Military Talent Recruiting Lead

Oracle Data Centers is seeking a senior individual-contributor to lead military talent recruiting efforts across supported markets in Texas (onsite). The role will build and scale a data-driven program that connects workforce demand to military sourcing, pipeline development, and measurable hiring outcomes.

Role Overview

The Military Talent Recruiting Lead will translate recruiting demand into a focused military recruiting strategy. Responsibilities include owning relevant requisitions and searches, building and managing pipelines, measuring funnel performance from source through hire, and enabling recruiters and hiring leaders to identify qualified candidates based on military occupational backgrounds and transferable skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Talent Acquisition and business leaders to understand and prioritize requisitions by role, skill, geography, volume, and timing.
• Identify where military experience and transferable skills align with priority Oracle Data Center workforce needs.
• Convert hiring demand into military sourcing, pipeline, and candidate-engagement priorities.
• Develop recruiting plans that balance immediate hiring requirements with longer-term availability of military talent.
• Own military talent pipelines and requisitions across supported Data Center markets, roles, and hiring priorities.
• Activate military talent sources, transition pathways, digital sourcing channels, recruiting campaigns, and talent communities to deliver qualified candidates for owned requisitions.
• Map military occupational backgrounds and skill sets to Oracle Data Center technical, engineering, operations, and skilled-trades roles.
• Partner with Employer Brand to shape targeted messaging and campaigns for priority military talent populations.
• Analyze the recruiting funnel from source through hire to assess pipeline health, candidate progression, and hiring outcomes.
• Track requisition-level measures including qualified pipeline, interviews, offers, hires, conversion rates, time-to-fill, and source effectiveness.
• Use recruiting performance data to refine sourcing, recruiting practices, candidate engagement, and hiring processes.
• Act as a senior subject matter expert for Talent Acquisition and Data Center hiring stakeholders.
• Provide recruiters with practical guidance on military sourcing, transferable skills, candidate engagement, and assessment of military experience.
• Support hiring leaders in understanding how military occupational experience, training, and skills translate to Oracle Data Center roles.
• Maintain 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 relevant to recruiting needs.
• Monitor market and competitor practices to identify emerging opportunities for military talent acquisition.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition leaders, recruiters, hiring leaders, Employer Brand, and other internal stakeholders to strengthen military recruiting at scale.

Minimum Requirements

• 8+ years of combined professional and/or military experience, including at least 4 years of corporate Talent Acquisition experience in recruiting, sourcing, recruiting strategy, recruiting analytics, workforce strategy, or a related talent acquisition discipline.
• 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

• Location: Texas (onsite)
• Additional location options: Michigan, New Mexico, Texas, or Wisconsin
• Travel: Approximately 30%

What Success Looks Like

• Identify where military talent can address the most important Oracle Data Center workforce needs.
• Generate qualified military candidates against those needs.
• Determine which talent sources produce the strongest candidates and hiring outcomes.
• Identify where candidates are lost between source and hire.
• Ensure recruiters and hiring leaders recognize and convert relevant military experience.
• Demonstrate measurable hiring impact from the military recruiting strategy.
• Build a military recruiting program that is repeatable, scalable, data-driven, and connected to Oracle Data Center hiring outcomes.