Program Manager 4-Proddev

Job Description

The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team can provide you the opportunity to build and operate a suite of massive scale, integrated cloud services in a broadly distributed, multi-tenant cloud environment.
OCI is committed to providing the best in cloud products that meet the needs of our customers who are tackling some of the world's biggest challenges.
At OCI, we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors.
We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.
We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions.
We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves.
We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.
You are the builder here.
You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people where you'll be given the autonomy and support to do your best work.
It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.
You'll collaborate with a wide range of partners, including senior executives, architects, product managers, development teams, and external partners to align vision, define objectives, manage risks, create functional solutions, define/implement plans/schedule, and ultimately deliver impact.
The successful candidate will have excellent written and oral communication skills, cross-organizational and project management skills and thrive in a highly innovative, fast paced, evolving, and ambiguous environment.
You'll drive delivery, unblock execution, regularly participate in executive meetings to present progress, monitor budget/spending, and share project information with stakeholders.
This role also has a process documentation function.
The candidate will work with a skilled and motivated global team of engineers using agile methodologies based on Scrum or Kanban and incorporating enterprise agile practices from Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
The team embraces a DevOps environment – the Developers are the Operators.
You will not just be reporting status, but you will be a member of the development team that makes it all happen.
You need to be able to understand the technical issues brought to you by the development team and be able to jump in and help meet the team objectives.
We are specifically looking for a hands-on, Technical Program Manager to join the Cloud Foundation Services (CFS) team.
We provide critical cloud services to multiple Oracle Global Industry Unit applications.
CFS provides an ecosystem of cloud development: a microservice-driven platform, a software delivery tool chain, and a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) operations model to support high margin, highly elastic, and highly available Software as a Service (SaaS) applications.
Career Level - IC4

Responsibilities

The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong skills in the following areas:

Work in an agile DevOps continuous delivery development environment with geographically distributed teams is highly desired.
Collaborate with OCI IaaS engineering teams and TPMs to gather OCI level requirements as well as deadlines and communicate the requirements and deadlines.
Drive compliance initiatives such as security patching and OS upgrades.
Use Jira and agile processes to define the scope for the release, using epics and sprints work with the various leads, including managers and technical contributors to manage the design, functional and test specifications for the projects.
Publish status via dashboards to provide high level status and tracking, identify any risks (including technical risks) and put in action plans to mitigate them quickly.
Use your technical understanding to identify tasks, gaps, issues, and risks that can be technical in nature.
Own/drive/participate in array of initiatives/deliverables across the portfolio of service management capabilities, processes, and technologies.
Build out analytics specific to the area of involvement.
This includes KPIs, metrics, dashboards, and reporting.
The candidate should be able to use data to speak to the efficacy of their processes and capabilities.
Responsible for meeting deliverable deadlines

Recommend process improvements and act as the primary point of contact for any issues or questions related to the program.
Attend training as required to meet Oracle compliance and regulatory standards.
Perform daily task in accordance with compliance and regulatory standards.
Plan, organize, and manage all phases of the project lifecycle ensuring successful delivery.
This includes defining success criteria, developing, and managing project governance plans, project schedules, team goals, communication strategies, and project milestones.
Proactively identify and manage program risk, identifying paths to overcome risks, and escalating when necessary.
Track and manage the backlog on a timely basis for a release, meeting high quality and time goals.
Own and follow up on unblocking cross area development blockers and escalate to required senior team members as required.
Take large, complex projects and break them down into manageable milestones and deliver against tight deadlines.
Create risk management plans and maintain risk register.
Work with the Product Owner and team members on implementation decisions

Other duties as assigned.
Provide on-going written and verbal status updates to senior leadership.
For complex projects, you are able track progress and communicate status in a way that is easy to understand for stakeholders and team members.
Manage expectations, alignment, and communications with customers and stakeholders through cadenced meetings, reports, statuses, reviews etc.
Lead regularly scheduled status meeting with stakeholders.
Manage communication across organizations and cross-functional teams.
Prepare communication plans and strategies for stakeholder engagement.
Build relationships and collaborate globally with stakeholders and partners to deliver outcomes across the organization, ensuring a shared understanding of progress and performance.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop and maintain the roadmap, while setting realistic expectations.
Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range: from $87,800 to $199,500 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

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
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