Principal Technical Program Manager

Oracle•Nashville, TN

About The Position

The Principal Technical Program Manager leads moderately complex to complex passive-material new product introduction (NPI) programs from intake through qualification, release, and lifecycle governance. The role translates technical and business requirements into executable plans and partners with Fiber Engineering to establish milestones, dependencies, qualification activities, readiness criteria, and decision points while maintaining the distinction between program ownership and engineering technical authority. The position establishes and runs consistent NPI intake and governance processes, operating cadences, documentation, and reporting. It coordinates supplier onboarding and qualification, manufacturing readiness, capacity planning, part governance, design standardization, and SKU rationalization. The role also defines KPIs and dashboards, uses data to identify risks and root causes, and drives automation and continuous improvement. As a cross-functional program-management liaison, the role aligns Fiber Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Hall Design, HOM, DCBT/LVV deployment teams, Architecture, Procurement, suppliers, and other OCI stakeholders. It provides data-driven updates to managers and senior leadership, surfaces risks and decisions, and helps develop reusable program-management standards and templates. The position is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

Responsibilities

Lead multiple concurrent passive-material NPI programs from intake through qualification, release, and lifecycle governance.
Translate technical and business requirements into program plans, milestones, dependencies, qualification activities, readiness criteria, and decision points.
Manage program scope, schedules, risks, issues, decisions, deliverables, and cross-team dependencies.
Drive closure of blockers and escalations by coordinating stakeholders, options, owners, and due dates.
Establish and maintain NPI intake, prioritization, tracking, governance, and release processes.
Run recurring program reviews, qualification and supplier-readiness reviews, risk-management cadences, and leadership updates.
Maintain integrated plans, decision records, status reports, action trackers, and lifecycle-change records.
Promote adoption of the NPI operating model and identify process gaps, bypasses, or unclear ownership that may create risk.
Program-manage supplier onboarding and qualification, coordinating engineering evaluation, supplier deliverables, manufacturing readiness, and release dependencies.
Partner with Supply Chain on supplier capacity and allocation planning; monitor supplier coverage, qualified alternatives, manufacturing capacity, and geographic diversity.
Coordinate passive-part intake, OCI-controlled specification and drawing workflows, supplier validation, part release, and lifecycle governance.
Identify duplicate SKUs, non-standard BOM content, obsolete parts, and opportunities to reuse approved designs; track standardization and SKU-rationalization progress.
Partner with engineering and system/tool owners to improve catalog governance, approved supplier data, and repeatable part-creation and reporting workflows.
Define and maintain KPIs and dashboards for supplier coverage, intake compliance, qualification cycle time, forecast-versus-use, excess material, and catalog/SKU health.
Analyze data and root causes affecting material readiness, supplier resilience, forecast confidence, and NPI cycle time.
Identify and prioritize automation opportunities that reduce manual reporting and improve data quality and scalability.
Run retrospectives and continuous-improvement reviews and implement process improvements based on lessons learned.
Align stakeholders on priorities, milestones, ownership boundaries, and decisions; communicate changes to designs, parts, supplier readiness, and schedules.
Provide concise, data-driven program updates to managers and senior leadership, including risks, trade-offs, required decisions, and recovery plans.
Contribute to team growth through interviewing, onboarding support, knowledge sharing, and reusable program-management standards and templates.