Senior Principal Business Operations Lead (Nashville, TN)

Oracle · Nashville

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The Global Program Controls organization provides governance, reporting, controls processes, cost management support, and portfolio visibility to help Oracle Cloud Infrastructure deliver global data center programs with greater consistency, transparency, and execution discipline.  

We are seeking a highly experienced individual contributor to help transform complex operational and technical information into accurate, decision-ready insights for senior executives. 

This role is designed for someone who is relentless about data integrity, intellectually curious, highly responsive, and comfortable operating in a complex, fast-moving, technical environment. The successful candidate will be able to move fluidly between detailed operational data and CEO-level communication—digging into the underlying facts, identifying inconsistencies, resolving ambiguity, and distilling the results into clear, concise, and credible executive reporting. 

This is not a traditional data analyst, project manager, or communications role. It combines elements of all three. The ideal candidate will bring strong analytical judgment, executive communication skills, technical aptitude, and a delivery-oriented mindset. Prior data center experience is not required. More important is a genuine interest in learning technical subject matter and the ability to become conversant in areas such as data center operations, low-voltage infrastructure, rack and compute deployment, hardware testing, and server turn-up activities. 

Key Responsibilities 

Data Integrity and Analytical Rigor 

• Establish confidence in the accuracy, consistency, completeness, and traceability of critical business and operational data. 
• Investigate discrepancies across systems, reports, teams, and data sources, and drive issues through resolution. 
• Ask probing questions, challenge unsupported assumptions, and ensure that reported information can withstand executive scrutiny. 
• Develop practical processes and controls that improve data quality and reporting reliability over time. 
• Identify gaps in available information and work across teams to establish a clear, defensible source of truth. 
• Balance speed with precision, particularly during time-sensitive executive requests and operational escalations. 

Executive Reporting and Communication 

• Translate highly technical, tactical, or operational information into clear and compelling narratives for the CEO and other senior executives. 
• Produce executive reports, briefings, presentations, summaries, and decision-support materials. 
• Distill large volumes of information into the few insights, risks, decisions, and actions that matter most. 
• Tailor the depth, language, and format of communications to the intended executive audience. 
• Ensure that executive materials are accurate, concise, logically structured, and supported by verifiable data. 
• Anticipate likely executive questions and prepare the supporting analysis needed to answer them. 

Business and Technical Learning 

• Develop a deep understanding of the company’s business model, operations, technology, customers, systems, and key performance drivers. 
• Become comfortable with technical concepts related to data center operations, low-voltage work, rack and compute deployment, hardware validation and testing, server installation, and server turn-up. 
• Learn unfamiliar technical and operational subject matter quickly, even without prior domain experience. 
• Engage confidently with engineers, operators, vendors, and subject-matter experts to understand technical processes, terminology, dependencies, and risks. 
• Ask thoughtful questions and continue learning until able to accurately explain technical topics to both operational and executive audiences. 
• Build strong working relationships with subject-matter experts and learn enough to challenge, clarify, and synthesize their input. 
• Connect information across functions to identify broader implications, dependencies, risks, and opportunities. 
• Approach technical subject matter with curiosity, humility, and genuine enthusiasm rather than hesitation or avoidance. 

Program Execution and Problem Solving 

• Bring a project manager’s discipline to ambiguous, cross-functional work. 
• Define problems, organize workstreams, clarify owners, establish milestones, and drive deliverables to completion. 
• Coordinate across technical, operational, finance, strategy, and leadership teams to obtain required inputs and resolve blockers. 
• Step into urgent or unstructured situations, create order quickly, and drive toward a practical solution. 
• Manage multiple high-priority requests while maintaining accuracy, responsiveness, and sound judgment. 
• Follow through persistently until commitments are completed and issues are resolved. 

Executive and Operational Support 

• Serve as a trusted, high-leverage partner to senior leadership on critical analyses, executive deliverables, and time-sensitive business issues. 
• Independently take ownership of complex requests with limited initial direction. 
• Help diagnose and resolve urgent business or operational “fire drills.” 
• Exercise discretion when handling sensitive, confidential, or executive-level information. 
• Provide flexibility during periods of elevated business activity, including occasional support outside standard working hours when urgent circumstances require it. 

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