Principal Technical Program Manager – Data Center Predictability & Recovery (Nashville, TN)

The Global Program Controls organization provides governance, reporting, controls processes, cost management support, and portfolio visibility to help Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deliver global data center programs with greater consistency, transparency, and execution discipline.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a principal-level individual contributor to strengthen delivery predictability and recovery for data center builds globally. This new role operates within Strategic Operations & Execution (SO&E), an execution-assurance function within Global Program Controls, partnering with Data Center Infrastructure Delivery (DCID) project-build Technical Program Managers (TPMs) and functional teams during the final six months of a build—when cross-functional dependencies, schedule integrity, site readiness, commissioning, and customer/capacity commitments converge.

The successful candidate will maintain a deep, current understanding of the global build portfolio; validate project health using authoritative delivery systems; identify emerging schedule, dependency, and execution risks; and help teams convert recovery plans into verified outcomes. The role does not take ownership away from the assigned build TPM. Instead, it adds execution discipline, fact-based challenge, and cross-functional coordination where normal mechanisms are not yet producing the required result.

What You Will Do

Portfolio Delivery Health & Final-Mile Execution

• Own the execution-assurance rhythm for a global portfolio of data center builds within the rolling 0–6-month horizon, with primary focus on the final six months of delivery.Develop and sustain a detailed working knowledge of each assigned build: critical path, forecast dates, construction and fitout status, site-readiness conditions, commissioning/acceptance milestones, material and network dependencies, open risks, and decision needs.
• Validate schedule, milestone, risk, action, and forecast data in authoritative tools (including Oracle Primavera Cloud and approved reporting views); drive timely correction at the source rather than creating duplicate reporting.
• Analyze leading indicators and exceptions to distinguish data-quality issues from confirmed delivery threats; surface material trends, aging blockers, and forecast instability early.

Recovery, Coordination & Escalation

• Partner with Project Build TPMs to assess critical-path threats, validate root drivers and recovery assumptions, and establish practical actions with clear owners, dates, dependencies, and evidence of closure.
• Facilitate focused weekly and ad hoc operating reviews that produce decisions, commitments, and next steps—not status-only reporting—while respecting TPM and functional-team accountability.
• Coordinate across construction, site design, data hall design, network, hardware/materials, operations, sourcing, finance, safety, security, colocation suppliers, and other delivery partners to remove cross-functional blockers.
• Escalate choices and consequences when authority, resources, funding, prioritization, or leadership decisions are required; provide concise, fact-based recommendations and decision-by dates.

Tools, Process & Continuous Improvement

• Help define, test, and improve the tools, data standards, operating mechanisms, dashboards, and workflows that enable Project Build TPMs to execute consistently and predictably.
• Identify recurring failure modes and process friction in global delivery; translate findings into scalable preventive controls, clear ownership models, and practical adoption plans.
• Measure and communicate improvement using data health and freshness, action closure, decision cycle time, forecast stability, recovery milestone reliability, time in Red, and on-time delivery.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressively responsible technical program or project management experience leading complex, cross-functional delivery programs in a highly matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent programs with interdependent schedules, identify critical-path risk, drive recovery actions, and maintain credible forecasts under time pressure.
• Strong command of project controls and delivery data, including schedules, milestones, risks/issues, actions, dependency management, and executive-ready status communication.
• Experience using enterprise project-management and reporting tools; ability to quickly become proficient in Primavera-based scheduling and data-health workflows.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to turn complex facts into clear decisions, owner/date/action plans, and senior-leadership escalations.
• Ability to work on-site in Nashville, Tennessee, during standard daytime business hours, and travel up to 30% for global site visits, working sessions, and critical delivery events.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, construction management, business, information technology, or a related field; or equivalent practical experience.

This is a full-time onsite role in Nashville, TN.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience managing data center build, fitout, commissioning, or readiness programs, particularly the final six months of a build.
• Construction project-management experience, including contractor coordination, site execution, change control, schedule recovery, safety/quality gates, or commissioning/acceptance readiness.
• Experience in hyperscale cloud, colocation, mission-critical facilities, large infrastructure, or other complex capital-delivery environments.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Lean/Six Sigma, or comparable program/project-management certification.
• Experience improving operational tools, dashboards, data models, or governance processes through partnership with end users and technical teams.

Success in This Role

Success is measured by stronger execution discipline and more reliable delivery outcomes across the global portfolio: current and trustworthy project data; earlier detection of material risk; recovery plans that withstand fact-based challenge; actions and decisions closed with evidence; reduced time in critical status; and better confidence that customer and capacity commitments will be met. The individual will be a trusted, constructive partner to build TPMs—bringing rigor, urgency, and practical systems thinking to the most consequential final-mile delivery work.

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: $90,100 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:
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 - IC4