Principal Technical Program Manager

As OCI expands into larger, more complex regions, NRB is looking for a Principal Technical Program Manager (IC4) who can drive execution across engineering, operations, construction, automation, and executive stakeholders.

 

This role is ideal for a TPM who thrives in fast-moving environments, leads through influence, brings technical depth, and can orchestrate large-scale infrastructure programs with clarity and precision.

 

The Principal TPM will own end-to-end delivery for one or more commercial region builds. You will define program structure, drive execution across cross-functional teams, anticipate risks, manage milestones, and ensure technical decisions align with broader architectural and operational goals.

 

You will partner closely with Region Builds, Multi-cloud, Network Engineering, Datacenter Engineering, Optical Transport, Automation, and Program teams to deliver high-quality, on-time regions that meet OCI’s reliability, performance, and compliance standards.

 

This role demands high ownership, strong technical grounding in networking or infrastructure, and the ability to influence at Director/VP levels while working hands-on with engineering teams.

 

Program Leadership & Strategy

• Lead complex, cross-functional region build programs from concept to launch.
• Establish program frameworks, roadmaps, and communication mechanisms aligned with OCI delivery standards.
• Define and drive critical path, dependencies, and risk mitigation across engineering and operations.

 

Technical Collaboration & Architecture Execution

• Translate region architectural designs into actionable program plans and execution milestones.
• Partner with architects and engineering leaders to identify gaps, define requirements, and ensure build-ready designs.
• Understand network fabrics, routing, transport, optical systems, automation pipelines, and datacenter infrastructure enough to drive effective conversations and unblock engineering teams.

 

Execution Excellence

• Build and maintain integrated schedules spanning datacenters, supply chain, cabling, network engineering, and operational readiness.
• Drive 24x7 delivery coordination during high-intensity phases, including escalations and incident communication.
• Ensure deliverables meet operational excellence and launch-readiness requirements.

 

Cross-Organizational Leadership

• Influence resourcing, prioritization, and scope across multiple VP orgs.
• Manage senior leadership communication, providing clear, data-driven status, risks, and decisions.
• Create repeatable processes and mechanisms to improve program velocity and predictability.

 

Operational Readiness & Launch

• Ensure monitoring, runbooks, automation, dashboards, and escalation paths are in place for Day-0 launch.
• Partner with NOC, Ops, and Engineering teams to ensure seamless handoff from build to operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive complex projects while prioritizing deliverable execution, mitigating risks, managing escalations, and ensuring stakeholder requirements are satisfied. Drive execution for timely, on-scope delivery of user and developer facing features.
• Work with multi-functional teams to establish and maintain roadmaps, setting appropriate expectations by managing competing priorities and influencing key partners. 
• Ensure product and service release quality is consistent with Oracle customer experience and operational excellence standards.
• Ensure resource requirements needed to support a particular program are in place. Look around corners and effectively escalate and provide visibility where resource constraints and bottlenecks are anticipated.
• Provide critical issue management, and make trade-off recommendations, while balancing the business and customer needs, along with technical constraints.
• Identify core process gaps, improve them, and establish organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity. 
• Provide ongoing written and verbal release status updates to senior leadership. Attention to detail is paramount.
• Demonstrate flexibility and resilience in response to changing or ambiguous situations, advisin