Oracle Corporation

Lead Principal Technical Program Manager

Oracle Corporation$116K — $264K *
Information Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience as a hands-on technical program manager.
  • Advanced knowledge of the full product development lifecycle, particularly for customer-facing cloud services.
  • Strong analytical and communication skills, adept at engaging both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Demonstrated problem-solving abilities within evolving and ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

  • Define project scopes, manage schedules, and ensure timely delivery of value.
  • Organize and lead project meetings while preparing progress reports.
  • Identify and manage risks, correct deviations from plans, and facilitate delivery planning.
  • Drive projects independently from initiation to delivery, ensuring budget constraints are met.
  • Collaborate with partners in program and product management to align with customer needs.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Short and long-term disability insurance.
  • 401(k) plan with company match.
  • Flexible vacation policy and 11 paid holidays.
  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
Full Job Description
Job Description

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.

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.


Qualifications

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $116,600 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

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