Align Communications
Director of Data Center Tools
Plano, Texas, United States · Director · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 5 days ago
Data AnalysisData VisualizationProduct ManagementProduct StrategyProject ManagementAgileAccountingExcelProcess ImprovementERPHRLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingInternal AuditConstruction Management
About the role
- Do you want to work with smart, forward-thinking individuals?
- Do you want to grow in a career you love?
- At Align, our professionals are the key to our success.
Responsibilities
- Maintain a single roadmap for Align's DC Solutions platform and other internally and externally built tools supporting the Data Center Solutions Team, rather than managing individual projects in isolation.
- Maintain a rationalized system and tool inventory (documenting ownership, purpose, and cost) for Professional Services, and identify redundant or underused tools for consolidation.
- Partner with Data Center/Professional Services leaders and the CEO/CTO/COO to translate company priorities - such as scaling delivery capacity, resource and workforce planning, and AI adoption - into a prioritized systems roadmap.
- Prepare and present a quarterly systems roadmap and portfolio review to executive leadership, including build-versus-buy recommendations for new capabilities.
- develop and prioritize a product backlog and user stories for each tool.
- Oversee design and development - including managing internal developers or directing contract and agency development resources - and make build-versus-buy determinations as these tools mature.
- Own quality assurance and user acceptance testing for releases
- manage deployment, versioning, and post-release support.
- Gather requirements from end users and business stakeholders; develop and prioritize a product backlog and user stories for each tool.
- Own quality assurance and user acceptance testing for releases; manage deployment, versioning, and post-release support.
Requirements
- 5-10+ years of experience managing business systems in a construction, professional services, or project-based environment.
- Education
- Experience
- Direct experience serving as a product manager or product owner for internally built software, in addition to experience administering commercial off-the-shelf systems.
- Experience leading system implementations, integrations, or major upgrades from requirements through adoption.
Nice to have
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, Construction Management, or a related field (preferred).
- Experience with construction/professional-services ERP and project management platforms, and integrating them with financial or other adjacent business systems, is a plus.
Skills
- Hands-on product management experience for internally built software, including backlog ownership, prioritization, and release planning.
- Ability to work directly with developers, whether in-house or contracted
- ability to read or write code or scripts is a strong plus.
- System integrations, including APIs and middleware tools.
- Dashboard and reporting tool proficiency (advanced Excel
- Power BI or similar a plus).
- Workflow automation and low-code/no-code tooling.
- Data analytics and dashboard development.
- Understanding of the full Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Familiarity with evaluating and piloting AI tooling, such as Copilot, in a business context.
- Soft Skills
- Ability to work directly with developers, whether in-house or contracted; ability to read or write code or scripts is a strong plus.
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