Senior Manager, Cloud Adoption Engineering

Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager, Cloud Adoption Engineering

Lead the Function That Enables Successful Cloud Adoption Oracle Government, Defense & Intelligence is seeking a Senior Manager of Cloud Adoption Engineering to lead the Cloud Adoption Engineering function and directly manage a team of individual Cloud Adoption Engineers supporting U.S. Federal Government customers. You will own the function’s operating model, technical standards, engagement priorities, team development, and performance. Your team will help customers establish the secure, governed, connected, observable, automated, and operationally ready foundations required to successfully adopt Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This role combines functional ownership, direct people management, technical leadership, and customer engagement. You will translate organizational priorities into a practical engineering capability that reduces adoption risk, resolves foundational blockers, and accelerates customer time-to-value.

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly
• This is a HYBRID position that involves a combination of remote, in-office work and meetings at the client site. Candidates must be based in the greater Washington DC area.

What You’ll Do Own and Lead the Cloud Adoption Engineering Function

• Define and execute the function’s priorities, operating practices, engagement model, and measures of success.
• Establish clear responsibilities and working relationships with Sales, solution architecture, customer success, professional services, support, delivery partners, and customer technical teams.
• Own engagement intake, technical qualification, prioritization, staffing, and capacity planning.
• Establish standards for discovery, readiness assessment, foundation design, implementation enablement, validation, and operational handoff.
• Maintain a roadmap for improving the function’s capabilities, reusable assets, technical coverage, and customer outcomes.
• Represent Cloud Adoption Engineering in leadership discussions, customer escalations, and cross-functional planning.

Directly Manage and Develop Cloud Adoption Engineers

• Recruit, onboard, coach, and retain individual Cloud Adoption Engineers.
• Set individual goals, assign customer engagements, manage performance, and support career development.
• Provide regular feedback on technical judgment, customer communication, deliverable quality, and engagement execution.
• Build shared proficiency across OCI foundations, cloud adoption, tenancy design and landing zones, networking, identity federation, security operations integration, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Develop specialist depth within the team and assign domain stewardship responsibilities to experienced engineers.
• Validate proficiency through applied exercises, reviewed deliverables, customer working sessions, and demonstrated field outcomes.

Direct Customer Engagements and Adoption Readiness

• Guide engineers through onboarding engagement activities.
• Ensure each engagement has an agreed scope, accountable engineer, customer stakeholders, success criteria, and expected deliverables.
• Oversee discovery of customer environments, workload dependencies, technical constraints, governance requirements, and operational responsibilities.
• Ensure readiness assessments document supporting evidence, gaps, risks, recommendations, owners, and target dates.
• Guide workload disposition and migration sequencing recommendations based on foundation readiness and dependencies.
• Review engagement progress, resolve blockers, and intervene directly when technical complexity or customer circumstances require leadership involvement.

Set Technical Direction and Engineering Standards

• Provide technical oversight across OCI tenancy architecture, landing zones, networking, identity federation, security operations, observability, governance, and automation.
• Lead reviews of significant architecture decisions, design tradeoffs, exceptions, and readiness recommendations.
• Ensure designs address security, resilience, enterprise integration, cost accountability, and operational sustainability.
• Establish repeatable engineering practices using Terraform, OCI Resource Manager, version control, reusable modules, and deployment validation.
• Maintain hands-on technical depth to evaluate designs, review deliverables, and help engineers resolve complex foundational issues.
• Ensure implementation teams receive actionable technical guidance, sequenced tasks, acceptance criteria, and clear ownership.

Build Repeatability and Ensure Responsible Handoffs

• Own the CAE field toolkit, including intake briefs, discovery workbooks, readiness assessments, architecture decision records, risk registers, and handoff checklists.
• Curate existing Oracle guidance, reference architectures, training, and labs, creating new material where confirmed gaps exist.
• Ensure critical readiness gaps are resolved or formally accepted by accountable owners with documented risk.
• Require explicit operational handoffs covering receiving owners, runbooks, support paths, unresolved actions, and operational responsibilities.
• Keep the function focused on adoption foundations, coordinating application implementation and ongoing operations with the appropriate delivery and operational teams.
• Use lessons learned and customer feedback to improve standards, enablement, and reusable adoption patterns.

Measure and Communicate Results

• Establish and report measures for readiness progression, blocker resolution, engagement quality, accepted handoffs, engineer proficiency, and customer adoption progress.
• Give leadership clear visibility into demand, capacity, delivery risks, and improvement priorities.
• Build trusted relationships with customer technical leaders and executive stakeholders.
• Connect foundation readiness to faster adoption, reduced implementation risk, and sustainable OCI consumption.

Required Qualifications

• Must possess or have the ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI with Poly
• Five or more years of direct people management experience leading technical professionals in cloud engineering, architecture, infrastructure, or delivery.
• Demonstrated experience owning a technical capability, program, or team operating model, including priorities, staffing, standards, and outcomes.
• Extensive experience guiding enterprise cloud adoption, readiness assessments, foundation architecture, and implementation planning.
• Strong technical knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, security, observability, automation, and operational readiness.
• Experience assessing application and database portfolios, dependencies, and migration requirements.
• Hands-on experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and repeatable engineering practices.
• Strong customer discovery, coaching, prioritization, and executive communication skills.
• Knowledge of federal cloud security and compliance requirements and their implications for architecture and readiness.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting U.S. Federal Government customers.
• Deep OCI expertise across tenancy design, landing zones, hybrid connectivity, identity federation, and security operations integration.
• Experience establishing or scaling a cloud adoption or customer-facing engineering function.
• Familiarity with Oracle applications, databases, middleware, and VMware environments.
• Experience with SIEM/SOC integration, DevOps practices, and cloud cost governance.
• Experience developing technical proficiency frameworks, reusable engineering patterns, and customer engagement toolkits.
• Relevant cloud architecture, networking, security, or automation certifications.

How You’ll Lead You take ownership of the function’s effectiveness and the growth of each engineer on your team. You establish clear expectations, make evidence-based decisions, and give engineers the guidance and autonomy to succeed. Your success will be measured by a capable engineering team, consistent engagement execution, and customers whose OCI foundations are ready for adoption and accepted by accountable operational owners. Join Oracle and lead the people and engineering practices that make federal cloud adoption successful.

Minimum qualifications include: 7 years experience with computer applications and tools required. Ability to travel 50% international and domestic.

Preferred but not required qualifications include: Bachelor of Science-level university degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering from accredited university; and/or relevant 7 years technical experience. Advanced degree in relevant field of studies highly desirable. 3 or more years of previous relevant technical management experience with computer applications and tools. Expertise in and an in depth and thorough knowledge of competitive and industry knowledge in the field of computer applications and tools; System and application design; Implementation of advanced product features; Project management; Solving technical problems with customers in technical environments; Written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills. 8 years experience and expertise in the clear communication of technical information to others through presentations, demonstrations, written communication and consultative solutioning experience.

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