Senior Manager, Technical Documentation, Data Center Facilities (Nashville)

Role OverviewAs Senior Manager, Technical Documentation, you will lead the documentation operating model for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure data center operations, ensuring critical procedures, standards, playbooks, knowledge articles, and turnover documentation are accurate, controlled, field-usable, and aligned to operational risk requirements. This role is responsible for building and managing the systems, governance, and team capability required to keep operational documentation current across a rapidly scaling data center portfolio.You will serve as a senior people leader within Central Data Center Operations, partnering with Facilities Operations, Site Readiness, Site Deployment, Commissioning, Engineering, Reliability, Safety, Security, Compliance, Training, and vendor teams to create documentation that supports safe execution, consistent operations, incident readiness, maintenance quality, and clean operational handoff.This is not a general writing role. It is an operational documentation leadership role responsible for translating complex technical processes into controlled, repeatable, and auditable content that enables data center teams to execute safely and consistently at hyperscale.Key ResponsibilitiesOwn the technical documentation strategy and governance model for Central Data Center Operations, including documentation standards, lifecycle management, approval workflows, version control, ownership, and publishing discipline.Lead and develop a team of documentation managers, technical writers, procedure specialists, knowledge managers, or matrixed contributors supporting data center operations content across the portfolio.Establish and maintain enterprise documentation standards for SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, runbooks, maintenance work instructions, site readiness guides, turnover packages, knowledge articles, escalation guides, and operational playbooks.Partner with subject matter experts across facilities operations, engineering, commissioning, deployment, reliability, safety, security, compliance, and training to convert technical requirements into clear, actionable, field-ready procedures.Create operating mechanisms that keep documentation aligned with infrastructure changes, commissioning outcomes, CMMS activation, incident learnings, maintenance strategy, vendor scope changes, safety requirements, and operational risk controls.Drive documentation quality through structured reviews, procedure validation, readability standards, risk checks, field feedback loops, audit trails, and periodic refresh cycles.Ensure critical procedures are written for safe execution in active data center environments, including clear prerequisites, roles and responsibilities, step sequencing, risk controls, rollback criteria, communications, and escalation paths.Develop taxonomy, templates, metadata standards, document repositories, dashboards, and reporting mechanisms that improve searchability, adoption, compliance visibility, and content health across sites and regions.Partner with Training and Operations leaders to ensure documentation supports onboarding, qualification, recurrence training, abnormal-event readiness, and consistent execution across site teams.Measure and report documentation health, including content currency, review compliance, open gaps, field adoption, critical procedure readiness, audit findings, and systemic documentation risks.Manage documentation-related vendor support, tooling, content migration, localization, or digitization efforts where applicable, ensuring quality, security, and operational usability standards are met.Champion a culture of clarity, procedural discipline, safety, continuous improvement, and accountability, ensuring documentation reduces human error and strengthens operational resilience.Only Oracle brings together the data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to power everything from industry innovations to life-saving care. And with AI embedded across our products and services, we help customers turn that promise into a better future for all. Discover your potential at a company leading the way in AI and cloud solutions that impact billions of lives.True innovation starts when everyone is empowered to contribute. That’s why we’re committed to growing a workforce that promotes opportunities for all with competitive benefits that support our people with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We also encourage employees to give back to their communities through our volunteer programs.We’re committed to including people with disabilities at all stages of the employment process. If you require accessibility assistance or accommodation for a disability at any point, let us know by emailing View email address on apply.placed-app.com or by calling View phone number on apply.placed-app.com in the United States.Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.Disclaimer:Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations onlyUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $126,200 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion2. Short term disability and long term disability3. Life insurance and AD&D4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.9. 11 paid holidays10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.11. Paid parental leave12. Adoption assistance13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan14. Financial planning and group legal15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insuranceThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.Career Level - M3Ideal Candidate Profile8+ years of experience in technical documentation, operations documentation, knowledge management, data center operations, critical facilities, infrastructure operations, engineering support, or similarly complex technical environments.3+ years of experience leading teams, programs, vendors, or cross-functional documentation initiatives in large-scale, operationally intensive organizations.Experience building documentation systems for mission-critical environments, including SOPs, MOPs, EOPs, runbooks, maintenance procedures, knowledge bases, audit documentation, or controlled operating standards.Strong understanding of data center operations or critical infrastructure, including electrical, mechanical, controls, network, safety, change management, incident response, maintenance, and operational turnover concepts.Demonstrated ability to work with technical subject matter experts and translate complex field processes into clear, accurate, and executable procedures.Experience implementing documentation governance, content lifecycle controls, review cycles, version management, metadata standards, content quality metrics, and continuous improvement mechanisms.Bachelor’s degree in Technical Communication, Engineering, Operations, Information Systems, English, Communications, or related field preferred; equivalent technical operations experience will be considered.Skills and CompetenciesSenior-level documentation leadership with strong operational judgment and the ability to prioritize documentation work based on safety, reliability, compliance, and execution risk.Excellent technical writing, editing, information architecture, and content governance skills for complex infrastructure environments.Ability to create concise, field-usable procedures that reduce ambiguity, improve repeatability, and support safe execution during normal operations, maintenance, deployment, and abnormal conditions.Strong stakeholder management across operations, engineering, commissioning, deployment, reliability, safety, security, compliance, training, and vendor teams.Strong program management discipline, including planning, prioritization, dependency management, issue tracking, metrics, reporting, and executive-ready communication.High attention to detail in procedure accuracy, terminology, version control, approval records, document hierarchy, and content consistency across a global portfolio.Abi