Software Development Snr Director

Job Description

At Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), we build the future of the cloud for Enterprises as a diverse team of fellow creators and inventors. We act with the speed and attitude of a start-up, with the scale and customer-focus of the leading enterprise software company in the world.

Values are OCI's foundation and how we deliver excellence. We strive for equity, inclusion, and respect for all. We are committed to the greater good in our products and our actions. We are constantly learning and taking opportunities to grow our careers and ourselves. We challenge each other to stretch beyond our past to build our future.

You are the builder here. You will be part of a team of really smart, motivated, and diverse people and given the autonomy and support to do your best work. It is a dynamic and flexible workplace where you'll belong and be encouraged.

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for a engineering leader who will be responsible to define the strategy, manage and operate the core Enterprise services for Oracle employees. You will lead a team covering a critical enterprise services with full responsibility for architecture, design, delivery and operations across the space.

You've operated high-scale services and understand how to make them more resilient. You have experience working with services that require data to travel long distances, but have to abide by compliance and regulations. You stay up at night thinking about how to protect the service from upstream dependencies. You have had direct involvement building a team, including recruiting and hiring, and have been responsible for design, delivery and operations within a service area.

You are technically strong and get a lot done - you've worked on services that are highly available, scalable, and redundant. You understand that simple systems are easier to operate and troubleshoot. You can balance speed and quality with iteration and incremental improvements. You've made life easier for your developers and have motivated your teams to make both process and service improvements with your ability to automate and instrument properly to get the right data. You understand operational perfection and how to instill a culture of being proactive with your teammates.

The person in this role will get a lot done on a daily basis, grow and develop the team and roadmap, drive execution of features and projects, and own feature design.

What are the biggest challenges for the team?

The biggest challenges for the team are security, scalability, performance and availability. The growth of the business is driving us to improve the ability of our systems to scale out and handle traffic patterns that are several orders of magnitude greater than what we can support today.

We understand that software is living and needs investment. The challenge is making the right trade-offs, communicating those decisions effectively, and crisp execution.

We need a leader who can lead their team to build services that handle millions of requests per second. We seek managers who can determine how we can survive regional data center outages and protect our customers. We need managers who can enable their team to build services that enable us to offer even more options to customers and contribute to the overall growth of Oracle Cloud.

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or relevant discipline
• 8+ years people management and/or lead experience with at least 2+ years leading an organization including other managers or leads
• Experienced leader and exemplary manager
• Successfully demonstrates full responsibility for architecture, design, delivery and operations for components across a given product or service
• Previous experience owning and improving quality of org-wide processes, with responsibility including roadmap planning, talent review and goal setting
• Ability to obtain results through the people you lead, owning organizational structure, headcount planning, recruiting targets and performance management.
• Ability to attract high-value talent from outside the organization, with additional success developing and retaining top talent
• Demonstrated ability to advocate for change
• Role model for OCI Values

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven history of developing senior level IC's, directors or senior managers, and future leaders
• Visibility with senior executives and involvement in decisions that impact across multiple divisions, or parts of the organization

Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veteran's status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Director of software engineering in Enterprise Engineering, you will apply your extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, managing and operating enterprise applications and services, including Email, Calendar, Zoom, Telephony and Enterprise GenAI services, according to current and future design specifications. You will build new capabilities and enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision improvements to the architecture.

You will direct and ensure the implementation of operational policies through subordinate managers, Interact internally and externally with executive management involving negotiation of vendor contracts, renewals and important matters to influence long-term strategy and policy. Functional expertise and broad company knowledge. Demonstrated leadership and people management skills. Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $141,200 to $338,500 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
2. Short term disability and long term disability
3. Life insurance and AD&D
4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
9. 11 paid holidays
10. Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
11. Paid parental leave
12. Adoption assistance
13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan
14. Financial planning and group legal
15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - M5

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Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Oracle will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records pursuant to applicable law.