Director, Platform Software Engineering

Oracle; United States; Presencial; USD 180.000 - 240.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Oracle is seeking a senior platform leadership role to standardize runtimes, APIs, and SDKs across multiple teams. The role drives governance, resilience, capacity planning, and interoperability while sponsoring cross-group innovation.

You will communicate platform health, risk, and adoption to executive leadership. Responsibilities include defining platform strategy, ensuring security controls, leading design reviews, and guiding API versioning and scalability across services.

Responsabilidades

• Define platform strategy for a group, standardizing runtimes, SDKs, and integration frameworks to interoperable, multi-tenant standards.
• Govern cross-group compatibility and security controls with SRE/security partners; approve high-risk migrations and deprecations.
• Own group-wide resilience and capacity objectives; institutionalize rollout, canary, and rollback patterns across services.
• Define elements for leads/teams to design multiple software solutions and verify alignment with business goals.
• Guide new features with a broad understanding of other areas; ensure accessibility and clear design documentation.
• Lead design and spec reviews to drive improvements across projects/programs.
• Direct teams to debug and fix software issues with a focus on API functionality and interoperability strategies.
• Direct teams to implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
• Direct teams to implement performance optimization and scalability in software design.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align software architecture with business goals.
• Lead regular technology reviews to ensure adherence to architectural standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align architecture with customer priorities.

Descripción del empleo

Job Description

Leads a platform group; develops strategies and plans that standardize runtimes, APIs, and SDKs across several teams. Accountable for group results and governance adherence; makes operational decisions ensuring compatibility, security, and performance. Sponsors cross-group innovation in resilience, capacity modeling, and interoperability. Communicates with executive leadership on platform health, risk, and adoption.

Responsibilities

Leads a platform group; develops strategies and plans that standardize runtimes, APIs, and SDKs across several teams. Accountable for group results and governance adherence; makes operational decisions ensuring compatibility, security, and performance. Sponsors cross-group innovation in resilience, capacity modeling, and interoperability. Communicates with executive leadership on platform health, risk, and adoption.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Software Development

• Define platform strategy for a group, aligning runtimes, SDKs, and integration frameworks to interoperable, multi-tenant standards.
• Govern cross-group compatibility and security controls with SRE/security partners; approve high-risk migrations and deprecations.
• Own group-wide resilience and capacity objectives; institutionalize rollout, canary, and rollback patterns across services.

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization

• 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), quality assurance 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 application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.
• Directs teams to implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design

• 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 the 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.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support

• Collaborates with stakeholders within and outside of organization, including executive leadership, to understand customer issues and align solutions.
• Directs teams to provide technical guidance and appropriately prioritize support to customers regarding reported issues.
• Leads teams and sets direction to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.
• Influences multiple teams to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.
• Directs the implementation of training for customer issue and/or defect handling processes.
• Leads the investigation and troubleshooting of complex and broadly reaching product maintenance issues to ensure customer