Director of Application Software & Platform Engineering

Oracle; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 129,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle in United States (Denver) seeks an experienced engineering leader to own application software development across product suites and major customer journeys, accountable for delivery, availability, and security posture.

You will define elements for leads to design software solutions, guide teams through debugging, testing, API versioning, and architecture reviews, collaborate with stakeholders, emphasize security standards, and drive performance and scalability across products and domains.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Owns an application team/teams delivering a product suite or major customer journeys; accountable for delivery, availability, and security posture.
• Defines key elements for leads and/or teams to design multiple software solutions and identify and analyze requirements to ensure alignment with business and organizational goals.
• Applies broad understanding of other areas within the organization to develop and guide new software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and to develop documents to clarify software design and code.
• Leads design and specification reviews to drive improvements across multiple projects/programs.
• Utilizes conceptual thinking to direct leads and/or teams for conducting debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix software issues.
• Directs leads and/or teams to implement software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), QA processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging.
• Drives the optimization of design and development practices to improve performance across products and domains, ensuring adherence to organizational goals in execution of business priorities.
• Directs teams in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to API functionality and integration.
• Directs teams to implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• Directs teams to design and develop software, systems, and services.
• Coaches managers to provide technical guidance and domain expertise in software architecture decisions and best practices.
• Utilizes conceptual thinking to direct teams in conducting periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.
• Collaborates with cross-functional teams and stakeholders within and outside of organization to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities in focus.
• Directs teams to implement performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.
• Defines processes and approaches to conduct regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements.
• Collaborates with teams to establish, follow, and enforce documented security criteria, evolving/dynamic industry best practices and processes, and coding standards.
• Ensures clarity on key elements and objectives for adherence to broad acceptance criteria to impact development processes in the organization.
• Implements complex secure software development practices to prevent security vulnerabilities that affect the organization.
• Defines key elements for teams to perform periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching.
• Ensures teams are aware of and adhere to service contract, terms, and conditions.
• Directs teams to proactively evolve standard operating procedures (SOP) for development and to drive improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.
• Oversees and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable to ensure strategic objectives are met.
• Serves as a role model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuring alignment with business needs.
• Coaches others on adjusting resources or project timelines in anticipation of business changes.
• Role models leading cross-functional collaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.
• Empowers team to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute to organizational success.
• Drives transparency and inclusivity by modeling actively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.
• Shares problem-solving strategies across teams, providing oversight on complex operational and/or technical issues, as needed.
• Coaches teams on analyzing highly complex data and/or information to identify solutions to ambiguous issues and provides direction on identifying root causes to prevent recurrence of issues.
• Pursues strategic learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level.
• Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise in new areas, coaching them to build innovative skills.
• Identifies skill gap trends across the organization and upholds a culture that places significant emphasis on sharing knowledge and pursuing learning opportunities that advance the organization.
• Evaluates efficiency of learning strategies and recommends adjustments as needed.
• Empowers team to own the development and implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the department.
• Coaches teams to gain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods for continued improvement.
• Prioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvement initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return on investments.
• Serves as a role model for driving performance across teams through tailored feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.
• Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization.
• Ensures that individual development goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives.
• Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion processes.

Job description

Oracle in United States (Denver) seeks an experienced engineering leader to own application software development across product suites and major customer journeys, accountable for delivery, availability, and security posture.

You will define elements for leads to design software solutions, guide teams through debugging, testing, API versioning, and architecture reviews, collaborate with stakeholders, emphasize security standards, and drive performance and scalability across products and domains.