Oracle Opera Project Manager
Oracle Opera Project Manager
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05-04-2025
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Vacancy
1 Vacancy
Posted on :
05-04-2025
Job Description
PURPOSE:
We are looking for a Senior Technical Project Manager to shape and manage various projects in the Clients PMS Technical team. You will be responsible for intake and delivery of projects that involve Opera PMS hosting or its related interfaces. The Senior Technical Project Manager will also be responsible for communicating with all stakeholders to assure successful project delivery.
Team Structure
Reports to Sr. Manager of Property Systems. (This is the team responsible for hosting Opera in Clients datacenter.
Coordinates resources establishes deadlines and assigns responsibilities
Initially resources do not report directly to this position. They are assigned to projects managed by this position. The candidate directs resources as part of delivering the project.
Resources are sourced from a matrix organization consisting of 4 engineers 2 other PMs and 6 tech support staff
In time this position may grow into one that manages others full time
Office
Candidate must work the majority of their time from Clients Chicago corporate office
Candidate is expected to put in approximately 40 hours per week. Daily start times are flexible.
Occasional overtime is expected if project crunch time requires it
Occasional late night hours may be required when supervising offhours cutovers
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
Deliverables
Plan coordinate supervise and communicate activities related to the design development testing and deployment of changes to the Opera system hosted in Clients datacenter
EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:
Must Have Strong Written and Verbal Communication Skills
Written status reports and PPTs
Exec steering committee presentations. Must be able to read the room to understand appropriate level of detail.
Liaise with technical and nontechnical people at the hotels
Tracking with vendors regarding scope dates and issues
Editing documentation written by engineers so that it is easily understood by nontechnical hotel staff
Collaboration
Discuss business requirements with Business partners
Discuss technical requirements issues and estimates with engineers
Should have experience with the typical resistance or inability of engineers to provide detailed estimates
Work with multiple technical and nontechnical teams
Work with multiple teams that test their application integrations with Opera
Project Intake
Review scope and other intake documents provided by our business partners and work with those business partners to develop the missing pieces before proceeding with Engineering teams
Work with engineers to determine highlevel estimates
Work with managers to determine where projects fall in the priority list
Communicate projected start dates and durations to requestors
Project Management
Acumen to know when artifacts in project methodology are necessary and when they can be skipped
Track detailed status issues deliverables and next steps
Structured methodology for managing all the details for multiple projects simultaneously
5 years running projects of different sizes
Must have participated in (not necessarily owned) at least one 812 month (or longer) 10 personyear project
Must have owned at least one 6 month project
Creates manages and executes project plans
Critical path management: understand how constraints affect estimates
Experience estimating and managing project budgets is a big plus
Meetings
Expected to schedule and run meetings with project team members
Must be able to run efficient meetings. (Publish agendas. Come prepared. Keep people on task. End early when possible. Cancel standing meetings when not necessary. Publish minutes including follow up tasks.
Must be an active listener not just taking notes of others conversations. Look for holes in others plans and brainstorm with them to find solutions.
Facilitate brainstorming and problem solving of issues
Testing
Understand different classes of testing (unit integration functional performance smoke)
Primary Tech Knowledge and Experience
Worked on tech projects for 10 years
Background as an individual contributor in some technology discipline strongly preferred. (e.g. developer engineer etc)
Have a working knowledge of technical components in a datacenter. (E.g. Virtual machines networking etc. Not expected to be an expert in any of these technologies but basic knowledge is necessary to understand the context of details provided by engineers.
Business Knowledge
Hospitality experience a strong plus (but not required)
Must be a subject matter expert in some discipline from previous work experience. (Not interested in project coordinators that do not absorb any details in their environment.
Must be interested in acquiring business expertise of Clients systems and growing into a subject matter expert over time
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Contract
Department / Functional Area
Key Skills
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