Senior Planning & Deployment Engineer

Oracle•Reston, VA

7d•$126,200 - $264,100

About The Position

The posting title is Senior Planning & Deployment Engineer, while the role description itself identifies the position as a Principal Operational Excellence Program Manager. The role establishes a dedicated Center of Excellence at the intersection of people, process, technology, and data-driven analytics. It owns end-to-end process optimization using Lean Six Sigma methods, directs technology-overlay integrations and application architectures, and builds organizational capability through change management, role mapping, and skills development. The position aims to improve execution predictability, reduce defects, and capture value so Low Voltage Deployment Engineers and vendor teams can deliver cloud infrastructure capacity with velocity, quality, and repeatability. The position formalizes an Operational Excellence charter and multi-year strategy across a four-phase Target Operating Model lifecycle, establishes governance and performance dashboards, maps and improves global processes, and designs standardized procedures. It partners with systems design, architecture, and automation teams on technology integrations and workflow automation. It also defines Center of Excellence structures, capability development, and change-management plans; develops performance and value-capture measures; governs vendor service delivery; and oversees design-change requests and deployment risks. Success is described as transforming the Data Center Build and Deployment organization into a data-driven, continuous-improvement-led operating model. The role is expected to establish a mature Center of Excellence, deploy scalable technology overlays, standardize Lean Six Sigma workflows, reduce field friction, rework, and design defects, and accelerate data-center build velocity and value capture. Oracle describes a comprehensive benefits package that includes insurance, disability and life coverage, flexible spending accounts, commuter benefits, retirement savings with company match, paid time off and holidays, paid sick leave and parental leave, adoption assistance, stock purchase, financial planning, group legal, and voluntary insurance benefits. The stated U.S. hiring range is $126,200–$264,100 per annum; the role may also be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Requirements

At least 10 years of progressive experience leading large-scale operational excellence, continuous improvement, or business transformation programs in cloud infrastructure, data centers, technology, or complex engineering environments.
Certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or Master Black Belt (LSSBB/LSSMBB), with demonstrated mastery of DMAIC, Value Stream Mapping, Root Cause Analysis, and Statistical Process Control.
Demonstrated experience designing, building, and operationalizing a Target Operating Model and Center of Excellence from concept through multi-region rollout.
Strong technical background in technology infrastructure, data-center deployment, low-voltage engineering, or systems architecture.
Expertise in data analytics, baseline measurement, KPI dashboard creation, and value-capture framework design; examples listed include SQL, PowerBI, Tableau, Python, or R.
Extensive experience in organizational change management, stakeholder alignment, role mapping, and developing capability-development curricula.
Experience managing strategic partners, low-voltage vendors, and cross-functional teams in high-velocity environments.
Master's or bachelor's degree in engineering, Operations Management, Business Administration, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Formalize the Operational Excellence charter, canvas, and multi-year strategic roadmap across the Discover, Design, Operationalize, and Sustain phases of the TOM lifecycle.
Establish operational governance frameworks, including executive sponsor reviews, champion updates, and cross-functional steering cadences.
Develop and socialize a global transformation dashboard to track TOM maturity, value capture, and business outcomes.
Align program strategy with executive priorities across Data Center Engineering, Delivery, Supply Chain, and Operations.
Lead current-state process mapping and create a global heat map of process similarities and regional differences.
Apply Lean Six Sigma methods, including DMAIC, Kaizen, Value Stream Mapping, 5S, and Root Cause Analysis, to reduce waste, variation, and build defects.
Design future-state standard operating procedures, job aids, and handoff protocols that balance global standards with local requirements.
Establish feedback loops with process owners and field execution teams to support continuous improvement and reduce rework.
Partner with Systems Design & Architecture and Automation teams to evaluate application architectures and data-flow integrations.
Design and deploy an integrated technology overlay platform to automate planning, material tracking, DCR validation, and deployment handoffs.
Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort and data silos and improve documentation quality for hardware BOMs, cut sheets, and patching documentation.
Define future-state Center of Excellence structures, shared-services models, and role mapping across regional and global build teams.
Assess capability gaps and design an Operational Excellence curriculum for deployment engineers, program managers, and vendor leads.
Lead organizational change-management strategies, readiness assessments, and leadership messaging to promote continuous-improvement behaviors.
Develop support mechanisms for local implementation teams after deployment to sustain behavioral and procedural transformations.
Establish baseline performance metrics and executive dashboards for build velocity, defect rates, and resource utilization.
Implement a measurement and value-capture framework to quantify financial, operational, and throughput gains.
Define baseline measures and set throughput and quality targets for current- and future-state operating models.
Establish a Service Management Framework covering service-delivery standards across global, regional, and shared-services tiers.
Conduct structured business and operational reviews with low-voltage vendors, contractors, and alliance partners.
Hold vendor partners accountable to contractual SLA/KPI commitments and drive systemic issue resolution and quality improvements.
Align vendor and partner capabilities with long-term infrastructure scaling requirements and contract strategies.
Govern the Design Change Request process by assessing technical, financial, and schedule impacts on materials and field capacity.
Identify critical-path dependencies, schedule conflicts, and scope gaps across concurrent multi-region data-center deployments.
Establish escalation pathways and recommend resolutions to mitigate capacity risks before they affect field execution.
Institutionalize deployment best practices, coach emerging leaders, and foster continuous learning and knowledge sharing.