Job Title: Oracle Technical Program Manager
Location: 100% Remote – United States
Employment Type: Contract
Primary Skills: Oracle EBS R12, Oracle WMS, Oracle SCM, Program Management, RAID Management, Stakeholder Management
Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced Oracle Technical Program Manager to lead and coordinate complex Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) R12 programs, with a strong focus on Oracle Warehouse Management System (WMS) and Supply Chain Management (SCM) modules.
The ideal candidate will combine strong Oracle technical and functional knowledge with proven program management and delivery leadership experience. This individual will oversee program planning, solution alignment, cross-functional coordination, stakeholder communication, risk management, and end-to-end delivery.
The candidate will serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, IT leadership, solution architects, functional and technical teams, and implementation partners to ensure program objectives are delivered within the agreed scope, schedule, budget, and quality standards.
Candidates should have experience managing Oracle R12 implementations, enhancements, integrations, or transformation initiatives, along with the ability to drive governance, manage dependencies, and ensure successful deployment and post-production stabilization.
Key Responsibilities
Program Planning and Delivery
Lead end-to-end program planning, including scope definition, work breakdown structures, project milestones, timelines, and integrated delivery roadmaps.
Develop and maintain comprehensive program plans aligned with business objectives, technical requirements, and delivery commitments.
Manage multiple workstreams across Oracle EBS R12, Oracle WMS, Oracle SCM, and related enterprise systems.
Track program progress, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies to ensure timely execution.
Proactively identify delivery risks and implement mitigation strategies.
2. Oracle EBS R12, WMS, and SCM Leadership
Provide program-level leadership for initiatives involving Oracle EBS R12, with particular emphasis on Oracle WMS and SCM modules.
Collaborate with Oracle functional leads, technical architects, developers, integration teams, and business process owners.
Ensure business requirements are translated into appropriate technical and functional solutions.
Coordinate end-to-end solution design and architecture reviews to ensure alignment with business needs.
Oversee integrations between Oracle applications and related enterprise systems.
Facilitate resolution of complex functional, technical, and integration-related issues.
3. Stakeholder and Client Management
Serve as the primary point of contact for business stakeholders, IT leadership, delivery teams, and implementation partners.
Facilitate steering committee meetings, program reviews, executive updates, and regular status meetings.
Communicate program progress, critical issues, risks, decisions, and dependencies to stakeholders at all levels.
Align business and technical teams on priorities, expectations, timelines, and delivery commitments.
Drive timely decision-making and escalate issues when required.
4. Program Governance and RAID Management
Establish and maintain program governance processes, reporting standards, escalation procedures, and decision-making frameworks.
Own RAID management, covering Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies.
Maintain RAID logs with clear ownership, action plans, mitigation strategies, and resolution timelines.
Prepare executive dashboards, status reports, milestone tracking, and program health assessments.
Monitor key delivery metrics and address deviations from the approved program plan.
5. Cross-Functional and Remote Team Coordination
Coordinate delivery activities across distributed onshore and offshore teams.
Establish clear workstream ownership, communication channels, handoffs, and time-zone overlap coverage.
Align functional, technical, integration, testing, infrastructure, and business teams on program priorities.
Monitor team capacity, resource utilization, deliverable quality, and workstream progress.
Resolve cross-team dependencies and facilitate collaboration across geographically distributed teams.
6. Solution Architecture and Change Management
Coordinate solution architecture reviews and sign-offs in collaboration with technical and functional leads.
Ensure end-to-end integration designs address business requirements and system dependencies.
Manage change requests and assess their impact on scope, budget, resources, timelines, and delivery commitments.
Maintain alignment between business requirements, technical specifications, solution design, and implementation plans.
Ensure design decisions and program changes are documented and approved.
7. Testing, Deployment, and Go-Live Readiness
Oversee System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect resolution, and regression testing.
Coordinate business users, QA teams, technical teams, and functional leads to achieve testing milestones.
Track critical defects, testing dependencies, readiness criteria, and outstanding issues.
Lead cutover planning, deployment coordination, and go-live readiness reviews.
Coordinate post-production support and hypercare activities.
8. Budget, Resource, and Performance Management
Track program budgets, resource utilization, delivery costs, and financial commitments.
Monitor delivery KPIs, milestones, productivity, quality metrics, and overall program health.
Identify resource constraints, budget variances, and schedule risks.
Ensure effective resource allocation across program workstreams.
Provide timely reporting on program performance, forecasts, and delivery outcomes.
9. Risk, Compliance, and Quality Management
Ensure adherence to security policies, compliance requirements, governance standards, and quality expectations.
Identify operational, technical, integration, and delivery risks and coordinate mitigation plans.
Maintain documentation, approvals, action logs, and program records.
Promote continuous improvement in program execution, communication, reporting, and delivery processes.
Required Qualifications and Skills
Proven experience as an Oracle Technical Program Manager, Oracle Program Manager, Oracle Project Manager, or Oracle Delivery Manager.
Strong experience with Oracle E-Business Suite R12.
Demonstrated experience with Oracle WMS and Oracle SCM modules.
Experience leading Oracle implementations, upgrades, enhancements, integrations, or transformation programs.
Strong understanding of Oracle supply chain business processes and enterprise application integrations.
Experience with program planning, delivery roadmaps, milestones, and dependency management.
Expertise in RAID management, risk mitigation, issue resolution, and escalation management.
Experience coordinating technical architects, functional consultants, developers, integration teams, QA teams, and business stakeholders.
Proven ability to manage distributed onshore/offshore delivery teams in a remote environment.
Experience overseeing SIT, UAT, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
Excellent stakeholder management, presentation, documentation, and executive communication skills.
Experience with budget tracking, resource planning, delivery KPIs, and program reporting.
Ability to manage competing priorities and drive decisions across geographically distributed teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience managing large-scale Oracle supply chain transformation programs.
Experience with warehouse operations, inventory management, order fulfillment, and related supply chain processes.
Experience coordinating integrations between Oracle EBS and warehouse, logistics, manufacturing, or other enterprise systems.
Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid program delivery methodologies.
Experience with program management tools such as Jira, Microsoft Project, or Smartsheet.