Connectivity Programme & Delivery Lead

Location: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Company

hirify.global Technologies develops and operates sustainable AI infrastructure and hirify.global AI Cloud across the Asia Pacific region, combining AI compute, liquid cooling, energy management, software orchestration, and construction.

What you will do

• Own the integrated connectivity roadmap and master schedule across international and subsea capacity, domestic backbone infrastructure, AI Factory attachments, and operational enablement.
• Translate strategy, architecture, and commercial commitments into delivery charters, work packages, critical paths, milestones, dependencies, stage gates, and acceptance outcomes.
• Establish governance and maintain evidence-based reporting covering status, cost, forecast, benefits, dependencies, decisions, and residual risk.
• Coordinate Architecture, Network, Commercial, Data Centres, Cloud and GPU platforms, Security, Procurement, Legal, Finance, suppliers, carriers, and delivery partners.
• Manage supplier delivery, contract obligations, recovery actions, changes, variations, long-lead dependencies, and programme risks.
• Coordinate implementation, migration, commissioning, operational readiness, service acceptance, production handover, closeout, and benefits tracking.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading multi-year telecommunications, hyperscale, cloud, data-centre, or critical-infrastructure programmes at programme lead or director level.
• End-to-end delivery experience across terrestrial or subsea fibre, optical transport, carrier-grade IP, data-centre interconnection, and high-capacity connections.
• Experience delivering multi-vendor, capital-intensive programmes with long lead times, complex contracts, and concurrent workstreams.
• Strong command of integrated scheduling, critical path management, RAID, cost forecasting, change control, stage gates, benefits tracking, and executive reporting.
• Experience managing supplier performance against contracts, statements of work, milestones, service levels, acceptance criteria, and variations.
• Experience coordinating implementation, migration, commissioning, operational readiness, and production handover, with strong communication and stakeholder judgement.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering infrastructure for AI, high-performance computing, hyperscale cloud, or other high-bandwidth, low-latency environments.
• Exposure to subsea cable systems, fibre-pair or IRU arrangements, cable landing stations, terrestrial construction, permitting, or data-centre facility delivery.
• Experience with Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Jira, Smartsheet, or Power BI.
• MSP, PgMP, PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent programme-management experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent full-time employment in a founder-led company with direct access to leaders and limited bureaucracy.
• Opportunity to work with experts in AI infrastructure, energy systems, and next-generation compute.
• Ownership and exposure across a long-term, large-scale national and international infrastructure roadmap.
• Inclusive workplace committed to diversity and sustainable engineering.