Program Manager (Healthcare) - TX

Oracle is a leading company in Digital Modernization, seeking an experienced Program Manager to lead a high-visibility healthcare platform initiative. The role involves end-to-end delivery management, cross-functional coordination, and ensuring quality and operational alignment across multiple teams and external integrations.

Responsibilities:

• Own end‑to‑end delivery across three core pods: SME workflow team, Java/GCP engineering teams, and QA/DevOps resources
• Drive program planning, sprint governance, dependency management, and milestone tracking in a rapidly evolving environment
• Maintain and manage RAID logs, ensuring visibility of risks, issues, and decision points for leadership
• Translate high‑level platform vision into actionable epics, timelines, and delivery plans
• Partner closely with engineering leads, architects, SMEs, QA, and product managers to ensure aligned execution across services, workflows, and integrations
• Coordinate with central infrastructure teams for provisioning environments, gateways, containers, and networking components needed for platform development
• Facilitate seamless collaboration between leadership teams and engineering resources
• Drive readiness for onboarding external partners and vendors, ensuring alignment of API contracts, workflows, data schemas, and validation rules
• Support integration planning across legacy systems, new microservices, distributed workflows, and external touchpoints
• Ensure documentation, processes, and onboarding playbooks are in place to scale the platform
• Ensure teams meet performance, latency, and reliability KPIs, working with engineering to track SLAs, logs, error tracking, and service health
• Align tightly with QA teams on test strategy, automation readiness, data validation, and release criteria
• Support operational readiness, including production support structure, incident flows, monitoring expectations, and rollout/rollback strategies
• Provide clear, executive‑level updates on program status, risks, dependencies, resource needs, and timelines
• Collaborate with senior leadership, external stakeholders, architecture groups, and compliance teams
• Drive transparency, accountability, and alignment across all delivery streams

Requirements:

• 8–12+ years of Program/Project Management experience, with at least several programs involving cloud-native, API‑led, microservices architectures
• Proven success managing large engineering initiatives with multiple pods, cross‑functional dependencies, and aggressive timelines
• Experience coordinating onshore/offshore delivery models and managing distributed teams
• Strong familiarity with backend engineering concepts — microservices, APIs, distributed systems, workflows, and data pipelines
• Experience managing platform builds involving multi-tenant capabilities or external partner onboarding
• Excellent communication, with the ability to distill complex updates into clear, executive‑ready summaries
• Experience in healthcare, pharmacy, payer, or provider systems, especially workflows like intake, eligibility, coverage, or approvals
• Exposure to GCP services (BigQuery, Spanner, Pub/Sub, GKE) and cloud operational models
• Experience with compliance-driven environments (PHI/PII data, regulated workflows)
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure provisioning, and environment readiness