Senior Compliance Manager
Nashville, TN, United States15h ago
Key details
- Location
- Nashville, TN, United States
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Lead / Staff+
- Experience
- 10–13 yrs
- Function
- Legal & Compliance
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- 15h ago
Skills
About the role
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
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.
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.
• 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; and
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.
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 escalate 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.
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.
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.
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.
Establish standards for compliance documentation and record retention.
Ensure permits, inspection records, training records, assessments, certifications, corrective actions, and other req
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