About this opportunity
Oracle lists this Lead Principal Technical Program Manager (Data Center Operations, Technical Program Management) opportunity in nashville, Tennessee. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
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About the team
Partners with senior management and stakeholders to align priorities and goals using technical know-how in a fundamental engineering area or technical domain.
Description
Must Haves: Hands-on experience with data center and AI infrastructure knowledge.
Partners with senior management and stakeholders to align priorities and goals using technical know-how in a fundamental engineering area or technical domain. Establishes scope and milestones for each aspect of a technical program, aligning to the broader program plan and company strategies and goals, managing efforts between cross-functional teams to deliver programs or services. Shapes and leads technical 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 all issues. Shapes program improvement strategies, leveraging best practices to drive transformational change and optimize processes across multiple teams. Shapes technical program improvement strategies, leveraging best practices to drive transformational change and optimize processes across multiple teams. Shapes technical collaboration across multiple teams, ensuring alignment of priorities and program goals. Provides expert technical guidance to shape and direct the automation of comprehensive reporting, leading collaboration with development teams to drive innovations in reports, dashboards, forecasts, and models for long-term technical program execution. Shapes the strategic direction of collaboration efforts as a technical liaison across stakeholder teams for high-impact technical programs.
Responsibilities
Key
Responsibilities
Technical
Management and Execution - Technical Management:
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Leverages
technical knowledge to identify risks, manage scope, estimate program
timelines, request feasibility, testing requirements, and determine appropriate
resources.
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Designs
and shapes the strategy for product or service delivery, ensuring alignment
with the third party, security, export, and accessibility compliance
requirements.
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Integrates
program demands and resourcing.
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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.
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Leads
the transformation and optimization of processes to ensure the highest
reliability and resilience of products or services.
Technical
Management and Execution - Technical Strategy and Execution:
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Utilizes
technical knowledge to identify and manage program dependencies and risks.
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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.
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Shapes
overall planning activities, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.
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Defines
and enforces delivery standards and guidelines, ensuring security, scalability,
and alignment with best practices.
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Develops
Line of Business (LOB) strategies for change management and/or incident
response to enhance operational efficiency.
Program
Oversight - Strategy and Decision-Making:
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Leads
the alignment of priorities with customers, service, and stakeholder teams
through regular reporting to stakeholders and senior leadership.
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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.
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Leads
efforts to define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and measurement
methods for LOB performance.
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Develops
and communicates a comprehensive and strategic communication strategy of highly
complex objectives to partners and customers.
Program
Oversight - Program and Operations Management:
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Shapes and
leads both technical and non-technical programs and highly complex,
cross-organizational programs impacting products and business.
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Guides
and mentors program staff (e.g., development, release management, customer
success), providing expert technical support and strategic direction on
removing barriers, including risks and issues in workflows.
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Provides
guidance on developing and maintaining comprehensive program documentation
(e.g., status reports, program plans) and develops risk mitigation strategies.
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Ensures
attention to detail, including security and quality, in program management,
from planning to execution and reporting.
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Chairs
regular program status meetings, fostering collaboration and driving effective
communication across teams and leaders.
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Partners
with leadership to set service level agreements (SLAs) and productivity
benchmarks aligned with long-term business goals.
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Shapes
and leads forecasting program demands, funding, and resourcing.
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Leads
the deployment of change management for programs, such as priority, scope,
scheduling, development, requirement changes, and support.
Program
Oversight - Risk Management:
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Drives
the management of and responses to issues, bottlenecks, and risks, serving as a
point of escalation for all issues.
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Develops
plans based on the results of cost assessments, benefits analysis, and return
on investment (ROI) to improve decision-making and risk mitigation strategies.
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Makes
strategic decisions, balancing business needs, technical constraints, and
long-term goals.
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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:
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Shapes
program improvement strategies, leveraging best practices to drive
transformational change and optimize processes across the LOB.
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Leads
the development and optimization of program objectives and workflows, while
orchestrating the deployment of cross-functional solutions to address complex
business problems.
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Collaborates
with management to innovate and optimize processes and procedures to drive
achievement of LOB goals.
Process
Efficiency - Continuous Improvement:
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Champions
LOB-wide integration of continuous improvement within programs, ensuring alignment
of insights across many workstreams with business objectives and operational
efficiency goals.
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Establishes
and champions best practices for leveraging data insights at scale, influencing
senior leadership decisions.
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Leads
the development of innovative business-critical improvements to the solution's
availability and reliability.
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Iterates
processes based on feedback and KPIs, analyzing results through retrospectives.
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Defines
requirements and configurations of existing and new development tools, where
applicable.
Collaboration
and Program Leadership - Cross Functional Collaboration:
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Shapes
collaboration across multiple teams, ensuring alignment of priorities and
program goals.
