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Principal Technical Program Manager

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 27 Jul 2026

💰 $209,500/yr($97,500/yr – $209,500/yr)

About the role

Works with management and stakeholders to align priorities and goals using technical know-how in a fundamental engineering area or technical domain. Establishes scope and milestones for each aspect of a technical program, aligning to the broader program plan and company strategies and goals. Manages technical programs and complex, cross-organizational initiatives impacting products and business. Manages highly complex issues, bottlenecks and/or risks, escalating issues when appropriate. Leads technical program improvement, implementing best practices and driving cross-team process optimizations to improve processes. Leads efforts to integrate continuous improvement within technical programs, driving insights across many workstreams to generate recommendations that deliver operational efficiencies. Facilitates collaboration across multiple teams, driving technical discussions that align priorities and program goals. Provides technical expertise, direction and mentorship to cross-functional teams. Creates and automates reporting, partnering with development teams to continue improving reports, dashboards, forecasts, and models to help manage technical program execution. Acts as a technical liaison with or between stakeholder teams, driving effective collaboration for customer success within Oracle commitments.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Management and Execution - Technical Management:

– Leverages technical knowledge to identify risks, manage scope, estimate program timelines, request feasibility, testing requirements, and determine appropriate resources.

– Ensures that product or service delivery meets the third party, security, export, and accessibility compliance requirements.

– Drives rapid response to security escalations, coordinating across teams and communicating to executives to assess risk, determine mitigation strategies, and align and execute optimal proposed path to resolution.

– Forecasts program demands and resourcing to identify risks and ensure that goals are achievable.

– Leads the development and implementation of evolving processes to ensure that organizational SLAs are met.

Technical Management and Execution - Technical Strategy and Execution:

– Utilizes technical knowledge to identify, track, and manage program dependencies and risks.

– Supports rapid response to escalations, coordinating within team and communicating to senior team members to assess risk, determine mitigation strategies, and execute the optimal proposed path to resolution.

– Supports planning by identifying dependencies and risks.

– Develops delivery standards and guidelines in alignment with Oracle best practices.

– Identifies and quantifies opportunities for process automations and advocates for prioritization.

– Contributes to incident management efforts and identifies opportunities to improve processes, as applicable.

Program Oversight - Strategy and Decision-Making:

– Aligns priorities with customers, service, and stakeholder teams through regular reporting to senior leadership.

– Establishes scope and milestones for each program, aligning to the broader program plan and company strategies and goals.

– Assists in defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and measurement methods for program performance against established goals (e.g., scope, timelines, deliverable quality).

– Builds, maintains, and executes a clear communication strategy of objectives to partners and customers, influencing decision-making regarding best practices for Oracle systems.

Program Oversight - Program and Operations Management:

– Manages both technical and non-technical programs and complex, cross-organizational programs impacting products and business.

– Guides the work of program staff (e.g., development, release management, customer success) while providing technical support and direction on