Oracle believes in empowering people to do more, through world class capabilities in analytics. We are the Services Excellence team within Oracle Analytics, responsible for innovating, building and sustaining the service management technologies and capabilities that support our products.

Our vision is to enable our products to be world class services through the principles of customer focus, scalability, availability, reliability, and security. We invest in the development of process and technology to optimize our services.

We are seeking an experienced Release Manager with strong technical program management capabilities, and has a proven track record in excellence and can partner effectively to drive impact. The responsibility includes understanding product and release requirements, and transforming them into executable release plans. You will drive core release management responsibilities, and will manage the end-to-end delivery of Analytics’ products. You will work with internal/external partner teams to align Oracle Analytics’ priorities, identify and manage risks, define and implement release plans, and successfully deliver a quality product to production. It is the expectation that the RM is self-reliant and will take initiative in ensuring the success of each product release. The successful candidate will have a deep understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), excellent written and oral communication skills, strong analytical skills, effective cross-organizational and project management skills, and thrive in a highly innovative, fast paced, evolving and ambiguous environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive core release management responsibilities for multiple products and/or projects

• Manage requirements and define proper solutions (process + technology) with the mindset of extensibility and scalability

• Collaborate with senior leadership of Development and Product Management in defining release plans, and taking ownership of successful execution of the approved release plan

• Identify and manage risks that may impact release plans and facilitate risk resolution

• Establish key metrics to measure and monitor progress of releases and ensure delivery of quality products

• Observe and enforce release compliance requirements

• Lead release readiness assessment to ensure quality standards are met, and coordinate release handoff and production roll out with Sustaining Engineering and DevOps teams

• Manage expectations, alignment and communications with cross-functional teams and stakeholders through cadenced reports, statuses, reviews, etc.

• Collaborate and maintain good working relationships with other release and program managers, development and product management teams, compliance offices, and other cross-functional teams

• Support the Senior Director of Release Management in creating, improving, maintaining, and implementing release processes, in many cases using data driven analytics to substantiate decisions

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software Release and Program Management experience with demonstrated success in software.

• 3+ years of experience in workflow management and process optimization.

• Bachelor’s degree required. Education in technical area preferred or equivalent work experience

• Knowledge/background in software industry products/services/applications required with in-depth knowledge of Oracle’s products/services/applications preferred

• Self-starter with proven ability to learn quickly and work independently while dealing with ambiguous situations, with a strong positive attitude

• Demonstrated effective leadership and strong cross-group collaboration in solving complex problems

• Ability to anticipate and analyze risks and develop mitigation plans

• Detail-oriented, organized, critical thinker

• Understanding of the principles and frameworks of successful project management

• Strong communication skills (written and verbal) with proven experience in communicating with executive leadership