Cloud Technical Project Delivery Manager

"Partners with customers, sales, engineering and product teams to design, demonstrate and deploy Oracle Cloud architectures that address customer business problems. Drives Oracle Cloud customer consumption by accelerating the adoption of Oracle cloud services including discovery, design and deployment.Engages with strategic customers, builds leadership relationships at multiple levels within organizations in order to design and implement solutions. Works directly with customers to gather requirements, develop architectures and translates business needs into solutions. May implement solutions and ensure successful deployments through code development and scripting. Displays product/application understanding through highly customized presentation demonstrations to customers, and at conferences, and events. Supports customer from Proof of Concept (POC) through production deployment of services via resource configuration, planning, and customer education/training. Creates and distributes technical assets (white papers, solution code, blog posts, and video demonstrations). Serves as a leading contributor for customers and sales on technical cloud solutions and customer success. Identifies gaps and enhancements to influence engineering roadmaps for customer driven features. Leading contributor, may provide direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. May interact with C level. Maintains expertise by staying current on emerging technologies.Minimum qualifications include: 8 years experience with computer applications and tools required. Ability to travel 50% international and domestic. Preferred but not required qualifications include: Bachelor of Science-level university degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering from accredited university; and/or relevant 8 years technical experience. Advanced degree in relevant field of studies highly desirable. Expertise in and an in depth and thorough knowledge of competitive and industry knowledge in the field of computer applications and tools; System and application design; Implementation of advanced product features; Project management; Solving technical problems with customers in technical environments; Written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; Needs analysis, positioning, and business justification. 8 years experience and expertise in the clear communication of technical information to others through presentations, demonstrations, written communication and consultative solutioning experience.*This is a remote/office based position which may be performed anywhere in the United States except for within the state of Colorado.**Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.**Title : Cloud Technical Project Delivery Manager**Location : Nationwide**Preferred Qualifications**Scope*As a Cloud Technical Project Delivery Manager, you will be responsible to lead customer implementation using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Oracle Cloud Platform services for customers in North America. These implementation projects will primarily involve Migrating Non-Oracle Applications to OCI, Migrating Middleware Workloads to OCI, Migrating Databases to OCI, and Designing and building new integrations and custom applications using Oracles Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). You will leading a team of Oracle Cloud Architects and Cloud Engineers on these implementations. You will oversee the planning, project management, and customer satisfaction for these implementation projects. You will also have financial project delivery responsibility including budget, schedule, and customer satisfaction. This is a critical Cloud Delivery leadership role.*Responsibilities** Collaborate with Oracle Customers, Oracle Sales Teams, and other Oracle organizations to drive Oracle Cloud adoption and customer go lives through successful projects implementations.* Work closely with the Oracle Cloud Delivery Architects and Engineers staffed on your project to execute the work and achieve the desired results (e.g., project objectives, customer adoption, cloud go-live, cloud consumption).* Lead the delivery of Oracle Cloud implementation projects using Oracle Included Services and Consulting Paid Services.* Plan and manage all Oracle Cloud Engineering Delivery Architects & Engineers across the software development lifecycle process (SDLC).* Create cloud implementation project plans including scope, assumptions, key activities, dependencies, risk & mitigation plan, and resource loading for the work.* Hold weekly meetings with customer project managers and customer leadership as needed.* Track and report progress weekly to customers and within Oracle Cloud Engineering.* Lead large and complex Migrations of Non-Oracle applications, Custom Applications, Middleware Workloads, and Databases to OCI.* Manage project delivery utilizing Oracle employees in US, Canada, and India as a blended delivery team.* Manage project schedule, issue/risk register, resources, and communications.* Manage, control, prioritize, provide latest status, and visibility to stakeholders responsible* Manage project scope and execute appropriate change requests* Manage project financials including revenue forecast, project margin, and project cash flow* Manage relationships throughout the customer organization including all project team members, business contributors and stakeholders, and executive management* Act as a liaison to prospects, customers and partners.* Establish trusted relationships with customers and prospects and understand their objectives. Solicit and provide product feedback from customers and prospects.* Participate in meetings and conferences with customers and partners to serve as a liaison between Oracle internal organizations such as Cloud Engineering, Technical Support and Product Development* Single point of contact for Executive escalations on Customer Engagements* Collaborate with Oracle Cloud Engineering, Oracle Support, and Oracle Product Development as needed during escalations.*Qualifications** 8 years of experience leading Oracle Cloud implementations, competitor cloud implementations from AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud, and using Oracle Technology like Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database.* Must have experience with managing Cloud Transformation and Cloud implementation projects.* Must have hands on technical cloud experience using one (1) or more of the following: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Oracle Cloud Platform (Oracle Integration Cloud, Oracle Visual Builder Cloud Service, Oracle Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) on OCI, Oracle Process Cloud Service, Oracle Content Experience Cloud (CEC), Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP), Oracle Database Cloud Service (DBCS), and Oracle ExaData Cloud Service.* Applicant must have been technically involved in a Migration of an application or DB to cloud or a cloud platform integration/application development effort.* Must have good understanding of Public Cloud Architecture concepts on how to execute a project.* Demonstrated ability to translate functional business processes and challenges into technology solutions to executive levels.* Ability to craft, review, and augment Delivery Statements of Work, and various project plans involving Oracle Cloud technologies.* Strong communication skills with experience developing and managing customer relationships.* High motivation and desire to do whatever it takes to help the customer and our company succeed* Project Management Delivery certifications like PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) and Agile Scrum are encouraged but not required. This is a very technical Cloud Delivery role, so the Cloud technical experience is the higher priority.*Detailed Description and Job Requirements*As a recognized authority and leading contributor, this technical project management professional, provides consistent innovative and high-quality solution leadership. Responsible for guiding the successful implementation of non-routine and complex business solutions ensuring high quality and timely delivery within budget to the customers satisfaction.Analyze business needs to help ensure Oracles solution meets the customers objectives by combining industry best practices and product knowledge. Effectively applies Oracles methodologies and policies while adhering to contractual obligations, thereby minimizing Oracles risk and exposure. Exercises judgment and business acumen in selecting methods and techniques for effective project delivery on small to medium engagements. Provides direction and mentoring to project team. Effectively influences decisions at the management level of customer organizations. Ensures deliverables are acceptable and works closely with the customer to understand and manage project expectations. Supports business development efforts by pursuing new opportunities and extensions. Collaborates with the consulting sales team by providing domain credibility. Manages the scope of medium sized projects including the recovery of remedial projects.8 years of experience relevant to this position, showing prior technical team leadership and project management experience. Demonstrated ability to follow solid project management principles. Comfortable working in a matrix management environment. Strong communication skills to deal with internal stakeholders, customers, and vendors. Product, technology or industry expertise relevant to the portfolio focus. Selling skills preferred. Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.*Travel:* No travel currently allowed for Oracle North America for remainder of CY2021; Yes, Typically 25%-40% Travel will be required after Covid-19 pandemic ends*Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.**/At Oracle, we dont just value differenceswe celebrate them. Were committed to creating a workplace where all kinds of people work together. We believe innovation starts with diversity and inclusion./*https://www.oracle.com/corporate/careers/culture/diversity.html**Job:** **Pre Sales***Organization:** **Oracle***Title:** *Cloud Technical Project Delivery Manager ***Location:** *United States***Requisition ID:** *21000E0I*"