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Leads
process improvements across the LOB, working with senior leaders to implement
team-wide efficiency-driven solutions.
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Communicates
strategic program updates and insights to leadership teams, shaping decisions
at the LOB level.
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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:
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Shapes
and leads programs to optimize organizational efficiency.
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Provides
visionary technical direction and mentorship to cross-functional teams.
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Drives
transformative change at all levels of the LOB, from initiation through
delivery, while ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
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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:
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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.
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Utilizes
data insights to solve highly complex problems impacting the success of the
program(s), including adherence to SLAs.
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Conducts
analysis on a large number of data sources 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 stakeholders.
Stakeholder
Engagement:
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Shapes
the strategic direction of collaboration efforts across stakeholder teams for
high-impact programs.
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Serves
as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment between program
priorities and business objectives.
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Defines
strategies for enhancing customer engagement, aligning service offerings with
evolving business needs.
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Drives
large-scale product and process enhancements, influencing and guiding the LOB.
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Develops
and presents advanced strategies to mitigate risks to customer satisfaction,
assessing the impact of mitigation efforts on broader group objectives.
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Leads
the alignment of varied priorities and Oracle commitments, ensuring optimal
coverage and response to customer needs, minimizing organizational risk to
programs.
Core
Responsibilities
Planning
& Execution:
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Manages
and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable
for critical high-impact 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.
Collaboration
& Partnership:
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Influences
cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on
strategic 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:
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Leads
specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point
for complex issues. Guides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques
to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drives the
implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.
Continuous
Learning:
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Leverages
deep industry 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 relevant areas by
proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards,
ensuring the organization remains current with best practices. Champions
continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development
across teams. Applies new knowledge to drive advancement and mentors others to
do the same.
Continuous
Improvement:
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Develops
innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase 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:
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Serves
as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent
strategy. Imparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent
development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and
hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.
Qualifications
Minimum Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
15 years of experience as a Program Manager leading large technical programs or projects, development/implementation projects or experience managing complex cross-functional programs, from conception to delivery
OR
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Software Development, Electrical/Hardware Engineering, or related field AND 11 years of experience as a Program Manager leading large technical programs or projects, development/implementation projects or experience managing complex cross-functional programs, from conception to delivery
OR
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Software Development, Electrical/Hardware Engineering, or related field AND 9 years of experience as a Program Manager leading large technical programs or projects, development/implementation projects or experience managing complex cross-functional programs, from conception to delivery
OR
Doctorate in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Software Development, Electrical/Hardware Engineering, or related field AND 7 years of experience as a Program Manager leading large technical programs or projects, development/implementation projects or experience managing complex cross-functional programs, from conception to delivery.
Job Skills:
Same skills as prior level
Preferred Job Qualifications
Education and/or Experience:
16 years of experience as a Program Manager leading large technical programs or projects, development/implementation projects or experience managing complex cross-functional programs, from conception to delivery
OR
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Software Development, Electrical/Hardware Engineering, or related field AND 12 years of experience as a Program Manager leading large technical programs or projects, development/implementation projects or experience managing complex cross-functional programs, from conception to delivery
OR
Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Software Development, Electrical/Hardware Engineering, or related field AND 10 years of experience as a Program Manager leading large technical programs or projects, development/implementation projects or experience managing complex cross-functional programs, from conception to delivery
OR
Doctorate in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, Software Development, Electrical/Hardware Engineering, or related field AND 8 years of experience as a Program Manager leading large technical programs or projects, development/implementation projects or experience managing complex cross-functional programs, from conception to delivery.
Budget Experience:
4 years of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
Cloud Services Experience:
13 years of experience in a reputed Enterprise Cloud Services organization/experience working directly with large enterprise customers (i.e., Cerner systems, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, cloud services, networking, SaaS products, scalable distributed backend services design with Cloud Native, and/or and systems development lifecycles).
Software Lifecycle Development Methodologies Experience:
10 years of experience using software development lifecycle methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)), practices and associated tooling.
Matrixed Organization Experience:
10 years of experience in leading cross-functional and cross-level matrixed teams to achieve project goals.
Stakeholder Facilitation Experience:
8 years of experience in facilitating large meetings and driving consensus among diverse stakeholders.
Presentation Experience:
8 years of experience in communicating program status, end-to-end delivery, and results to leadership.
Industry Experience:
7 years of experience in relevant industry (e.g., cloud development, cloud operations, policy, risk, healthcare, financial, logistics, HR, regulatory compliance, or information technology (IT)).
Data Analysis Experience:
10 years of experience in data analysis and reporting.
Project Management and Delivery Certifications:
Project management and delivery certifications, e.g., Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from Scrum Alliance, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI), Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification, ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library.
Software Development and Implementation Experience:
8 years of experience in software development, software development management, or software implementation consulting projects.
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