Oracle Cloud Systems Manager

Oracle Cloud Systems Manager

Job Type: Contract-to-Hire

Location: Remote – CST/EST Hours

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Oracle Cloud Systems Manager to provide strategic direction, platform leadership, and functional expertise across a growing Oracle environment.

This is a newly created leadership position responsible for establishing the vision and roadmap for Oracle Cloud, prioritizing platform initiatives, optimizing existing functionality, and providing direction and coaching to the team responsible for supporting and enhancing the environment.

The ideal candidate will be an Oracle Cloud subject-matter expert who understands implementations, configurations, quarterly releases, platform optimization, and the broader Oracle ecosystem. This person should be able to evaluate where the organization is today, determine where the Oracle environment needs to go, and build a practical roadmap for getting there.

This role combines Oracle platform strategy, process optimization, roadmap ownership, team leadership, and executive communication. The successful candidate will be able to establish long-term direction while still remaining close enough to the platform to guide day-to-day priorities and technical/functional decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the organization's primary Oracle Cloud subject-matter expert and provide overall direction for the Oracle platform.
• Establish the long-term vision and desired future state for the Oracle environment.
• Develop, maintain, and execute an Oracle platform roadmap aligned with business priorities.
• Evaluate the current Oracle environment and identify opportunities to improve utilization, functionality, processes, and overall business value.
• Prioritize Oracle initiatives and ensure the team remains focused on the highest-value work.
• Manage competing priorities and proactively prevent or address scope creep.
• Provide direction, coaching, and guidance to Oracle Systems Analysts and other technical and functional team members.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand pain points, process gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Evaluate additional Oracle capabilities, functionality, tools, and add-ons and make recommendations based on potential business value.
• Identify opportunities to better leverage functionality already available within the Oracle platform.
• Provide guidance across Oracle implementations, configurations, enhancements, integrations, and ongoing platform optimization.
• Oversee and support quarterly Oracle Cloud releases , including evaluating new functionality, potential impacts, testing needs, and adoption opportunities.
• Ensure current implementation and enhancement work aligns with the long-term Oracle strategy.
• Develop and coordinate training initiatives to improve Oracle adoption and utilization across the organization.
• Establish processes, standards, and best practices for managing and optimizing the Oracle environment.
• Identify process improvement and automation opportunities across Oracle-supported business functions.
• Build strong relationships with technical teams, functional stakeholders, managers, and executive leadership.
• Provide regular updates and strategic recommendations to management and executive stakeholders.
• Facilitate decision-making across Oracle initiatives and ensure teams have clear direction and priorities.
• Help establish metrics and measures for platform effectiveness, adoption, process improvement, and business value.

Required Qualifications

• Significant hands-on and leadership experience with Oracle Cloud .
• Deep knowledge of the Oracle ecosystem with the ability to serve as an Oracle subject-matter expert for technical and functional teams.
• Experience developing and managing an Oracle platform roadmap .
• Strong understanding of Oracle Cloud implementations, configurations, enhancements, releases, and ongoing platform optimization.
• Experience establishing a future-state vision for an enterprise Oracle environment.
• Ability to evaluate Oracle functionality, capabilities, tools, and add-ons and determine their potential business value.
• Experience identifying opportunities to improve utilization of existing Oracle functionality.
• Experience managing Oracle priorities across multiple initiatives and business needs.
• Demonstrated ability to manage scope and prevent scope creep across complex initiatives.
• Experience supporting and planning for Oracle quarterly releases .
• Ability to provide direction, coaching, and guidance to Oracle technical and functional resources.
• Strong process improvement and optimization mindset.
• Ability to translate business needs and process challenges into Oracle platform priorities and solutions.
• Experience partnering with business process owners and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong communication and presentation skills with the ability to provide recommendations and updates to management and executive leadership .
• Ability to balance long-term strategy and roadmap development with current platform priorities and operational needs.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and decision-making skills.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience managing or leading an Oracle Cloud applications team .
• Experience helping an organization mature or expand its Oracle Cloud environment.
• Experience leading Oracle platform optimization following an implementation.
• Experience with business process improvement, operational excellence, or process transformation.
• Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement experience.
• Experience developing training and adoption strategies around Oracle functionality.
• Experience evaluating new Oracle functionality and determining whether it should be incorporated into the organization's roadmap.
• Experience working directly with senior executives on ERP strategy and investment priorities.
• Experience leading teams through platform changes, releases, and continuous improvement initiatives.

What We're Looking For

The strongest candidate will be someone who can own the direction of Oracle , rather than simply administer the platform or manage individual Oracle projects.

We are looking for an Oracle Cloud expert who can assess the current environment and answer questions such as: Where should the platform be going? What should we implement next? What functionality are we underutilizing? Which new Oracle capabilities are worth pursuing? What should the team prioritize now versus later?

This person should have enough Oracle depth to provide credible direction to technical and functional resources while also having the leadership and communication skills to explain strategy, priorities, and recommendations to managers and executives.

The right candidate will combine Oracle Cloud expertise, roadmap ownership, platform optimization, process improvement, prioritization, and team leadership .

The projected hourly range for this position is $60–$90/HR.

On-Demand Group (ODG) provides employee benefits which includes healthcare, dental, and vision insurance. ODG is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.