Detail oriented and relentless Principal Program Manager who are comfortable to roll up the sleeve to dive deep with engineers to create execution plans, identify dependencies and roadblocks, and hold owners accountable to meet committed deliverable for multiple security initiatives at the same time.
- Provides rigorous management and analysis of overall security posture for Oracle Health Foundations. Identifies, prioritizes, and successfully executes a broad portfolio of security initiatives and programs.
- Partners closely with multiple engineering teams to understand and capture requirements and dependencies for programs. Navigates complex dependencies between cross-functional/organizational teams and organizational priorities to optimize the critical path and addresses & mitigates risks.
- Effectively influences internal and external teams to prioritize; Drives mitigation plans and ensures ownership for each item and regular follow up through to program closure while ensuring resolution of risk and issues, escalating, as necessary.
- Establishes scalable and sustainable frameworks (process, tools, etc.) to enable the org to achieve and maintain desired security posture with minimal manual efforts. Applies project management standards and documentation best practices.
- Builds and maintains consistent reporting across numerous security programs and in sync with OCI WSM priorities and Oracle Health industry specific requirements.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Program Strategy and Leadership
- Lead highly complex technical programs involving multiple engineering teams, products, platforms, or business functions.
- Translate initiatives into clear program objectives, roadmaps, milestones, deliverables, and measurable success criteria.
- Define program scope, operating models, governance structures, decision-making processes, and accountability mechanisms.
- Align technical execution with product, customer, operational, security, and business priorities.
- Provide strategic recommendations based on technical constraints, delivery risks, dependencies, and organizational capacity.
- Drive programs from early planning and design through implementation, launch, adoption, and operational transition.
Cross-Functional Execution
- Establish integrated plans that account for dependencies, sequencing, staffing, testing, release readiness, and operational support.
- Facilitate planning sessions, technical reviews, program checkpoints, and executive steering meetings.
- Clarify ownership and ensure teams understand commitments, deadlines, dependencies, and expected outcomes.
- Identify execution gaps and work with functional leaders to establish practical recovery plans.
- Maintain momentum across programs with competing priorities and distributed ownership.
Risk, Dependency, and Issue Management
- Proactively identify technical, operational, organizational, financial, and delivery risks.
- Develop mitigation strategies, contingency plans, escalation paths, and decision frameworks.
- Track cross-team dependencies and resolve conflicts that may affect scope, quality, schedule, or business outcomes.
- Lead structured problem-solving efforts for complex issues requiring coordination across multiple organizations.
- Escalate material risks with clear context, impact analysis, options, and recommendations.
- Ensure critical decisions, assumptions, and unresolved issues are documented and communicated.
Technical Partnership
- Develop a strong understanding of relevant system architectures, engineering constraints, service dependencies, and operational requirements.
- Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to evaluate technical approaches, tradeoffs, sequencing, and implementation risks.
- Ensure technical programs address scalability, reliability, security, performance, maintainability, and operational readiness.
- Ask informed technical questions and help teams identify gaps in plans, designs, testing, deployment, and support models.
- Support architecture and design reviews by ensuring decisions are documented, dependencies are understood, and follow-up actions are completed.
- Translate complex technical information into clear business implications for nontechnical stakeholders.
Program Governance and Measurement
- Establish program metrics, dashboards, reporting mechanisms, and review cadences.
- Monitor progress against scope, milestones, quality standards, resource assumptions, and expected outcomes.
- Use data to identify trends, delivery risks, operational concerns, and opportunities for improvement.
- Provide concise, accurate status reporting to engineering leaders, business stakeholders, and executives.
- Ensure program reporting distinguishes completed work, planned work, risks, dependencies, and decisions required.
- Measure program success through outcomes rather than activity alone.
Communication and Stakeholder Management
- Serve as a central point of coordination for program stakeholders.
- Build alignment among teams with different priorities, incentives, and technical perspectives.
- Communicate program status, risks, changes, and decisions in a clear and audience-appropriate manner.
- Prepare executive briefings, decision documents, roadmaps, program reviews, and written recommendations.
- Facilitate difficult conversations and help stakeholders reach timely, well-informed decisions.
- Maintain transparency while avoiding unnecessary reporting overhead.
Operational Excellence and Continuous Improvement
- Improve program-management practices, templates, tools, governance models, and delivery standards.
- Identify recurring execution challenges and develop scalable solutions.
- Promote effective planning, dependency management, risk management, and decision-making practices.
- Create reusable frameworks that improve consistency across technical programs.
- Mentor other technical program managers and contribute to the development of the program-management community.
- Help teams balance delivery speed with quality, security, reliability, and long-term maintainability.
Required Qualifications
- Solid experience in engineering program management, product development, systems engineering, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional technology programs with multiple teams and interdependent workstreams.
- Working understanding of the software development lifecycle, including planning, architecture, development, testing, release, deployment, and operational support.
- Experience working closely with engineering, product, architecture, security, infrastructure, and operations teams.
- Proven ability to develop integrated program plans, manage dependencies, identify risks, and drive issues to resolution.
- Ability to understand complex technical concepts and communicate their business and operational implications.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to structure ambiguous problems and recommend practical solutions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience preparing materials and presenting program information to senior leaders and executive stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to influence decisions and drive accountability without direct authority.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience defining program metrics and using data to evaluate delivery health and outcomes.
- Experience using tools such as Jira, Confluence or equivalent program-management platforms.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading cloud, infrastructure, platform, enterprise software, cybersecurity, data, artificial intelligence, or large-scale digital transformation programs.
- Experience managing programs involving distributed systems, service migrations, platform modernization, or enterprise integrations.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
- Experience with Agile, Scrum, Kanban, scaled planning, or hybrid delivery models.
- Knowledge of security, privacy, compliance, change-management, or operational-governance requirements.
- Program Management Professional, Agile, Scrum, SAFe, or comparable certification.
Disclaimer:
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Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $91,000 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:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- 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.
- 11 paid holidays
- 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.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
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