Senior Principal Energy Program Manager

Oracle is seeking a US-based Senior Principal Energy Program Manager, reporting to the Vice President of Energy and Power Procurement. As an energy procurement leader, you will have day-to-day responsibility for shaping and driving Oracle’s approach to energy procurement, as well as supporting broader team efforts around energy innovation, hedging strategies, renewable energy and sustainability. Sustainable and scalable energy procurement is growing in focus across our business and this role will provide critical expertise and execution across Oracle Cloud data centers.

At Oracle, we are committed to maintaining 100% carbon-free electricity for our offices and public cloud offerings. Additionally, we are setting a new goal to achieve 100% carbon-free electricity for Oracle Custom AI Data Centers by 2035, including our large, custom AI clusters built for a single customer.

Oracle is seeking a US-based Senior Principal Energy Program Manager, reporting to the Vice President of Energy and Power Procurement. As an energy procurement leader, you will have day-to-day responsibility for shaping and driving Oracle’s approach to energy procurement, as well as supporting broader team efforts around energy innovation, hedging strategies, renewable energy and sustainability. Sustainable and scalable energy procurement is growing in focus across our business and this role will provide critical expertise and execution across Oracle Cloud data centers.

At Oracle, we are committed to maintaining 100% carbon-free electricity for our offices and public cloud offerings. Additionally, we are setting a new goal to achieve 100% carbon-free electricity for Oracle Custom AI Data Centers by 2035, including our large, custom AI clusters built for a single customer.

• Source and negotiate strategic power agreements with utility providers and independent power providers, ensuring the best possible outcome for Oracle.
• Responsible for day-to-day management of Oracle Cloud’s data center energy strategy across specific markets – with near term priority in U.S. deregulated markets but possible oversight in North and South America and EMEA.
• Create and manage requirements around energy sourcing including leveraging expertise of regulated and deregulated power markets, financial modeling and analysis, managing RFPs, contract negotiations, development and execution of forward purchasing strategies, collection and preparation of high-quality data.
• Work closely with retail energy providers, energy suppliers, and internal stakeholders to monitor real-time market conditions that will information short-term and long-term transaction decisions.
• Engage with energy and sustainability consultant(s) to evolve strategy and reporting.
• Monitor energy markets and specific utilities, IPPs, and electric grids for opportunities and risks and recommend strategies for Oracle to stay ahead of these challenges.
• Cross-functionally develop and manage relationships across Oracle including with capacity planning, data center infrastructure build, site selection, supply chain management, data center engineering, data center operations, and corporate sustainability and procurement teams.
• Coordinate with onsite generation and other solution providers and teams to ensure seamless power delivery across a range of technologies – utility grids, behind the meter solutions, gas plants, renewables etc.
• Partner with finance on developing annual energy budgets based on knowledge of current and future footprint and changing energy prices.
• Support team delivering power to new DC sites, focus on Oracle’s largest, primarily in US, including:
  • Developing comprehensive understanding of electricity supply equipment required to energize a given…