Principal Lead Estimator (Hyperscale Data Centers)

at Oracle in Boise, Idaho, United States

Job Description

Oracle is seeking a highly experienced Principal Lead Estimator to support hyperscale data center development, build-out, and infrastructure delivery across multiple regions. This is a senior hands-on estimating leadership role responsible for developing complex estimates, shaping estimating strategy, supporting cost negotiations, improving estimating processes, and delivering executive-ready cost recommendations.

This role requires a builder mindset. The successful candidate will help scale a growing estimating function while personally developing estimates, improving cost models, challenging vendor assumptions, and creating repeatable tools and processes. The ideal candidate is adaptable, commercially strong, technically credible, and comfortable working in fast-moving environments with incomplete information and evolving priorities.

Responsibilities

+ Develop, validate, reconcile, and defend complex estimates for hyperscale data center projects, programs, and strategic initiatives.

+ Lead estimating efforts across multiple disciplines, including electrical, low voltage, mechanical, civil, structural, architectural, controls, security, network, site infrastructure, and related mission-critical scopes.

+ Build conceptual, budgetary, and detailed estimates using drawings, design narratives, BOMs, specifications, contractor proposals, colocation provider inputs, historical data, market benchmarks, and parametric models.

+ Develop and maintain estimating models, including quantity-based, labor-hour, productivity-based, parametric, benchmark, and should-cost models.

+ Review and challenge vendor, contractor, consultant, trade partner, and colocation provider pricing for completeness, transparency, consistency, and commercial reasonableness.

+ Support cost negotiations with contractors, vendors, specialty trades, consultants, and colocation providers.

+ Develop defensible should-cost positions using internal cost models, historical benchmarks, market data, regional labor assumptions, productivity expectations, and project-specific scope analysis.

+ Lead bid leveling, proposal analysis, pricing normalization, scope reconciliation, commercial review, and estimate gap analysis.

+ Identify missing scope, undefined interfaces, pricing anomalies, cost risks, constructability concerns, commercial gaps, and estimate assumptions requiring leadership attention.

+ Develop assumptions, inclusions, exclusions, allowances, escalation, contin