Project Manager

Job Description

Are you someone with a passion for taking on big challenges? Are you interested in large-scale, highly used cloud services? Do you love to own and drive high visible critical programs? If so, then Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure team is for you. 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.

The Senior Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) will be responsible for managing complex, cross-organizational programs that impact both product and business for OCI, specifically Oracle National Security Regions. In addition, this specific role requires a passion for solving high-impact problems, managing difficult to meet deliverables, and the ability to coordinate many teams to deliver on a common goal – improving our customer experience.

Our Senior Principal Technical Program Manager (TPM) is required to define strategies for process improvements where toil is to be eliminated, process is to be improved, efficiencies are to be gained, project status is effectively communicated to the target audience and a hands-on approach to people, process, and delivery is used. This senior level role will be managing deliverables with visibility up to the SVP level of OCI.

Coordinates work performed by IT staff and internal customers/partners by defining project specifications, performing feasibility and needs/impact assessments. Develops detailed project plans and manages all implementation processes including resource allocation, progress tracking, monitoring change control process, testing, documentation, training and on-time delivery within budget constraints.

U.S. Citizenship required, TS/SCI w/Poly preferred.

• Responsible for meeting deliverable deadlines
• Define requirements scope, including estimations for deliverables such as requirements and conceptual design tasks and related documentation
• Create risk management plans and maintain risk register
• Host regularly scheduled status meeting with stakeholders
• Manage communication cross-department / cross-functional teams
• Prepare communication plans and strategies for stakeholder engagement
• Plan project deliverables; including hardware, resources, hours
• Manage projects from implementation to closure
• Drive critical cross-org programs within Compute organization
• Escalate as needed to drive intended results

Career Level - IC4

Basic Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship required, active TS/SCI w/Polygraph security clearance preferred.
• 7 years leading complex technical / engineering programs, preferably in the government customer environment and in particular Cloud
• 15 years relevant work experience in program and project management
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Telecommunications
• Ability to effectively represent ONSR perspectives to partner organizations, product teams, and executive leadership
• Ability to work across and engage individuals and teams located across multiple geographies and or cultures.
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and experience interacting with both business and Development/Engineering staff at all levels including the executive level
• Maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills
• 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
Ability to mentor and develop junior TPMs

Preferred Qualifications

• Extensive experience with infrastructure, networking, cloud services, virtualization, or US Government
• 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 new tools and software quickly
• Experience using agile software development practices and associated tooling