Lead Principal Technical Program Manager

Oracle • Seattle, WA

1d • $116,600 - $264,100

About The Position

Partners with senior management and stakeholders to align priorities and goals, using technical expertise in an engineering area or technical domain. Establishes scope and milestones aligned with broader program plans and company strategies, coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver programs and services. Shapes and leads highly complex technical and cross-organizational initiatives that affect products and business operations, and serves as an escalation point for issues, bottlenecks, and risks. Develops strategies to improve programs and processes, drive transformational change, and optimize collaboration across teams.

The role provides expert technical guidance on automated reporting and collaborates with development teams to improve reports, dashboards, forecasts, and models. It shapes collaboration across stakeholder teams and provides strategic direction for high-impact programs. Responsibilities include technical program strategy and execution; program planning, oversight, and risk management; process optimization and continuous improvement; cross-functional leadership; data analysis and reporting; stakeholder engagement; and mentoring and talent development.

The stated U.S. hiring salary range is $116,600 to $264,100 per annum. The position may also be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, disability and life insurance, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, a 401(k) plan with company match, paid time off, paid holidays, paid sick leave, paid parental leave, adoption assistance, an employee stock purchase plan, financial planning, group legal services, and voluntary insurance benefits.

Requirements

• Deep technical knowledge in a fundamental engineering area or technical domain.
• Expertise in technical program management, including program planning, execution, delivery, and cross-functional coordination.
• Ability to manage complex, cross-organizational programs and align them with business strategies and goals.
• Ability to assess technical feasibility, scope, timelines, resources, dependencies, risks, security, scalability, and quality.
• Ability to lead escalations, risk mitigation, incident response, and complex problem-solving.
• Ability to communicate program objectives, risks, and strategic updates to executives, senior stakeholders, customers, and partners.
• Ability to use data analysis, KPIs, and reporting to guide decisions and measure program performance.
• Ability to lead continuous improvement, process optimization, and change management.
• Ability to provide technical leadership, mentorship, and guidance to teams.
• Ability to manage stakeholder priorities and customer needs while balancing business goals and technical constraints.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with enterprise architecture, security, export, accessibility, and third-party compliance requirements.
• Experience defining and managing service-level agreements, productivity benchmarks, and line-of-business performance measures.
• Experience with automated reporting, dashboards, forecasts, models, and development tools.
• Industry thought leadership, such as conference presentations, white papers, or research contributions.
• Experience contributing to talent strategy, candidate interviews, assessment, and hiring decisions.

Responsibilities

• Use technical knowledge to identify risks, manage scope, estimate timelines, assess feasibility and testing requirements, and determine appropriate resources.
• Design product or service delivery strategies aligned with third-party, security, export, and accessibility compliance requirements.
• Integrate program demands and resourcing, and lead forecasting of program demands, funding, and resources.
• Lead responses to critical security escalations, coordinating teams and departments, serving as a primary executive contact, assessing risk, and driving mitigation and resolution.
• Transform and optimize processes to improve product or service reliability and resilience.
• Identify and manage program dependencies and risks; support escalation responses and communicate mitigation strategies.
• Shape planning activities in alignment with enterprise architecture and define and enforce delivery standards for security, scalability, and best practices.
• Develop line-of-business strategies for change management and incident response.
• Align priorities with customers, service teams, and stakeholders through regular reporting to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Establish program scope and milestones, coordinate cross-functional teams, and align delivery with broader plans and company goals.
• Define and monitor key performance indicators and measurement methods for line-of-business performance.
• Develop and communicate strategic communications for complex objectives to partners and customers.
• Lead complex technical and non-technical programs and cross-organizational initiatives affecting products and business.
• Guide and mentor program staff, provide technical support and strategic direction, and help remove barriers, risks, and workflow issues.
• Guide the development and maintenance of program documentation and risk mitigation strategies; maintain security and quality throughout planning, execution, and reporting.
• Chair program status meetings and foster collaboration and effective communication across teams and leaders.
• Partner with leadership to set service-level agreements and productivity benchmarks aligned with long-term business goals.
• Lead change management for program changes, including priorities, scope, schedules, development, requirements, and support.
• Manage issues, bottlenecks, and risks, serving as an escalation point; develop cost, benefit, and return-on-investment analyses to support decisions and risk mitigation.
• Make strategic decisions that balance business needs, technical constraints, and long-term goals; remove critical blockers and determine technical and resource options for successful delivery and adoption.
• Develop program improvement strategies and optimize objectives and workflows; coordinate cross-functional solutions for complex business problems.
• Collaborate with management to improve processes and procedures and advance line-of-business goals.
• Champion continuous improvement across programs, align insights across workstreams with business objectives, and establish best practices for using data insights at scale.
• Lead improvements to solution availability and reliability; use feedback, KPIs, and retrospectives to iterate processes.
• Define requirements and configurations for existing and new development tools, where applicable.
• Shape collaboration across teams, improve cross-line-of-business processes, communicate strategic updates to leadership, and refine stakeholder engagement approaches.
• Provide technical direction and mentorship to cross-functional teams; lead organizational change from initiation through delivery and maintain alignment and motivation among stakeholders.
• Automate comprehensive reporting and collaborate with development teams to improve reports, dashboards, forecasts, and models.
• Analyze complex data sources, including competitive, trend, and KPI data, to solve program problems, assess SLA adherence, inform decisions, and present findings to stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders; align program priorities with business objectives and develop customer engagement strategies.
• Lead product and process enhancements, mitigate risks to customer satisfaction, and align priorities and commitments to meet customer needs while minimizing organizational risk.
• Direct timelines, deliverables, and budgets for critical high-impact initiatives; anticipate resource or timeline changes in response to shifting business priorities.
• Influence cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders, build partnerships, and incorporate diverse perspectives.
• Lead advanced problem-solving for complex or ambiguous issues, identify root causes, and implement lasting solutions.
• Monitor emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards; share knowledge, contribute thought leadership, and mentor others.
• Design metrics and implement and evaluate improvements to organizational processes, protocols, and workflows.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on talent needs and organizational talent strategy; contribute to interviewing, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short-term disability insurance
• Long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance
• 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, including flexible vacation for eligible salaried employees or accrued vacation for other eligible employees
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal services
• Voluntary auto, homeowner, and pet insurance
• Potential eligibility for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed