Senior Lead Technical Program Manager, Security

Oracle Corporation; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 115,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle is seeking a Senior Lead Technical Program Manager, Security in the United States to shape and drive complex cross‑organizational security programs. You will align security priorities with senior leadership, apply AI-enabled capabilities, and ensure resilience, risk management, and strong business outcomes across products.

You will lead program planning, milestones, KPI definition, and collaboration across multiple teams, mentoring staff while delivering scalable security solutions and

Qualifications

• Requires deep security expertise across programs and cross-functional teams.
• Experience with AI-enabled capabilities for planning, reporting, and risk management.
• Strong collaboration with executives and senior leaders.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex security programs across organizations to strengthen resilience and risk management.
• Partner with senior management to align security priorities and goals.
• Drive AI-enabled automation for reporting, dashboards, and risk forecasting.
• Define scope, milestones, and resource plans for security initiatives.
• Mentor program staff and ensure alignment with enterprise architecture.

Skills

Cybersecurity Frameworks

Data Analysis

GenAI Applications

Planning & Scheduling

Process Improvement

Security Architecture

Stakeholder Engagement

Technical Program Management

Job description

Senior Lead Technical Program Manager, Security

• United States

Job Description

The IC5 Lead Principal Technical Program Manager, Security, shapes and leads complex, cross-organizational security programs that strengthen product resilience, operational execution, risk management, and business outcomes.

• Partners with senior management and stakeholders to align security priorities and goals, applying technical expertise in security or a related technical domain.
• Leverages AI-enabled capabilities, including generative AI, large language models, and AI-enabled automation tools, to improve program planning, reporting, risk management, decision support, and execution of security programs.
• Establishes scope and milestones for each aspect of a security program, aligning to the broader program plan and company security strategies and goals, managing efforts between cross-functional teams to deliver programs or services.
• Shapes and leads security programs and highly complex, cross-organizational initiatives impacting products and business.
• Drives the management of and responses to issues, bottlenecks, and risks, serving as a point of escalation for issues.
• Shapes program improvement strategies by applying security best practices and AI-enabled capabilities, where appropriate, to drive transformational change, improve operational efficiency, and optimize processes across multiple teams.
• Shapes technical and security collaboration across multiple teams, ensuring alignment of priorities and program goals.
• Provides expert security and technical guidance to shape and direct AI-enabled automation of reporting, dashboards, forecasts, and models, partnering with development teams to drive innovation and support long-term technical program execution.
• Shapes the strategic direction of collaboration efforts as a technical liaison across stakeholder teams for high-impact security programs.

Responsibilities

Technical Management and Execution - Security Management:

• Leverages security knowledge to identify risks, manage scope, estimate program timelines, assess feasibility, testing requirements, and determine appropriate resources.
• Designs and shapes the security strategy for product or service delivery, ensuring alignment with the third party, security, export, and accessibility compliance requirements.
• Integrates program demand, funding, and resource planning to support prioritization and execution.
• Leads rapid response to the most critical security escalations, coordinating across teams and departments and serving as the primary point of contact to executives to assess risk, determine comprehensive mitigation strategies, and ensure alignment and execution of the most effective path to resolution.
• Leads AI-enabled process transformation and optimization to improve the reliability, resilience, and operational execution of products and services.

Technical Management and Execution - Security Strategy and Execution:

• Utilizes security knowledge to identify and manage program dependencies and risks.
• Supports rapid response to escalations, coordinating within team and communicating to senior team members to assess risk, determine mitigation strategies, and execute the optimal proposed path to resolution.
• Shapes overall planning activities, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.
• Defines and enforces delivery standards and guidelines, ensuring security, scalability, and alignment with best practices.

Develops Line of Business (LOB) strategies for change management and/or incident response to enhance operational efficiency.

Program Oversight - Strategy and Decision-Making:

• Leads the alignment of security priorities with customers, service, and stakeholder teams through regular reporting to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Establishes scope and milestones, aligning to the broader program plan and company strategies and goals, managing efforts between cross-functional teams to deliver programs or services.
• Leads efforts to define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and measurement methods for LOB performance.

Develops and communicates a comprehensive and strategic communication strategy of highly complex objectives to partners and customers.

