Are you interested in the exciting challenges of building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud? Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Group is building its next generation of Cloud IaaS/PaaS/SaaS technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant environment. Our mission is to provide our customers with an enterprise level cloud infrastructure platform that delivers unmatched reliability, scalability and performance for mission-critical databases, applications and workloads. Oracle would be opening up more Cloud Regions by end of 2020 than any of the other hyperscale cloud providers and we are looking for top talent who will help drive this aggressive growth.

https\://cloud.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure 

About the role\:

The OCI Outbound Product Management team is focused on driving Public Cloud Regions and ensuring that right internal/external ecosystem is in place for exponential consumption of cloud services post launch. Additionally we are working with large government and enterprise customers for specific cloud solutions tailored to their needs. We are seeking an experienced technical program manager to work with various internal/external stakeholder and help drive towards a successful Region launch. Candidate will also be leading various needle mover initiatives that require quick learning of emerging solutions and the ability to drive towards a successful rollout. The ideal candidate will have proven experience managing a set of technical projects across organizations. You are equally confident in explaining engineering analyses and recommendations to executives as you are discussing the technical trade-offs in product development with engineers. You can successfully collaborate with internal teams to ensure the complex, multi-disciplinary engineering solutions delivered by Oracle meets our customer needs on schedule. 

As a Technical Program Manager, you will apply engineering and program management skills in working with business stakeholders, project managers, and technical staff to deliver effectively against commitments that fulfill our clients’ business objectives. This includes defining project scope, managing schedules, identifying risks, driving mitigation plans, and clearly communicating project status to stakeholders. This results in the maximizing of the benefits that our clients realize from their investment in Oracle. This role is an integral part of an elite team with diverse skill sets that designs and delivers unique, secure and mission critical IaaS/PaaS/SaaS solutions for our government and enterprise customers. 

Responsibilities\:

• Engage with business stakeholders to understand use cases, define requirements, and perform business analysis.

• Work directly with customers to collect requirements and align technical solutions

• Apply project management discipline to develop plans, define scope, document requirements, and manage budget/schedule/resources for a complex group of projects.  

• Use best-in-class project management techniques to achieve project goals on time with a high level of quality, while managing expectations of stakeholders

• Work collaboratively with other Program Managers and Engineering leaders toward common Engineering vision and goals.

• Drive the tracking and management of roadmaps, project schedules, risks/mitigation plans, deliverables and KPI’s.

• Communicate program status, program readiness, business and technical issues, risks and their resolution across Engineering, including senior management.

• Utilize your technical background to drive resolution to technical issues across various teams

• Proactively identify and mitigate risks that threaten the success of both the business and the customer’s experience with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. 

• Develop a programmatic strategies and programs that support a version 1.0 product from strategy to end of lifecycle. 

Minimum Qualifications\:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 

• 5 years experience in cloud computing emerging technologies or related technical fields.

• 3 years experience in software program management and/or engineering management.

Preferred Qualifications\:

• Solid organizational skills, attention to detail, and multitasking capabilities. 

• Outstanding proactive communication skills\: written, verbal, presentations. 

• Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate and influence product/engineering service owners 

• Self-driven, analytical, and results oriented with proven sound judgment. 

• Maturity, judgment, negotiation/influence skills, analytical skills, and leadership skills 

• Technical understanding of enterprise level cloud technologies 

• Hands on experience problem solving with development teams 

• Experience working cross-functionally with cloud computing engineering, sales and marketing teams or related technical fields.

• Understanding of the software development lifecycle/ PMI or SCRUM Master Certification; experience with Agile methodologies, and working knowledge of Atlassian tools (JIRA/Confluence)

• Experience with version 1.0 product development and roll-out

• Experience working with both government and enterprise entities a plus.