Principal Technical Program Manager

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.

We offer rare opportunities for creative, hands-on product owners with the expertise and passion to seek 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 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 monitor the project from initiation through delivery. Organize the interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget constraints. You will assign and monitor work of systems analysis and program staff, providing technical support and direction.

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 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.

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 knowledge and understanding of business need with the ability to establish/maintain high level of customer trust and confidence.
• Strong 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.
• Strong skills to evaluate product performance metrics, as well as diagnose and resolve issues.
• 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.
• 3+ years of experience as a member of a software development or product development team 
• 7+ 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 either OCI, AWS, Azure or Google IaaS, SaaS and PaaS services.

Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

Manage the development and implementation process of a specific company product involving departmental or cross-functional teams focused on the delivery of new or existing products. Plan and direct schedules and monitor budget/spending. Monitor the project from initiation through delivery. Organize the interdepartmental activities ensuring completion of the project/product on schedule and within budget constraints. Assign and monitor work of systems analysis and program staff, providing technical support and direction.

Qualifications
Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $97,500 to $199,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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.