Principal Technical Program Manager

Oracle • United States,

7h

About The Position

This highly visible principal individual contributor role moves between organizational strategy, engineering detail, and hands-on implementation. The Principal Technical Program Manager independently leads ambiguous, cross-functional programs, translates business and regulatory needs into technical requirements, and builds tooling to reduce manual work and improve delivery.

The role partners with Engineering, Product, Quality, Legal, and Regulatory Affairs to integrate medical device requirements into development and operational workflows. It uses automation to improve requirements tracking, documentation, evidence collection, and readiness for regulatory reviews, audits, certifications, and product releases.

As a strategic partner to the Director of Operations, the role supports organizational planning, resource allocation, and executive decision-making. Success requires technical depth, sound judgment, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders while delivering measurable improvements across teams.

Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience in technical program management, software engineering, systems engineering, or technical operations, including ownership of complex cross-functional programs.
• Minimum qualifications provide alternative experience pathways: 11 years as a Program Manager leading large technical programs or projects; or a relevant bachelor's degree and 7 years; or a relevant master's degree and 5 years; or a relevant doctorate and 3 years.
• Strong hands-on technical capabilities and demonstrated experience building automation, internal applications, scripts, or systems integrations.
• Practical experience with Codex or comparable AI-assisted coding tools, including reviewing, testing, and maintaining generated code.
• Experience with technologies such as Oracle APEX, Python, SQL, REST APIs, version control, and CI/CD workflows.
• Direct experience working on regulated medical device products, including software-based medical devices or software within medical device systems.
• Working knowledge of medical device development and quality processes, including requirements traceability, design and development controls, risk management, verification and validation, and change control.
• Experience translating regulatory and quality requirements into technical plans, operational workflows, and documented evidence.
• Ability to engage with engineers on system architecture, integration dependencies, implementation tradeoffs, and release risks.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with VP- and Director-level leaders on planning, prioritization, and execution.
• Ability to independently structure ambiguous problems, influence decisions across organizational boundaries, and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn complex technical and operational data into clear recommendations.
• Executive presence, clear communication, and emotional intelligence, with the ability to lead discussions across Engineering, Product, Legal, Regulatory, Quality, and Finance.
• Demonstrated knowledge or ability in technical leadership, client relationship management, customer service, customer success management, compliance, innovation, thought leadership, cross-functional team leadership and collaboration, prioritization, roadmap management, software engineering, and quality management.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience using Codex to build and maintain internal tooling or engineering automation.
• Experience automating documentation, traceability, or evidence workflows within a regulated medical device environment.
• Experience supporting medical device submissions, certifications, regulatory reviews, or audits across multiple markets.
• Experience assessing and validating tools used in regulated development or quality processes.
• Experience scaling technical operations and establishing shared tooling across global teams.
• Preferred qualifications provide alternative experience pathways: 12 years as a Program Manager leading large technical programs or projects; or a relevant bachelor's degree and 8 years; or a relevant master's degree and 6 years; or a relevant doctorate and 4 years.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Oracle products and ability to educate customers on their effective use.
• 2 years of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
• 8 years of experience in an enterprise cloud services organization or working directly with large enterprise customers in areas such as cloud infrastructure, cloud services, networking, SaaS, scalable distributed backend services, or systems development lifecycles.
• 5 years of experience using software development lifecycle methodologies, practices, and associated tooling, such as Agile or SAFe.
• 6 years of experience leading cross-functional and cross-level matrixed teams.
• 3 years of experience facilitating large meetings and driving consensus among diverse stakeholders.
• 3 years of experience communicating program status, end-to-end delivery, and results to leadership.
• 2 years of experience in a relevant industry, such as cloud development, cloud operations, policy, risk, healthcare, financial, logistics, HR, regulatory compliance, or IT.
• 5 years of experience in data analysis and reporting.
• Project management and delivery certifications, such as CSM, PMP, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, or ITIL.
• 3 years of experience in software development, software development management, or software implementation consulting projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional technical programs from problem definition through implementation, establishing requirements, milestones, dependencies, success measures, and accountability.
• Design, prototype, implement, and maintain automation and internal tooling such as scripts, integrations, dashboards, and workflow applications using Oracle APEX, Python, SQL, APIs, or comparable technologies.
• Use Codex and related AI-assisted development tools to accelerate automation development, prototyping, testing, and documentation; review and test generated outputs and apply appropriate controls for regulated processes.
• Partner with Quality and Regulatory Affairs to automate requirements tracking, traceability, evidence collection, change tracking, and readiness reporting while supporting applicable documentation, review, and validation requirements.
• Lead integrated plans for medical device certification, regulatory reviews, audits, and international expansion, translating regulatory and quality requirements into actionable engineering and operational deliverables.
• Coordinate Engineering and Product teams to produce complete, consistent, and traceable documentation supporting development, verification and validation, risk management, and product launches.
• Drive end-to-end release readiness, including engineering dependencies, quality and regulatory deliverables, readiness criteria, risk resolution, and stakeholder communication.
• Partner with the Director of Operations on OP1/OP2 planning, headcount and capacity planning, investment prioritization, and organization-wide initiatives.
• Build reliable reporting and analyze engineering, operational, and workforce data to identify bottlenecks, flag risks, recommend actions, and measure improvements.
• Lead executive discussions, communicate technical tradeoffs, drive decisions across teams, establish reusable tools and practices, mentor partners, and maintain accountability.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits supporting employees with flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options.
• Volunteer programs that encourage employees to give back to their communities.

What This Job Offers

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