Director of Product Management - Mainframe Modernization

Oracle Director of Product Management - Mainframe Modernization

Are you passionate enough to be the voice of the customer inside Oracle’s Mission-Critical Technologies development team and translate mainframe modernization market opportunities into tangible product requirements?

Are you excited enough to tackle the challenges of mainframe modernization and migration to cloud and support customers exploring migration approaches, handling assessments of their mainframe environments, creating proposals and target architectures, supporting POCs, and solving the problems inherent in migrating mission-critical legacy applications and data to distributed systems?

If you’ve answered “YES” to the above questions, this could be the right job description for you.

This Director of Product Management position is for someone who is passionate about helping mainframe customers realize the modernization benefits and cost savings of open, distributed systems, while protecting decades of their investment in application business logic and data models. Someone who is comfortable presenting to C-level executives and conducting a hands-on workshop for developers. As a Director of Product Management in a world-wide geographically dispersed team, you will be at the ground level of driving mainframe migration initiatives across financial services, government, and other industries and will play a key role in the evolution of Oracle’s solutions for mainframe rehosting and modernization, go-to-market planning and execution.

You must have a good understanding of both IBM mainframe systems and open systems, and be comfortable with OLTP and Batch technologies used in both worlds and their unique requirements and capabilities. As a mainframe subject matter expert, you should be able to map IBM z/OS components and system interactions to distributed systems architecture, while being very hands-on, able to explore many parts of the stack and explain the underlying technology principles, Oracle’s solutions differentiators, and roadmap to customer executives, IT and business leaders, architects, and developers. You should be able to deploy and demonstrate Oracle’s technology for mainframe emulation with compelling demos, integrating Transaction Managers, Database, and other Oracle technologies, and help customers develop and troubleshoot POCs. You should also be excited to delve into customer business challenges and drivers for mainframe modernization, determine the key factors influencing their decisions, and propose solutions either through RFP responses or unsolicited proposals. Learning from these efforts and customer opportunities, you should be identifying new areas for enhancing Oracle solutions and driving an engineering roadmap for continuous innovation. This position may involve moderate travel with a mix of inbound and outbound PM responsibilities. It will be very hands-on with the products comprising Oracle’s Tuxedo Application Runtimes and Application Rehosting tools, involving close collaboration with product engineering, QA, and documentation teams in an agile environment. You will interpret and filter customers’ needs translating them into feasible requirements for the product family, work with the product team to prioritize the requirements and define a solution, and deliver responses to the customers for the new features, enhancements, and other actions by the product team. You will also solicit beta customers for testing new releases and features and collect feedback for the product team. The PM will also engage with many teams involved in supporting GTM, develop content for marketing assets, deliver training workshops, and provide deal support to the field teams and partners around the world to enable, engage, discover, navigate, and support deals through pre-sales phases and to support post-sale delivery by Oracle and partner consulting teams.

Required Qualifications:

1. 5+ years in senior development, PM, or Architecture roles in IBM z/OS environment
2. 3+ years in PM or Architecture role in distributed systems and/or cloud services with progressively increasing responsibilities for defining, architecting, and bringing to market large scale, mission-critical distributed systems.
3. Experience working in highly distributed teams located across continents and timezones
4. Strong critical thinking and analysis skills
5. Self-starter, motivated and ambitious. Looking to grow in a fast-moving organization. Strong sense of ownership and ability to wear many different hats and work on multiple deliverables in parallel
6. Passion to build, support and maintain quality products for mission-critical use cases at massive scale in a collaborative, agile environment and excitement to learn.
7. Great verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills; able to present and document ideas in a concise and articulate manner
8. Excellent writing and presentation skills, collateral building, white papers, articles, blogs, etc.
9. Strong ability to prepare RFP responses and guide the field team through the pre-sales process
10. Ability to conduct an assessment of customer’s application and technology environment and create a modernization and migration proposal with mapping to distributed technologies leveraging Oracle solutions and supplementing with partner offerings
11. Hands-on ability to install, configure, and use relevant tools and systems to prepare customer demos, conduct training workshops, and serve as a subject matter expert on key components of the target solution
12. Experience planning Go-To-Market activities, engaging with and enabling sales teams
13. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to form a deep understanding of market/customer needs and competitive offerings
14. Ability to build relationships and collaborate successfully outside of authority while leveraging Oracle expertise and resources
15. Experience in building and enabling partner ecosystem to provide complimentary products and services
16. MS degree in computer science or engineering or MBA degree with a computer science or engineering undergrad degree

Technical Qualifications:

1. Strong technical experience with IBM CICS and/or IMS TM systems in mission-critical OLTP applications
2. Strong familiarity with IBM Batch, JCL, DB2, VSAM, and other mainframe databases and file types
3. Familiarity with COBOL development and runtime environments
4. Familiarity with system and operations management in mainframe environments and relevant IBM tools, batch schedulers, and typical 3rd party mainframe software
5. Strong knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals, hands-on experience on Linux/Unix
6. Understanding of distributed transaction management, experience with OLTP platforms, such as Tuxedo, WebLogic, or others for distributed applications
7. Strong understanding of server virtualization technologies like Virtual Machines and Kubernetes, Docker, etc. and public cloud infrastructures
8. Strong understanding of identity management and security technologies

Responsibilities:

As a Director in the product development division, you will lead a team that defines product specifications and or strategy. Gather and analyze information to define product specifications and review design specifications. Envision and communicate product strategy and functionality. Initiate and foster relationships with other groups. Review product documentation and collateral. Ensure successful product releases based on corporate priorities.