Oracle Software Development Director - Phoenix, Arizona
Assists in the development of short, medium, and long term plans to achieve strategic objectives. Regularly interacts across functional areas with senior engineering management or executives to ensure unit objectives are met. Ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations is important. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Attention to detail and ability to multitask. Ability to travel as needed. Demonstrated leadership skills. BA/BS degree or equivalent. Advanced degree desirable.
The Senior Senior Director of the OCI Availability Engineering Project Management Office will be responsible for global business operations, planning, forecasting and execution management in support of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Availability organization and associated services, including Physical, Virtual, and Corporate Networking. This role will report to the SVP of Network Capacity & Planning and will lead a team of business analysts and program managers responsible for:
- Annual and quarterly business planning and ongoing (quarterly & monthly) tracking of commitments
- Developing and supervising planning activities
- Providing updates to engineering management regarding program performance using KPIs, advising executives of deviations and opportunities
- Driving automation and systems integration projects to improve accuracy and reduce human error
- Collaborating closely with Core Infrastructure engineering all of the above
- Providing value-add business analysis to leadership such as identifying concerning or improving trends, outlining areas of risk, and making recommendations on how to address
- Establishing and owning programs to generate consistent operational performance metrics across all OCI Availability Engineering teams
- Developing and monitoring metrics to measure other key performance indicators and group performance goals
- Driving policies and procedures that monitor and support OCI operational and financial business objectives
- Providing oversight, review and approval of capex and opex spend for new projects within OCI Availability Engineering
- Assisting in the development, tracking and execution of short, medium, and long term plans to achieve strategic objectives
- Oversight or advising on ad-hoc strategic initiatives at the request of Oracle executive management
- Regularly interacting across functional areas with senior management and executives to ensure unit objectives are met
- Identifying key areas for cost reduction and long term savings
- May be responsible to work with procurement teams to ensure collection of supplier disputes
- May be involved in certain vendor contract reviews and negotiations for pricing and terms
- May be involved with compensation and bonus process for OCI Availability team
Responsibilities
- 8+ years of professional experience in business operations or Cloud Infrastructure Engineering preferably in a multinational organization
- 5-10 years of experience leading and developing engineering program focused teams
- Passion for fixing problems, with a curious mind
- Strong analysis and reporting skills with attention to detail and accuracy at the senior executive level
- Ability to collect, organize, and display data in consumable format
- Closure attitude, sense of urgency. Problem identification and solving skills
- Able to meet ambitious turnaround time in a fast-moving environment
- Good relationship leadership skills, able to work across global teams who may not have a financial background
- Experience in working across business units and with cross-functional collaboration
- Manages information with proper sensitivity and has a high sense of Business Ethics
- Adaptable to change
- Fluency in English, excellent verbal and written communication skill
