{"id":1131150,"url":"https://alion.io/job/firmus-technologies-connectivity-programme-delivery-lead","title":"Connectivity Programme & Delivery Lead","company":{"id":63306,"name":"Firmus Technologies","domain":"firmus.ai","url":"https://alion.io/company/firmus-technologies","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":95,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":91,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Sydney, Australia"],"countries":["AU"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":71000,"max_usd":186000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":684},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Jira","optional":true},{"name":"Microsoft Project","optional":true},{"name":"Power BI","optional":true},{"name":"Smartsheet","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-23T01:58:44Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T10:39:05Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"Firmus Technologies\nFirmus Technologies is a global leader pioneering the development and operation of efficient AI infrastructure across Asia Pacific. Founded in Australia in 2019, our mission is to create the most efficient AI infrastructure by combining cutting-edge technology with a steadfast commitment to sustainability. \nAt Firmus, we are unique in our approach. We design, build, and operate a new class of digital infrastructure - the AI Factory. Through our model-to-grid technology approach, we have pushed the boundaries of multi-generational liquid cooling systems, energy management, AI software orchestration, and construction. For our customers, this approach allows us to make every watt count and deliver low-cost AI tokens globally.\n\nFirmus AI Cloud\nOur large-scale GPU cloud platform, Firmus AI Cloud, is purpose-built to deliver energy-efficient AI compute at scale to customers.\nIt empowers developers, enterprises, educational institutions, and government users to train and deploy AI models with unmatched efficiency and cost savings. With an ever-growing suite of services and applications, we are committed to delivering a cloud experience that is market-leading, proprietary, and built to scale.\n\nWhy Firmus?\nAs an NVIDIA Cloud and Engineering partner in Asia Pacific, you will gain skills, experience, and exposure across the AI industry and be part of shaping what this industry looks like for decades to come.\nWe are founder-led, not a big corporate. Decisions happen fast, our leaders are accessible, and there's minimum bureaucracy between you and the work. Ownership comes early. Whatever your role, you will have a direct line to outcomes, helping shape how the business grows as we scale nationally across a long-term, large-scale roadmap. \nWork alongside founders and experts in AI infrastructure, energy systems and next-generation compute.\nWhat we build here has impact beyond the business. Our AI Factories are designed to operate as assets to the energy grid to actively strengthen the communities and regions they operate in rather than drawing from them.\nConsidering applying? You don't need a perfect background to join our team. If you're driven and curious, there's a path for you. We back our people to grow into new domains and take on challenges beyond their previous experience.\nRole Summary\nFirmus is building a resilient national and international connectivity platform for its AI infrastructure and customer services. The Connectivity Programme & Delivery Lead turns the approved Connectivity Strategy, Integrated Backbone Plan, architecture and commercial commitments into a coordinated programme delivered safely, predictably and ready for operations. The role owns the integrated plan, governance, dependencies, schedule, cost, risk and reporting across subsea and terrestrial fibre, optical transport, the IP backbone, data-centre interconnection, facility attachments and service handoffs.\nThe General Manager, Connectivity & Commercials retains accountability for connectivity strategy, investment priorities, commercial outcomes and final programme priorities. The Principal Connectivity Architect owns architecture and technical assurance; the Senior Manager, Network owns engineering execution and operations; and the Connectivity Commercial & Partnerships Lead owns sourcing, contracts and partner outcomes. The Programme & Delivery Lead integrates these accountabilities into one controlled delivery system, provides a single evidence-based view and escalates decisions before outcomes are affected.\nKey Responsibilities\n 1. Connectivity portfolio and integrated planning\nMaintain the integrated connectivity roadmap and master schedule across international and subsea capacity, the domestic backbone, AI Factory attachments and operational enablement.\nTranslate approved strategy, architecture and contracts into charters, work packages, critical paths, milestones, dependencies, stage gates and acceptance outcomes.\nOwn the approved scope, schedule, cost and outcome baselines, with traceability from strategic priority to delivered service.\nBuild achievable plans with Architecture, Network, Commercial, Finance and business sponsors, matched to resource, supplier and funding constraints.\nMaintain delivery scenarios and recommend sequencing or recovery options as demand, capacity, lead times or dependencies change.\n2. Delivery governance, controls and reporting\nEstablish proportionate governance supported by integrated schedules, milestone plans, RAID, decision and action logs, change control and financial reporting.