Program Oversight - Program and Operations Management:

• Shapes and leads both technical and non-technical security programs and highly complex, cross-organizational security efforts impacting products and business.
• Guides and mentors program staff (e.g., development, release management, customer success), providing expert security support and strategic direction on removing barriers, including risks and issues in workflows.
• Shapes and leads AI-enabled forecasting, where appropriate, for program demand, funding, and resource requirements to inform planning, prioritization, and execution
• Provides guidance on developing and maintaining comprehensive program documentation (e.g., status reports, program plans) and develops risk mitigation strategies.
• Ensures attention to detail, including security and quality, in program management, from planning to execution and reporting.
• Chairs regular security program status meetings, fostering collaboration and driving effective communication across teams and leaders.
• Partners with leadership to set service level agreements (SLAs) and productivity benchmarks aligned with long-term business goals.
• Leads the deployment of change management for security programs, such as priority, scope, scheduling, development, requirement changes, and support.
• Drives the management of and responses to security issues, bottlenecks, and risks, serving as a point of escalation for all issues.
• Develops plans using AI-enabled insights from cost assessments, benefits analysis, and return on investment (ROI) evaluations to improve decision-making and risk mitigation strategies.
• Makes strategic security decisions, balancing business needs, technical constraints, and long-term goals.
• Removes critical blockers for the program and determines optimal technical and resource options to drive the successful delivery and adoption of solutions.

Process Efficiency - Process Optimization:

• Shapes program improvement strategies by applying AI-enabled capabilities and industry best practices to drive transformational change, improve execution, and optimize processes across the LOB.
• Leads the development and optimization of program objectives and workflows, while orchestrating the deployment of cross-functional solutions to address complex business problems.
• Collaborates with management to apply AI-enabled capabilities and best practices to drive innovation, optimize processes and procedures, and advance LOB goals.

Process Efficiency - Continuous Improvement:

• Champions LOB-wide integration of continuous improvement, within programs, ensuring alignment of insights across many workstreams with business objectives and operational efficiency goals.
• Establishes and champions best practices for leveraging data insights at scale, influencing senior leadership decisions.
• Leads the development of innovative business-critical improvements to the solution's availability and reliability.
• Applies AI-enabled capabilities, where appropriate, to improve analysis, automation, forecasting, and process optimization across programs.
• Iterates processes based on feedback and KPIs, analyzing results through retrospectives.

Defines requirements and configurations of existing and new development tools, where applicable.

Collaboration and Program Leadership - Cross Functional Collaboration:

• Shapes collaboration across multiple teams, ensuring alignment of priorities and program goals.
• Leads process improvements across the LOB, working with senior leaders to implement team-wide efficiency-driven solutions.
• Communicates strategic security program updates and insights to leadership teams, shaping decisions at the LOB level.

Develops and refines engagement approaches for key stakeholders, ensuring informed decision-making at scale to improve program planning and execution.

Collaboration and Program Leadership - Program Leadership:

• Shapes and leads security programs to optimize organizational efficiency.
• Provides visionary security direction and mentorship to cross-functional teams.
• Drives transformative change, using AI-enabled capabilities, where appropriate, at all levels of the LOB, from initiation through delivery, while ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

Ensures that the program team and other stakeholders are aligned with the program goals and motivated, identifying and addressing conflicts and issues.

Data and Analysis:

• Shapes and directs the automation of comprehensive reporting, collaborating with development teams to drive continuous improvement of reports, dashboards, forecasts, and models for program execution.
• Applies AI-enabled capabilities, where appropriate, to improve reporting automation, forecasting, anomaly detection, trend analysis, and decision support.
• Utilizes data insights, to solve highly complex problems impacting the success of the program(s), including adherence to SLAs.

Conducts analysis on a large number of data sources, using AI-enabled capabilities, where appropriate, with high complexity, which may include competitive analysis, trend analysis, and KPI analysis, to drive data-informed decisions to support the program goals, presenting findings with immediate teams and stakeholders.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Shapes the strategic direction of collaboration efforts across stakeholder teams for high-impact programs.
• Serves as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment between program priorities and business objectives.
• Defines strategies for enhancing customer engagement, aligning service offerings with evolving business needs.
• Drives large-scale product and process enhancements, influencing and guiding the LOB.
• Develops and presents advanced strategies to mitigate risks to customer satisfaction, assessing the impact of mitigation efforts on broader group objectives.

Leads the alignment of varied priorities and Oracle commitments, ensuring optimal coverage and response to customer needs, minimizing organizational risk to programs.

Planning & Execution:

Manages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact security projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to requirements. Anticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.

Influences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic security objectives. Fosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success. Champions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.

Problem Solving:

Leads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts and serves as an escalation point for complex issues. Guides teams in applying innovative data-driven techniques and AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate, to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drive durable solutions that prevent recurrence.

Leverages deep industry security knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization. Contributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions). Maintains and evolves expertise in security areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices. Champions continuous learning and knowledge sharing across teams, including emerging AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate. Applies new knowledge to advance organizational capabilities, strengthen execution, and mentor others to do the same.

Develops innovative security solutions, applying AI-enabled capabilities where appropriate to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization. Evaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals. Designs and develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.

Performance and Development:

Serves as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy. Impart leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:
Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $115,300 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC5

Required Skills

• Cybersecurity Frameworks
• Data Analysis
• Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) Application
• Planning and Scheduling
• Process Improvement
• Security Architecture
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Technical Program Management

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