Principal Technical Program Manager

Description

This role is based in Nashville, TN

Technical Program Management & Execution

• Lead moderately complex to complex passive-material NPI programs from intake through qualification, release, and lifecycle governance, translating technical and business requirements into executable program plans.

• Partner with Fiber Engineering to define milestones, dependencies, qualification activities, readiness criteria, and decision points while maintaining clear separation between program ownership and engineering technical authority.

• Manage scope, schedules, risks, issues, decisions, and cross-team dependencies across new part creation, design standardization, supplier qualification, capacity planning, and new product introduction.

• Drive closure of blockers and escalations by bringing the correct engineering, supply, design, deployment, and supplier stakeholders together with clear options, owners, and due dates.

Program Governance & Operating Model

• Establish and maintain the NPI intake and governance process so new passive-material requests are reviewed, prioritized, tracked, and released through a consistent workflow.

• Create and run recurring operating cadences for program reviews, qualification status, supplier readiness, risk management, and leadership updates.

• Maintain program documentation including integrated plans, decision records, status reporting, action trackers, and lifecycle-change records.

• Drive adoption of the NPI operating model across partner teams and identify process gaps, bypasses, or unclear ownership that could create design, supply, or deployment risk.

Supplier Qualification, Capacity & Readiness

• Program-manage technical supplier onboarding and qualification activities, coordinating engineering evaluation, supplier deliverables, manufacturing-readiness milestones, and release dependencies.

• Partner with Supply Chain on supplier-capacity and allocation planning by ensuring NPI qualification status, product capability, technical constraints, and roadmap inputs are visible and current.

• Track supplier coverage by part and identify program risks where qualified alternatives, manufacturing capacity, or geographic diversity are insufficient.

• Support regular supplier-readiness and capacity reviews, ensuring technical risks and qualification gaps are reflected in cross-functional planning.

Part Governance & Design Standardization

• Coordinate the programmatic execution of passive-part intake, OCI-controlled specification and drawing workflows, supplier validation, part release, and lifecycle governance.

• Drive visibility to duplicate SKUs, non-standard BOM content, obsolete parts, and opportunities to reuse approved OCI designs before creating net-new products.

• Partner with engineering and system/tool owners to improve part catalog governance, approved supplier data, and automation of repeatable part-creation and reporting workflows.

• Track progress against standardization and SKU-rationalization goals and communicate blockers requiring cross-functional decisions.

Data, KPI's & Continuous Improvement

• Define and maintain program KPIs and dashboards that provide actionable visibility into supplier coverage, NPI intake compliance, qualification cycle time, forecast-versus-use, excess material, and catalog/SKU health.

• Use data to identify trends, gaps, and root causes that affect material readiness, supplier resilience, forecast confidence, or NPI cycle time.

• Identify and prioritize automation opportunities that reduce manual reporting, improve data quality, and create a more scalable NPI operating model.

• Run retrospectives and continuous-improvement reviews, converting lessons learned from suppliers, design teams, and field deployment into process improvements.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a primary program-management liaison across Fiber Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Hall Design, HOM, DCBT/LVV deployment teams, Architecture, Procurement, suppliers, and other OCI stakeholders.

• Align stakeholders on priorities, milestones, ownership boundaries, and decisions, ensuring changes to designs, parts, supplier readiness, or schedules are communicated in all directions.

• Provide concise, data-driven program updates to managers and senior leadership, clearly surfacing risks, trade-offs, decisions required, and recovery plans.

• Build durable working relationships across technical and operational teams to support global deployment scale without duplicating the execution ownership of partner organizations.

Responsibilities

Planning & Execution

Manage multiple concurrent NPI initiatives with clear scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and deliverables; adjust plans as product, supplier, or deployment priorities change.

Collaboration & Partnerships

Work across engineering, supply, design, deployment, and supplier organizations to align expectations and deliver shared outcomes while maintaining clear functional ownership.

Problem Solving

Analyze ambiguous program and data issues, identify root causes and options, and drive timely decisions or escalations with recommended mitigation paths.

Continuous Improvements

Develop and implement scalable process improvements, governance mechanisms, dashboards, and automation that improve NPI speed, quality, data integrity, and stakeholder visibility

Communication

Produce clear written and verbal updates for technical teams and leadership, translating complex program status into decisions, risks, and actions.

Performance & Development

Contribute to team growth through interviewing, onboarding support, knowledge sharing, and development of reusable program-management standards and templates.

Qualifications

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: $91,000 to $209,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus and equity.

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:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• 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.
• 11 paid holidays
• 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.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

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