other compliance personnel.

• Establish clear responsibilities, priorities, and performance expectations.

• Develop team capabilities through mentoring, training, and knowledge sharing.

• Balance site-level support with portfolio-level governance to ensure compliance resources are deployed according to risk.

• Build succession plans and scalable compliance capabilities as the data center portfolio grows.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Partner closely with Data Center Facility Operations, Property Management, Engineering, EHS, Security, Construction, Procurement, Legal, Risk, and other corporate functions.

• Participate in operational planning and change-management processes to identify compliance considerations before implementation.

• Support vendor and contractor governance by helping establish compliance expectations and monitoring mechanisms.

• Build strong relationships with site leadership while maintaining appropriate independence and objectivity as a compliance function.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership on compliance risk and operational decision-making.

Documentation and Records Management

• Establish standards for compliance documentation and record retention.

• Ensure permits, inspection records, training records, assessments, certifications, corrective actions, and other required compliance documentation are accurate and readily accessible.

• Promote standardized tools and processes across facilities to reduce administrative complexity and improve visibility.

• Ensure compliance evidence can be efficiently produced during audits or regulatory inspections.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, occupational safety, engineering, facilities management, business, risk management, compliance, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

• Significant professional experience in regulatory compliance, EHS, risk management, facilities operations, critical infrastructure, or a related field.

• Experience providing compliance oversight across multiple facilities or a geographically distributed portfolio.

• Demonstrated experience developing or managing compliance programs, audits, risk assessments, corrective actions, and regulatory readiness.

• Strong working knowledge of compliance principles in mission-critical or industrial environments.

• Experience working across multiple business functions and influencing leaders without direct authority.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex compliance issues to technical and executive audiences.

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize multiple risks and requirements in a fast-paced operational environment.

• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving capabilities.

• Ability to travel regularly to assigned data center locations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting hyperscale, colocation, cloud, data center, semiconductor, manufacturing, utility, telecommunications, or other mission-critical infrastructure.

• Experience with large electrical systems, generators, UPS systems, battery energy storage, cooling systems, fuel systems, or other critical facility infrastructure.

• Knowledge of environmental, occupational safety, fire/life-safety, emergency-management, and contractor-management requirements.

• Experience leading regulatory inspections or complex internal and external audits.

• Experience establishing compliance metrics, dashboards, and executive reporting.

• Experience building or scaling a compliance function across a rapidly growing facility portfolio.

• Relevant professional certifications such as CSP, CHMM, CCEP, ISO lead auditor, or comparable credentials.

Leadership Competencies

• Think strategically while remaining operationally grounded. Understand portfolio-level risk without losing visibility into conditions at the facility level.

• Lead through influence. Drive compliance outcomes across Operations, Engineering, EHS, Security, and other organizations without relying solely on positional authority.

• Prioritize based on risk. Distinguish critical compliance exposures from lower-risk administrative issues and allocate resources accordingly.

• Create scalable systems. Build processes that remain effective as the number, size, and complexity of data centers grow.

• Communicate clearly. Translate regulatory and technical issues into concise business risks, decisions, and actions.

• Promote accountability. Establish clear ownership, measurable expectations, and disciplined follow-through.

• Drive continuous improvement. Look beyond individual findings to identify systemic weaknesses and opportunities to strengthen the operating model.

Measures of Success

• regulatory and audit readiness across all assigned facilities;

• timely closure of compliance findings and corrective actions;

• reduction in repeat findings and recurring compliance deficiencies;

• completion of required inspections, permits, assessments, and compliance activities;

• visibility and timely escalation of significant compliance risks;

• consistency of compliance processes across sites;

• effectiveness of compliance dashboards and leadership reporting;

• strength of site-level compliance ownership and accountability;

• successful support of new data center openings and expansions; and

• development and effectiveness of the compliance team.