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Oracle

Builds databases, business apps and cloud services

Lead Principal Program Manager 5 - Customer Migrations

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in program management or a related technical delivery role, with a record of leading complex enterprise migrations, cloud infrastructure programs, or large-scale technology transformations.
  • Demonstrated success working directly with customers, executive-level leaders, and their staff on complex programs, including leading executive reviews, managing expectations, delivering difficult messages, and resolving escalations across multiple organizations.
  • Strong technical understanding of enterprise infrastructure and cloud services, including networking, identity, compute, databases, application dependencies, and disaster recovery, with the ability to evaluate technical risks and challenge assumptions with engineering teams.
  • Experience managing integrated plans across concurrent workstreams, including dependency management, resource planning, change control, cutover execution, and operational handoffs.
  • Sound judgment under pressure, including balancing customer commitments, technical readiness, and operational risk; assessing incomplete information; challenging assumptions constructively; making well-supported recommendations; recognizing when executive escalation is needed; and exercising discretion with sensitive customer and business information.
  • Strong written and verbal communication, including executive briefings, customer updates, and decision recommendations; ability to tailor technical details to the audience, explain business and clinical implications, and work through details with engineers responsible for resolution.
  • Proven ability to build credibility across organizations, facilitate difficult discussions, and influence senior stakeholders without direct authority, with a record of securing clear decisions and following through on commitments.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead customer migrations and related new customer deployments from planning through regional and environment readiness, customer validation, production cutover, stabilization, and transition to support. Maintain clear ownership across production, nonproduction, and disaster recovery workstreams.
  • Build trusted relationships with customer executives, clinical and technical leaders, and internal executive staff. Partner with Customer Success and consulting teams to understand stakeholder priorities, agree on scope and success criteria, and maintain realistic expectations as conditions change.
  • Own stakeholder engagement and communication plans across the migration lifecycle. Establish review cadences, decision owners, and escalation paths, and ensure customer-facing and internal teams communicate consistent commitments and changes.
  • Own integrated schedules and portfolio priorities across multiple customers and delivery teams. Reconcile migration dates with infrastructure capacity, provisioning lead times, validation needs, staffing, and change windows before commitments are made.
  • Work with engineering leaders to resolve dependencies across networking, identity, compute, storage, databases, application services, and end-user access. Understand how technical decisions affect customer workflows and the critical path.
  • Establish readiness and acceptance criteria with customers and technical owners. Lead go/no-go reviews using test results, open defects, security and change approvals, rollback plans, and confirmed support coverage. Present readiness gaps and tradeoffs clearly so decision makers understand customer and operational implications.
  • Coordinate cutover execution and go-live command centers. Ensure teams have current runbooks, named decision makers, and clear escalation paths. Set customer communication cadences and provide timely updates on service impacts, recovery progress, and changes to the plan.
  • Lead the program response to customer escalations and migration-related performance or reliability issues. Manage difficult conversations with composure and discretion, communicate what is known and uncertain, and bring the right specialists together. Establish recovery plans and track root cause and corrective actions through closure with accountable owners.
  • Lead customer and executive reviews with concise briefings on progress, risks, and decisions needed. Translate technical issues into customer, clinical, operational, and business impacts. Present options and recommendations supported by readiness, validation, defect, schedule, and service-quality metrics, and document decisions and follow-up actions.
  • Resolve competing priorities and stakeholder disagreements with sound judgment. Influence without direct authority, surface concerns early, and secure explicit agreement on decisions, owners, and delivery commitments. Escalate issues with clear options, impacts, and recommended actions.
  • Improve migration delivery through reusable plans, consistent readiness reviews, and better tooling. Partner with engineering on automation and approaches that reduce customer effort, carrying proven improvements from pilots into broader use.
  • Mentor PMs and partner with delivery managers on assignments, coverage, and capacity planning. Connect migration milestones to legacy environment retirement, capacity release, and removal of duplicate infrastructure costs, with a clear handoff for remaining work.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with healthcare technology, electronic health records, Oracle Health Millennium, or other environments where availability and operational continuity are critical.
  • Experience with OCI or another major cloud platform, data center migrations, Citrix or virtual desktop infrastructure, and customer connectivity.
  • Experience building program governance across a migration portfolio, mentoring technical program managers, and improving delivery through lessons learned, automation, and repeatable practices.
  • Experience with Jira, Confluence, and program reporting tools. Relevant cloud or program management certifications are a plus.

About the Company

Oracle

Builds databases, business apps and cloud services

Oracle builds databases, business applications, and cloud infrastructure for companies and public-sector organizations. Oracle Database stores and processes business data, while Oracle Cloud Infrastructure provides computing, storage, and networking for applications and AI workloads. Fusion Cloud Applications support finance, human resources, supply chains, and customer service, helping businesses manage everyday operations and reporting. Customers pay for cloud subscriptions and usage, software licenses, support, hardware, and consulting, with deployment options in Oracle's cloud or their own data centers. Oracle was founded in 1977 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Austin, TX
Founded
1977

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