Lead Principal Technical Program Manager

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle Corporation is seeking a Senior Principal Technical Program Manager to lead delivery of OCI services. You will work with multi-disciplinary teams to define scopes, plan schedules, and ensure timely value delivery in a fast-paced environment.

You will collaborate with program and product management, balance budget constraints, and mentor teammates while driving hybrid-cloud solutions for our enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer sciences, software engineering, technology management, business management, or similar.
• 10+ years of hands-on technical program management experience, preferably in cloud services.
• Advanced knowledge of product development lifecycle and operating customer-facing cloud services.
• Experience communicating progress to cross-functional teams, senior leadership, and stakeholders.
• Self-driven problem solver in dynamic, customer-focused environments.
• Analytical, technical, and quick to learn new tools and market opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Define project scopes, plan schedules, and ensure timely delivery of value.
• Organize and lead status meetings, prepare reports, manage risks and issues.
• Drive projects from initiation through delivery within budget constraints.
• Collaborate with program and product management to build customer-focused solutions.
• Provide direction and mentoring to team members as needed.

Skills

TPM experience

Cloud infrastructure

Cross‑functional leadership

Agile & traditional PM

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering/related field

Job description

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.

OCI Architecture and Innovation team offers rare opportunities for creative, hands-on product owners with the expertise and passion to work on hard problems in distributed, highly available cloud services and virtualized infrastructure. Our TPMs have a significant business impact crafting and building new systems to power our customers business critical applications. You will work on delivery of various OCI services, including cloud migration service and leading enterprise hybrid cloud service.

In this Senior Principal Technical Program Management role, you will be working across a multi-functional team that understands our business and its objectives, to lead us through planning and designing technical solutions to solve the business’s problems in a very agile, fast-paced, and collaborative environment. The position relies heavily on influence rather than authority to drive projects.

You will define project scopes, plan and direct schedules while focusing on regular and timely delivery of value; organize and lead project status and working meetings; prepare and distribute progress reports; manage risks and issues; correct deviations from plans; and perform delivery planning for assigned projects.

You will independently drive the project from initiation through delivery. Organize the interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget constraints.

You will collaborate closely with our partners in program and product management to understand our customers and build the right solutions and products that makes their needs and businesses complete.

You should possess exceptional problem-solving skills, strong business and technical judgment, and notable experience collaborating in hybrid teams. You are a self-starter technical leader with a shown ability to execute both strategically and tactically, and someone who is excited to take on new projects.

You have strong interpersonal skills including mentoring, coaching, collaborating, and team building. You should be customer-focused with a passion for the cloud. You will partner closely with peers, developers, and customers to create solutions, while simultaneously evolving existing capabilities.

Internal Responsibilities

Job Requirements:

• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and Development/Engineering staff at all levels including the executive level.
• Solid analytical, planning, and interpersonal skills with an ability to handle competing demands.
• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of business need with the ability to establish/maintain high level of customer trust and confidence.
• Experience of software development process models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment.
• Experience with technical design discussions and ability to summarize complex trade-offs and options in presentation and technical documentation
• Ability to effectively represent engineering perspectives to partner organizations, product teams, and executive leadership.
• Aptitude to work across and engage individuals and teams located across multiple geographies and or cultures.
• Work with cross-functional teams to establish and maintain roadmaps, setting appropriate expectations while maintaining standards
• Thrive and succeed in an innovative and fast-paced environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or conflicting priorities.
• Work as a lead contributor individually, and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others as needed/requested.
• Drive other obligations management duties, as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer sciences, software engineering, technology management, business management, or similar.
• 10+ years of experience as hands-on technical program manager; preferably in a related industry.
• Advanced knowledge of the full life cycle of product development and experience launching and operating customer-facing cloud services
• Experience efficiently and effectively communicating findings/progress to cross-functional teams, senior leadership, and the broader organizations, with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Self-driven problem solver; able to adapt and thrive in a dynamic, ambiguous, and customer-focused environment.
• Highly analytical, technically proficient, and able to learn about new tools, software, and market opportunities quickly

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of program/project management, product design or related experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field or equivalent work experience
• Thorough understanding of public cloud infrastructure services, such as Compute, Storage, Identity and Networking
• Demonstrated knowledge of OCI, AWS, Azure or Google IaaS, SaaS and PaaS services.
• Having DataCenter GPU infrastructure is desirable.

External Responsibilities

Job Requirements:

• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and Development/Engineering staff at all levels including the executive level.
• Solid analytical, planning, and interpersonal skills with an ability to handle competing demands.
• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of business need with the ability to establish/maintain high level of customer trust and confidence.
• Experience of software development process models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them together in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment.
• Experience with technical design discussions and ability to summarize complex trade-offs and options in presentation and technical documentation
• Ability to effectively represent engineering perspectives to partner organizations, product teams, and executive leadership.
• Aptitude to work across and engage individuals and teams located across multiple geographies and or cultures.
• Work with cross-functional teams to establish and maintain roadmaps, setting appropriate expectations while maintaining standards
• Thrive and succeed in an innovative and fast-paced environment and not be hindered by ambiguity or conflicting priorities.
• Work as a lead contributor individually, and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others as needed/requested.
• Drive other obligations management duties, as needed.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer sciences, software engineering, technology management, business management, or similar.
• 10+ years of experience as hands-on technical program manager; preferably in a related industry.
• Advanced knowledge of the full life cycle of product development and experience launching and operating customer-facing cloud services
• Experience efficiently and effectively communicating findings/progress to cross-functional teams, senior leadership, and the broader organizations, with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Self-driven problem solver; able to adapt and thrive in a dynamic, ambiguous, and customer-focused environment.
• Highly analytical, technically proficient, and able to learn about new tools, software, and market opportunities quickly

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of program/project management, product design or related experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or relevant technical field or equivalent work experience
• Thorough understanding of public cloud infrastructure services, such as Compute, Storage, Identity and Networking
• Demonstrated knowledge of OCI, AWS, Azure or Google IaaS, SaaS and PaaS services.
• Having DataCenter GPU infrastructure is desirable.