Lead Principal Technical Program Manager

** Job Description*
* As a Senior Principal TPM, you will lead large-scale, cross-functional programs that support billions of dollars in infrastructure investments and data center expansion initiatives. You will help define and operationalize the tooling, governance models, processes, and execution frameworks used to manage OCI's rapidly growing infrastructure ecosystem.

The ideal candidate is highly technical, execution-oriented, comfortable operating in ambiguity, and capable of influencing organizations at all levels - from engineering teams to VP/SVP/EVP stakeholders.

** Responsibilities*
* ** Key Responsibilities*
* ** Technical Management and Execution - Technical Management:*
*
- Leverages

technical knowledge to identify risks, manage scope, estimate program

timelines, request feasibility, testing requirements, and determine appropriate

resources.

- Designs

and shapes the strategy for product or service delivery, ensuring alignment

with the third party, security, export, and accessibility compliance

requirements.

- Integrates

program demands and resourcing.

- Leads

rapid response to the most critical security escalations, coordinating across

teams and departments and serving as the primary point of contact to executives

to assess risk, determine comprehensive mitigation strategies, and ensure

alignment and execution of the most effective path to resolution.

- Leads

the transformation and optimization of processes to ensure the highest

reliability and resilience of products or services.

** Technical Management and Execution - Technical Strategy and Execution:*
*
- Utilizes

technical knowledge to identify and manage program dependencies and risks.

- Supports

rapid response to escalations, coordinating within team and communicating to

senior team members to assess risk, determine mitigation strategies, and

execute the optimal proposed path to resolution.

- Shapes

overall planning activities, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture.

- Defines

and enforces delivery standards and guidelines, ensuring security, scalability,

and alignment with best practices.

- Develops

Line of Business (LOB) strategies for change management and/or incident

response to enhance operational efficiency.

** Program Oversight - Strategy and Decision-Making:*
*
- Leads

the alignment of priorities with customers, service, and stakeholder teams

through regular reporting to stakeholders and senior leadership.

- Establishes

scope and milestones, aligning to the broader program plan and company

strategies and goals, managing efforts between cross-functional teams to

deliver programs or services.

- Leads

efforts to define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and measurement

methods for LOB performance.

- Develops

and communicates a comprehensive and strategic communication strategy of highly

complex objectives to partners and customers.

** Program Oversight - Program and Operations Management:*
*
- Shapes and

leads both technical and non-technical programs and highly complex,

cross-organizational programs impacting products and business.

- Guides

and mentors program staff (e.g., development, release management, customer

success), providing expert technical support and strategic direction on

removing barriers, including risks and issues in workflows.

- Provides

guidance on developing and maintaining comprehensive program documentation

(e.g., status reports, program plans) and develops risk mitigation strategies.

- Ensures

attention to detail, including security and quality, in program management,

from planning to execution and reporting.

- Chairs

regular program status meetings, fostering collaboration and driving effective

communication across teams and leaders.

- Partners

with leadership to set service level agreements (SLAs) and productivity

benchmarks aligned with long-term business goals.

- Shapes

and leads forecasting program demands, funding, and resourcing.

- Leads

the deployment of change management for programs, such as priority, scope,

scheduling, development, requirement changes, and support.

** Program Oversight
- Risk Management:

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- Drives

the management of and responses to issues, bottlenecks, and risks, serving as a

point of escalation for all issues.

- Develops

plans based on the results of cost assessments, benefits analysis, and return

on investment (ROI) to improve decision-making and risk mitigation strategies.

- Makes

strategic decisions, balancing business needs, technical constraints, and

long-term goals.

- Removes

critical blockers for the program and determines optimal technical and resource

options to drive the successful delivery and adoption of solutions.

** Process Efficiency - Process Optimization:*
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- Shapes

program improvement strategies, leveraging best practices to drive

transformational change and optimize processes across the LOB.

- Leads

the development and optimization of program objectives and workflows, while

orchestrating the deployment of cross-functional solutions to address complex

business problems.

- Collaborates

with management to innovate and optimize processes and…