Works with 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. Manages technical programs and complex, cross-organizational initiatives impacting products and business. Manages highly complex issues, bottlenecks and/or risks, escalating issues when appropriate. Leads technical program improvement, implementing best practices and driving cross-team process optimizations to improve processes. Leads efforts to integrate continuous improvement within technical programs, driving insights across many workstreams to generate recommendations that deliver operational efficiencies. Facilitates collaboration across multiple teams, driving technical discussions that align priorities and program goals. Provides technical expertise, direction and mentorship to cross-functional teams. Creates and automates reporting, partnering with development teams to continue improving reports, dashboards, forecasts, and models to help manage technical program execution. Acts as a technical liaison with or between stakeholder teams, driving effective collaboration for customer success within Oracle commitments.
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.
- Ensures
- that product or service delivery meets the third party, security, export, and
- accessibility compliance requirements.
- Drives
- rapid response to security escalations, coordinating across teams and
- communicating to executives to assess risk, determine mitigation strategies,
- and align and execute optimal proposed path to resolution.
- Forecasts
- program demands and resourcing to identify risks and ensure that goals are
- achievable.
- Leads
- the development and implementation of evolving processes to ensure that
- organizational SLAs are met.
- Technical
- Management and Execution - Technical Strategy and Execution:
- Utilizes
- technical knowledge to identify, track, 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.
- Supports
- planning by identifying dependencies and risks.
- Develops
- delivery standards and guidelines in alignment with Oracle best practices.
- Identifies
- and quantifies opportunities for process automations and advocates for
- prioritization.
- Contributes
- to incident management efforts and identifies opportunities to improve
- processes, as applicable.
- Program
- Oversight - Strategy and Decision-Making:
- Aligns
- priorities with customers, service, and stakeholder teams through regular
- reporting to senior leadership.
- Establishes
- scope and milestones for each program, aligning to the broader program plan and
- company strategies and goals.
- Assists
- in defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and measurement methods for
- program performance against established goals (e.g., scope, timelines,
- deliverable quality).
- Builds,
- maintains, and executes a clear communication strategy of objectives to
- partners and customers, influencing decision-making regarding best practices
- for Oracle systems.
- Program
- Oversight - Program and Operations Management:
- Manages
- both technical and non-technical programs and complex, cross-organizational
- programs impacting products and business.
- Guides
- the work of program staff (e.g., development, release management, customer
- success) while providing technical support and direction on removing barriers,
- including risks and issues in workflows.
- Maintains
- comprehensive program documentation (e.g., status reports, program plans) and
- documents risks and issues.
- Ensures
- attention to detail in program management from planning to execution and
- reporting.
- Leads
- regular program status meetings and keeps teams and leadership informed.
- Leads
- initiatives within the team to improve operational efficiency and enhance
- adherence to service level agreements (SLAs) and productivity targets.
- Ensures
- ownership and accountability for forecasting program demands, funding, and resourcing.
- Guides
- the deployment of change management for programs, such as priority, scope,
- scheduling, or requirement changes.
- Program
- Oversight - Risk Management:
- Manages
- highly complex issues, bottlenecks and/or risks, escalating issues when appropriate.
- Conducts
- comprehensive assessments of costs, benefits, and return on investment (ROI) to
- inform decision-making and risk mitigation strategies.
- Manages
- critical issues while making trade-offs between business needs and technical
- constraints.
- Removes
- blockers for the program and identifies new technical and resource options to
- efficiently deliver solutions and drive adoption.
- Process
- Efficiency - Process Optimization:
- Leads
- program improvement, implementing best practices and driving cross-team process
- optimizations to improve processes.
- Organizes
- and develops program objectives and workflows, while testing and deploying
- cross-functional solutions to address critical business problems.
- Collaborates
- with management to initiate and maintain processes and procedures that guide
- and assist teams in reaching their goals.
- Process
- Efficiency - Continuous Improvement:
- Leads
- efforts to integrate continuous improvement within programs, driving insights
- across many workstreams to generate recommendations that deliver operational
- efficiencies.
- Develops
- and standardizes data-driven decision-making frameworks, ensuring insights
- drive efficiencies.
- Identifies
- and addresses gaps to facilitate business-critical improvements to the
- solution's availability and reliability.
- 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:
- Facilitates
- collaboration across multiple teams, driving discussions that align priorities
- and program goals.
- Leads
- medium-scale efforts to optimize processes, identifying and implementing
- solutions that enhance team efficiency.
- Delivers
- program updates, risks, and opportunities to managers and leadership,
- influencing decision-making.
- Develops
- relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring their perspectives are integrated
- into program planning and execution.
- Collaboration
- and Program Leadership - Program Leadership:
- Leads
- programs to continuously improve organizational efficiency.
- Provides
- technical direction and mentorship to cross-functional teams.
- Influences
- and guides change at all levels of the group from initiation through delivery.
- Ensures
- that the program team and other stakeholders are aligned with the program goals
- and motivated, identifying and addressing conflicts and issues.
- Creates
- and automates reporting, partnering with development teams to continue improving
- reports, dashboards, forecasts, and models to help manage program execution.
- Utilizes
- data to solve moderately complex problems impacting the success of the
- program(s), including adherence to SLAs.
- Conducts
- analysis on a small number of data sources with moderate 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.
- Acts
- as a liaison with or between stakeholder teams, driving effective collaboration
- for customer success within Oracle commitments.
- Manages
- relationships with internal and external stakeholders to align program
- priorities and commitments.
- Identifies
- and documents stakeholder needs and works cross-functionally to implement
- solutions that enhance satisfaction.
- Identifies
- risks to customer satisfaction and advocates for improvements or mitigation.
- Assesses
- risks to customer satisfaction and evaluates mitigation efforts, providing
- solutions to the immediate team and related teams to ensure alignment on
- resolving these risks.
- Helps
- balance team priorities and Oracle commitments to ensure optimal coverage and
- response to key customer needs, minimizing risks to the program.
- Manages
- and coordinates moderately complex tasks, monitoring timelines and deliverables
- to ensure timely completion and adherence to requirements for a moderately
- sized project or initiative. Efficiently delegates, monitors, and prioritizes
- work across multiple projects, providing technical oversight and adjusting
- plans to address shifts in resources or timelines.
- Collaboration
- & Partnership:
- Collaborates
- across the organization to align on expectations and achieve shared objectives.
- Leverages understanding of business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to
- ensure proposed solutions meet their needs. Supports inclusivity by actively
- seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and
- respected.
- Identifies
- and addresses moderately complex issues by analyzing a wide range of data
- and/or information to identify solutions in accordance with standard practices.
- Proactively escalates unresolved or critical issues with a thorough assessment
- and suggests potential solutions. Reviews, contributes to, and documents
- problem solving strategies.
- Pursues
- learning opportunities to expand knowledge and skills and/or tools in new areas
- and stays abreast of the latest industry trends and best practices. Proactively
- seeks and leverages ongoing feedback and training to improve skills. Coaches
- and mentors junior team members, fostering continuous learning and knowledge
- sharing within and across teams.
Continuous Improvement
- Develops
- ideas, recommends updates, and/or collaborates on the implementation of process
- improvements to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes,
- protocols, and workflows across teams, and evaluates the impact on key
- stakeholders. Solicits feedback from others on ideas for alternative approaches
- and methods for continued improvement.
- Performance
- and Development:
- Contributes
- to the talent development pipeline by participating in candidate interviews,
- assessing candidates, and providing hiring recommendations.
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: $97,500 to $209,500 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.
- Career Level - IC4
