Construction Metro Director - Helsinki
About this role
Overview
Microsoft Cloud Operations and Innovation (CO+I) delivers the infrastructure that powers Microsoft's cloud services. The EMEA Data Centre Delivery (DCD) team leads the end-to-end Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) delivery of data centres across the region. The Microsoft portfolio consists of complex, multi-disciplinary, large scale, multi-year datacenter construction and lease projects. We are looking for a passionate, high-energy individual to help build the cloud datacenters that power the world's largest online services.
The Construction Metro Director will lead delivery across three hyperscale campuses near Helsinki, Finland. Each campus includes multiple data centres in planning, enabling works, construction, commissioning, or turnover.
Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.
Responsibilities
- Lead the safe, secure, compliant, and predictable delivery of the Helsinki Metro portfolio, currently covering six concurrent data center projects at different stages of design, construction, commissioning, and turnover.
- Establish the metro delivery strategy, governance model, priorities, and integrated plans across scope, schedule, cost, capacity, quality, sustainability, and operational readiness.
- Align campus and project teams, regional leaders, business partners, utilities, authorities, and other key stakeholders around shared outcomes, clear ownership, and timely decision-making.
- Maintain strong financial and commercial control across budgets, forecasts, change orders, contingencies, procurement, contracts, and vendor performance, taking corrective action when delivery or value is at risk.
- Own metro-level r