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Lead Principal Technical Program Manager

Eeho · Seattle, WA, United States

Operations ManagementExternal listingfull-timeabout 2 hours ago

About The Role

As a Senior Principal TPM, you will lead large-scale, cross-functional programs that support billions of dollars in infrastructure investments and data center expansion initiatives. You will help define and operationalize the tooling, governance models, processes, and execution frameworks used to manage OCI’s rapidly growing infrastructure ecosystem.

The ideal candidate is highly technical, execution-oriented, comfortable operating in ambiguity, and capable of influencing organizations at all levels — from engineering teams to VP/SVP/EVP stakeholders.

Key

Responsibilities

Technical

Management and Execution - Technical Management

Leverages

  • technical knowledge to identify risks, manage scope, estimate program
  • timelines, request feasibility, testing requirements, and determine appropriate
  • resources.

Designs

  • and shapes the strategy for product or service delivery, ensuring alignment
  • with the third party, security, export, and accessibility compliance
  • requirements.

Integrates

  • program demands and resourcing.

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.

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

Utilizes

  • technical knowledge to identify 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.

Shapes

  • overall planning activities, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.

Defines

  • and enforces delivery standards and guidelines, ensuring security, scalability,
  • and alignment with best practices.

Develops

  • Line of Business (LOB) strategies for change management and/or incident
  • response to enhance operational efficiency.

Program

Oversight - Strategy and Decision-Making

Leads

  • the alignment of priorities with customers, service, and stakeholder teams
  • through regular reporting to stakeholders and senior leadership.

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.

Leads

  • efforts to define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and measurement
  • methods for LOB performance.

Develops

  • and communicates a comprehensive and strategic communication strategy of highly
  • complex objectives to partners and customers.

Program

Oversight - Program and Operations Management

Shapes and

  • leads both technical and non-technical programs and highly complex,
  • cross-organizational programs impacting products and business.

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.

Provides

  • guidance on developing and maintaining comprehensive program documentation
  • (e.g., status reports, program plans) and develops risk mitigation strategies.

Ensures

  • attention to detail, including security and quality, in program management,
  • from planning to execution and reporting.

Chairs

  • regular program status meetings, fostering collaboration and driving effective
  • communication across teams and leaders.

Partners

  • with leadership to set service level agreements (SLAs) and productivity
  • benchmarks aligned with long-term business goals.

Shapes

  • and leads forecasting program demands, funding, and resourcing.

Leads

  • the deployment of change management for programs, such as priority, scope,
  • scheduling, development, requirement changes, and support.

Program

Oversight - Risk Management

Drives

  • the management of and responses to issues, bottlenecks, and risks, serving as a
  • point of escalation for all issues.

Develops

  • plans based on the results of cost assessments, benefits analysis, and return
  • on investment (ROI) to improve decision-making and risk mitigation strategies.

Makes

  • strategic decisions, balancing business needs, technical constraints, and
  • long-term goals.

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

Shapes

  • program improvement strategies, leveraging best practices to drive
  • transformational change and optimize processes across the LOB.

Leads

  • the development and optimization of program objectives and workflows, while
  • orchestrating the deployment of cross-functional solutions to address complex
  • business problems.

Collaborates

  • with management to innovate and optimize processes and procedures to drive
  • achievement of LOB goals.

Process

Efficiency - Continuous Improvement

Champions

  • LOB-wide integration of continuous improvement within programs, ensuring alignment
  • of insights across many workstreams with business objectives and operational
  • efficiency goals.

Establishes

  • and champions best practices for leveraging data insights at scale, influencing
  • senior leadership decisions.

Leads

  • the development of innovative 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

Shapes

  • collaboration across multiple teams, ensuring alignment of priorities and
  • program goals.

Leads

  • process improvements across the LOB, working with senior leaders to implement
  • team-wide efficiency-driven solutions.

Communicates

  • strategic program updates and insights to leadership teams, shaping decisions
  • at the LOB level.

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

Shapes

  • and leads programs to optimize organizational efficiency.

Provides

  • visionary technical direction and mentorship to cross-functional teams.

Drives

  • transformative change at all levels of the LOB, from initiation through
  • delivery, while ensuring alignment with strategic goals.

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

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.

Utilizes

  • data insights to solve highly complex problems impacting the success of the
  • program(s), including adherence to SLAs.

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

Shapes

  • the strategic direction of collaboration efforts across stakeholder teams for
  • high-impact programs.

Serves

  • as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, ensuring alignment between program
  • priorities and business objectives.

Defines

  • strategies for enhancing customer engagement, aligning service offerings with
  • evolving business needs.

Drives

  • large-scale product and process enhancements, influencing and guiding the LOB.

Develops

  • and presents advanced strategies to mitigate risks to customer satisfaction,
  • assessing the impact of mitigation efforts on broader group objectives.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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: $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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