Military Talent Recruiting Lead

Oracle Data Centers is building a repeatable, scalable, data-driven military talent recruiting program that connects directly to hiring outcomes. This senior individual-contributor role helps translate workforce demand into targeted military recruiting strategy, so recruiters and hiring leaders can consistently produce qualified candidates and measurable hires.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Talent Acquisition and business leaders to understand and prioritize the requisitions you own by role, skill, geography, volume, and timing.
• Identify where military experience and transferable skills align with priority Oracle Data Center workforce needs.
• Translate hiring demand into military sourcing, pipeline, and candidate-engagement priorities.
• Develop recruiting plans that balance immediate hiring requirements with longer-term military talent availability.
• Own military talent pipelines and requisitions across supported Data Center markets, roles, and hiring priorities.
• Identify and activate appropriate military talent sources, transition pathways, digital sourcing channels, recruiting campaigns, and talent communities to deliver qualified candidates for owned requisitions.
• Map relevant military occupational backgrounds and skill sets to Oracle Data Center technical, engineering, operations, and skilled-trades roles.
• Partner with Employer Brand to inform targeted messaging and campaigns for priority military talent populations.
• Analyze the military recruiting funnel from source through hire to understand pipeline health, candidate progression, and hiring outcomes.
• Track key measures by requisition, including qualified pipeline, interviews, offers, hires, conversion rates, time-to-fill, and source effectiveness.
• Adjust sourcing, recruiting practices, candidate engagement, or hiring processes based on recruiting performance and progress against requisition goals.
• Serve as a senior military talent subject matter expert for Talent Acquisition and Data Center hiring stakeholders.
• Equip recruiters with practical guidance on military sourcing, transferable skills, candidate engagement, and assessment of military experience.
• Help hiring leaders understand how military occupational experience, training, and skills translate to Oracle Data Center roles.
• Maintain current knowledge of military transition pathways, occupational frameworks, candidate motivations, geographic talent availability, and military recruiting trends.
• Provide military talent-market intelligence to inform workforce planning, role targeting, and sourcing decisions.
• Maintain knowledge of SkillBridge, Hiring Our Heroes, and other military transition pathways and how they can support Oracle’s recruiting needs.
• Monitor relevant market and competitor practices to identify emerging opportunities for military talent acquisition.
• Work closely with Talent Acquisition leaders, recruiters, hiring leaders, Employer Brand, and other internal stakeholders to strengthen Oracle’s ability to recruit military talent at scale.

Requirements

• 8+ years of combined professional and/or military experience, including a minimum of 4 years of corporate Talent Acquisition experience in recruiting, sourcing, recruiting strategy, recruiting analytics, workforce strategy, or related talent acquisition disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience translating significant workforce or hiring demand into recruiting strategies and measurable hiring outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of military talent markets, transition pathways, occupational specialties, and transferable skills.
• Experience developing recruiting pipelines across multiple roles, locations, or hiring priorities.
• Demonstrated ability to use recruiting data and talent-market intelligence to inform recruiting decisions.
• Experience influencing recruiters, hiring leaders, and senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong communication, analytical, consulting, and critical-thinking skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to travel approximately 30%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Military service or significant professional experience in military or veteran talent acquisition.
• Experience recruiting technical, engineering, operations, skilled-trades, infrastructure, or Data Center talent.
• Experience applying military recruiting strategies across multiple locations, roles, or business groups within a large organization.
• Familiarity with MOS, AFSC, Navy Ratings, or equivalent military occupational frameworks and their translation into civilian roles.
• Knowledge of SkillBridge, Hiring Our Heroes, and other military transition and talent pathways.
• Experience with recruiting analytics, ATS data, sourcing data, or talent-market intelligence.

Location and Travel

• Onsite in Texas (also considered: Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, or Wisconsin).
• Travel: Approximately 30%.

What Success Looks Like

• Where military talent addresses the most important Oracle Data Center workforce needs.
• Generating qualified military candidates against those needs.
• Identifying which sources produce the strongest candidates and hiring outcomes.
• Determining where candidates drop off between source and hire.
• Ensuring recruiters and hiring leaders recognize and convert relevant military experience.
• Demonstrating measurable hiring impact from the military recruiting strategy.