Director, Physical Security Delivery, NA

About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

Physical Security Department

The North America Physical Security Department is focused on delivering a best-in-class security program aligned with Vantage’s vision of becoming the leading industry physical security data center provider. Our mission is to safeguard our data center environments through comprehensive, scalable, and standardized physical security processes that deter threats, promote rapid incident response, ensure regulatory compliance, and support Vantage’s rapid growth.

The department leads all physical security efforts across North America, ensuring that every Vantage data center operates within a consistent, scalable, and standardized security framework. Our teams design and implement physical security programs, systems, and processes that deter threats, strengthen site resiliency, and enable rapid response to incidents. We partner closely with Operations, Engineering, Construction, IT, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure that physical security is embedded into every phase of the asset lifecycle and supports Vantage’s rapid expansion.

Position Overview

Vantage Data Centers is seeking a highly experienced and execution focused Director, Physical Security Delivery to establish and lead a newly formed delivery vertical within the Physical Security organization. This role is accountable for the end-to-end delivery of complex physical security programs across multiple data center campuses, including new development projects, campus expansions, remediation initiatives, and incremental system enhancements.

While project management resources exist today, this position represents a new and dedicated delivery function. The Director of Delivery will own delivery strategy, governance, standards, and outcomes, ensuring that projects are executed with discipline, predictability, and operational readiness in a fast paced, high growth, and mission critical environment.

This role requires a seasoned leader with the ability to manage large scale, multi-million dollar programs, lead high performing project management teams, and operate effectively in a highly complex data center ecosystem.

Duties

Delivery Ownership and Execution

• Provide full accountability for physical security project delivery from project initiation through commissioning, closeout, and transition to operations.

• Ensure successful execution of new builds, expansions, remediation efforts, and incremental project enhancements, meeting approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk objectives.

• Serve as the senior escalation point for delivery challenges, including schedule impacts, cost variances, resourcing constraints, and cross functional dependencies.

• Partner closely with Physical Security leadership, the Physical Security Design team, Construction teams, Information Technology, Operations, Finance, and Procurement to ensure alignment, collaboration, and execution integrity across the full project lifecycle.

Team Leadership and Talent Development

• Lead, manage, and develop a team of Project Managers responsible for day-to-day execution of physical security projects.

• Establish clear performance expectations, accountability standards, and professional development pathways for delivery personnel.

• Support workforce planning, hiring, onboarding, and ramp up of new delivery resources as program demand scales.

• Build and sustain a culture of ownership, transparency, operational rigor, and continuous improvement.

Delivery Governance and Program Maturity

• Design, implement, and mature standardized delivery frameworks, workflows, and governance models tailored to physical security programs in data center environments.

• Establish and enforce best practice project management disciplines, including…