\nAdminister stage gates from mobilisation and design through commitment, implementation, service readiness, acceptance and closure.\nMaintain one evidence-based view of status, critical path, forecast, cost, benefits, dependencies and residual risk across the portfolio.\nReport concisely to executives, highlighting trends, exceptions, decisions required, options, trade-offs and recommended action.\n3. Cross-functional coordination and execution\nEstablish clear accountabilities and handoffs across Architecture, Network, Commercial, Data Centres, Cloud and GPU platforms, Security, Procurement, Legal and Finance.\nLead mobilisation and delivery forums so every milestone, dependency, decision and action has an owner, due date and completion evidence.\nResolve or escalate blockers involving sites, power, facilities, permits, carriers, equipment, security, customers and operational readiness.\nCoordinate resources and sequencing across concurrent initiatives while protecting critical operations and approved strategic priorities.\n4. Supplier and partner delivery management\nWith the Commercial & Partnerships Lead, translate contracts, statements of work and service commitments into delivery plans, milestones, dependencies and acceptance criteria.\nAlign Firmus and supplier schedules across carriers, cable operators, equipment vendors, data centres, construction and managed services.\nChallenge progress using objective evidence, track obligations and recovery actions, and escalate performance issues early.\nCoordinate delivery changes, claims, variations and dependencies without assuming the authority of Commercial, Procurement, Legal or Finance.\n5. Risk, financial and change control\nMaintain an integrated RAID view with clear owners, due dates, mitigations, contingency triggers and escalation thresholds.\nForecast cost and schedule reliably, including commitments, actuals, accruals, estimate at completion and material variance.\nRun change control that shows the impact on scope, schedule, cost, architecture, risk, benefits and operations before approval.\nDevelop contingencies for long-lead dependencies including fibre construction, cable delivery, permits, equipment, facility readiness and customer dates.\n6. Commissioning, operational readiness and handover\nCoordinate implementation, migration and cutover planning with Network, Architecture, business teams and delivery partners.\nEnsure gate evidence covers testing, diversity, as-builts, inventory and CMDB data, monitoring, runbooks, spares, support, training and escalation paths.\nDrive readiness reviews and defect closure so accountable owners accept services before production support.\nLead closeout, post-implementation review and benefits tracking, with lessons and unresolved actions carried into future delivery.\n7. Programme leadership and continuous improvement\nGive the General Manager independent, evidence-based delivery advice and surface emerging consequences before they become executive surprises.\nMaintain a practical Connectivity Delivery Playbook covering plans, controls, gates, reporting, acceptance evidence and lessons learned.\nBuild trusted relationships across Firmus functions and external partners.\nCoach workstream leads and project managers while remaining hands-on enough to test plans, challenge evidence and unblock critical work.\nSkills & Experience\nEssential\nExtensive experience leading multi-year telecommunications, hyperscale, cloud, data-centre or criticalinfrastructure programmes at programme lead or director level.\nEnd-to-end delivery experience across terrestrial or subsea fibre, optical transport, carrier-grade IP, data-centre interconnection and high-capacity connections.\nProven delivery of multi-vendor, capital-intensive programmes with long lead times, complex contracts and concurrent workstreams.\nStrong command of integrated scheduling, critical path, RAID, cost forecasting, change control, stage gates, benefits and executive reporting.\nExperience managing supplier performance against contracts, statements of work, milestones, service levels, acceptance criteria and variations.\nExperience coordinating implementation, migration, commissioning, operational readiness and production handover.\nExcellent communication and judgement, with the ability to influence technical, commercial and executive stakeholders and escalate constructively.\nDesirable\nExperience delivering infrastructure for AI, high-performance computing, hyperscale cloud or other environments requiring very high bandwidth, low latency and predictable resilience.\nExposure to subsea cable systems, fibre-pair or IRU arrangements, cable landing stations, terrestrial construction, permitting and data-centre facility delivery.\nExperience with planning and reporting tools such as Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Jira, Smartsheet or Power BI.\nRelevant programme-management accreditation or tertiary qualification, such as MSP, PgMP, PMP or PRINCE2. Equivalent practical experience will be considered equally.\nLocation & Reporting\nLocation:Sydney, NSW, Australia\nReports to:Head of Connectivity\nEmployment Basis\nPermanent full-time\nDiversity\nAt Firmus, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds who are passionate about creating a more sustainable future through innovative engineering solutions.\nJoin us in our mission to revolutionise the AI industry through sustainable practices and cutting-edge engineering. 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