Lead Principal Technical Program Manager

What the role needs

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of highly complex, cross-organizational technical programs that align with business strategy and engineering objectives.
• Define program scope, milestones, roadmaps, resource plans, and success metrics while managing dependencies across multiple engineering and business teams.
• Develop and execute technical program strategies that ensure scalable, secure, reliable, and compliant delivery of products and services.
• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate program risks, dependencies, and critical issues, serving as the executive escalation point to drive timely resolution.
• Partner with senior leaders, engineering teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, influence decisions, and ensure successful program execution.
• Establish and drive program governance, including status reporting, executive communications, KPI tracking, forecasting, and program health reviews.
• Lead organizational change management efforts by managing evolving priorities, scope, schedules, and resource allocation to support business objectives.
• Drive operational excellence by defining and implementing program management best practices, standardized processes, and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization.
• Champion data-driven decision making by leading the development and automation of dashboards, reporting, forecasting, and analytics that improve program visibility and execution.
• Guide technical strategy and delivery standards to ensure solutions meet security, accessibility, compliance, scalability, and reliability requirements.
• Mentor and provide strategic guidance to program managers and cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high-performance execution.
• Build strong partnerships with executive leadership, customers, and stakeholders, serving as a trusted advisor and technical liaison for high-impact initiatives.

From the employer

At Oracle’s Health Data Intelligence and Life Sciences organization, we are focused on transforming healthcare and improving the health of people globally. Whether it is helping bring new therapies to market faster or enhancing care delivery, we are transforming the experience of providers, payers, and life sciences organizations. The data platform team (Oracle Health Data Services - OHDS) is foundational to software products being built and serves the critical role of transforming, enriching, persisting and serving large-scale health and life sciences data for AI agentic and application use cases. The OHDS team is looking for a Lead Principal Technical Program Manager to lead critical large programs to successful delivery. In this role you will partner with senior management and stakeholders across the org to align priorities and goals by understand the business needs and using your technical knowledge. You will lead highly complex, cross-organizational technical programs from planning through execution by defining scope, milestones, and delivery plans that support business objectives. You will drive execution across multiple teams, proactively managing dependencies, risks, bottlenecks, and escalations to ensure successful outcomes. This role also requires establishing and evolving program management best practices to improve execution, optimize processes, and drive transformational change across the organization. As a technical liaison, you will foster collaboration and alignment across stakeholder groups while providing expert technical guidance to advance automation and reporting capabilities. You will partner with engineering teams to develop scalable dashboards, forecasts, models, and insights that enable data-driven decisions and long-term program success. Key Responsibilities • Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of highly complex, cross-organizational technical programs that align with business strategy and engineering objectives. • Define program scope, milestones, roadmaps, resource plans, and success metrics while managing dependencies across multiple engineering and business teams. • Develop and execute technical program strategies that ensure scalable, secure, reliable, and compliant delivery of products and services. • Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate program risks, dependencies, and critical issues, serving as the executive escalation point to drive timely resolution. • Partner with senior leaders, engineering teams, and cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, influence decisions, and ensure successful program execution. • Establish and drive program governance, including status reporting, executive communications, KPI tracking, forecasting, and program health reviews. • Lead organizational change management efforts by managing evolving priorities, scope, schedules, and resource allocation to support business objectives. • Drive operational excellence by defining and implementing program management best practices, standardized processes, and continuous improvement initiatives across the organization. • Champion data-driven decision making by leading the development and automation of dashboards, reporting, forecasting, and analytics that improve program visibility and execution. • Guide technical strategy and delivery standards to ensure solutions meet security, accessibility, compliance, scalability, and reliability requirements. • Mentor and provide strategic guidance to program managers and cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high-performance execution. • Build strong partnerships with executive leadership, customers, and stakeholders, serving as a trusted advisor and technical liaison for high-impact initiatives. • Lead post-delivery reviews, measure business outcomes, and use data and lessons learned to continuously improve program performance, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction. • Contribute to organizational capability by driving innovation, sharing industry best practices, and supporting talent development through coaching, hiring, and knowledge sharing. Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements. Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only US: Hiring Range in USD from: $116,600 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity. Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: 1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion 2. Short term disability and long term disability 3. Life insurance and AD&D 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match 8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation. 9. 11 paid holidays 10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours. 11. Paid parental leave 12. Adoption assistance 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 14. Financial planning and group legal 15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted. Career Level - IC5 Lead strategic, cross-organizational technical programs that drive business outcomes and enable engineering excellence. Partner with senior leaders and engineering teams to deliver complex initiatives, optimize execution, and scale data-driven program management.