Senior Principal Technical Program Manager

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · United States

This role is for a Senior Principal Technical Program Manager at Oracle. The primary focus is on leading and delivering large, complex, cross-functional programs, with an emphasis on leveraging emerging AI technologies to drive efficiency, productivity, and business outcomes at scale. The candidate will define program strategy, manage interdependencies, drive alignment across various teams (engineering, product, etc.), and facilitate technical decision-making. A key aspect is identifying and implementing opportunities to use AI, ML, automation, and generative AI to improve operational efficiency. The role requires strong data-driven decision-making, stakeholder management, and influencing skills in a matrixed environment. While the role leverages AI technologies, it does not involve building or shipping AI models directly, but rather managing programs that do or use AI for operational improvements.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead and deliver large, complex, cross-functional programs from concept through execution and operationalization.
  2. Define program strategy, scope, milestones, success metrics, and governance frameworks.
  3. Drive alignment across engineering, product management, architecture, security, operations, and executive leadership teams.
  4. Manage interdependencies across multiple workstreams, ensuring timely execution and delivery.
  5. Identify opportunities to leverage AI, machine learning, automation, and generative AI technologies to improve operational efficiency and productivity.

Skills

Required

  • 12+ years of technical program management experience leading large-scale enterprise programs.
  • Proven experience delivering complex cross-functional initiatives involving multiple engineering organizations.
  • Strong understanding of cloud architecture principles, distributed systems, infrastructure, networking, security, and cloud operations.
  • Demonstrated experience driving cloud transformation, migration, modernization, or platform initiatives.
  • Experience leveraging AI, automation, and generative AI technologies to improve operational efficiency and business outcomes.
  • Exceptional written, verbal, and executive communication skills.
  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence across all organizational levels.
  • Demonstrated ability to use a data-driven approach to program management, leveraging metrics, KPIs, operational insights, and analytics to drive decision-making.
  • Proven ability to influence without direct authority across highly matrixed organizations.
  • Demonstrated ability to anticipate risks, identify bottlenecks, and proactively drive mitigation strategies.
  • Strong analytical, technical problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
  • Experience presenting to executive leadership and driving strategic alignment.

Nice to have

  • Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.
  • Experience with OCI, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
  • Certifications in cloud architecture, program management, agile methodologies, or AI technologies.
  • Experience leading enterprise-scale digital transformation programs.
  • Knowledge of AI/ML platforms, generative AI applications, and automation frameworks.
  • Experience working in highly matrixed global organizations.

What the JD emphasized

  • leverage emerging AI technologies to drive efficiency
  • improve operational efficiency and productivity
  • improve operational efficiency and business outcomes
  • Knowledge of AI/ML platforms, generative AI applications, and automation frameworks