Principal Product Manager - Oracle HCM

Principal HR Product / Technology Leader

• Build solutions that make HR simple , scalable, and human.
• Create enterprise-wide impact by improving employee experience and driving operational efficiency across HR Functions by p artnering effectively with business leaders and engineering teams-define what matters, prioritize ruthlessly, and execute flawlessly.
• Design for the future using deep HR domain expertise and technical mastery in Oracle HCM, and other HR technology to enable end-to-end, scalable solutions. Use insights to optimize performance and shape long-term product evolution.

Raise the bar: mentor teams, champion best practices, and inspire excellence in a fast-paced, transformational environment.
Job Summary:
This senior level employee is primarily responsible for influencing and leveraging the technical direction of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions and for serving as an expert for technical teams. This employee is accountable for ensuring software solutions are managed with full adherence to industry best practices.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others.
• Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
• Provides insight into recommendations for complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.
• Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.
• Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.
• Provides technical expertise for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight, guidance, and an escalation point for the design and coding of component-based applications.
• Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications.
• Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs.
• Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders.
• Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions.
• Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs.
• Derives an overall strategy of data management, within an established Information Architecture, that supports the business model. Identifies information structures and detail to enable the development and secure operation of new information services. Takes overall responsibility for planning effective information storage, sharing, and publishing within the organization.
• Sets strategies for effective use of database technology taking account of the complex interrelations between hardware/software. Provides specialist expertise in the development, use, or operation of database management system tools and facilities. Provides expert knowledge in the selection, provision, and use of database architectures, software, and facilities, typically taking responsibility for a team of technical staff.
• Facilitates and serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions.
• Provides expertise and guidance to team members for systems incident responses for complex issues.
• Fosters and leverages partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specification.
• Maintains and enhances technical expertise and knowledge of industry trends by attending participating conferences, and developing a network with other IT industry experts.
• Leads consultation efforts to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures.
• Provides expert technical advice and recommendations to others within the organization on matters related to software engineering, including market trends, and new programs and applications.
• Reviews and verifies resource estimates for complex technical design, coding, and testing efforts.
• Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions, as required, to support technical solutions, serving as an escalation point for complex or unresolved issues related to requirements translation.
• As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Strategic Thinking
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Acts with Compassion
• Analytical Skills
• Application Delivery Process
• Application Design, Architecture
• Application Maintenance
• Application Testing
• Client Focus
• Client/Server Tools
• Crisis Incident Management
• Debugging and Troubleshooting
• Demonstrating Personal Flexibility
• Getting Work Done Through Others
• IT Industry: Trends & Directions
• Innovative Mindset
• Managing Diverse Relationships
• Microsoft Office
• Organizational Skills
• Prioritization
• Product Development Life Cycle
• Relational Database Management
• Relationship Building
• Requirements Elicitation & Analysis
• SQL/SAS
• Software Development Life Cycle
• System Testing
• Technical Communication

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum six (6) years experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC).
• Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Four (4) years of development experience with Oracle
• Five (5) years experience in systems analysis, including defining technical requirements and performing high level design for complex solutions.
• Four (4) years IT consulting experience.
• Four (4) years experience in a leadership role of a large matrixed organization.
• Four (4) years experience working with IT vendors.
• Five (5) years experience writing technical documentation in a software development environment.
• Four (4) years experience developing or configuring enterprise resource planning software.
• Four (4) years of IT experience developing and implementing business systems within an organization.

Primary Location: California,Pleasanton,Pleasanton Tech Cntr Building D Additional Locations:

• Maryland, MD
• Pasadena, CA
• Portland, OR
• Honolulu, HI
• Alexandria, VA
• Greenwood Village, CO
• Atlanta, GA
• Washington, WA
• Renton, WA

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Flexible
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-IT-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Department: KPIT ADMIN - HRPDT TA EMP ACT EE - 9601
Pay Range: $184500 - $238700 / year Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.
Travel: No
Flexible: Work location is on-site at a KP location, with the flexibility to work from home. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.