Lead Principal Application Software Architect (Equity)

Oracle; United States; On-site; USD 105,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

Oracle is seeking an experienced software leader to guide application development across teams, driving improvements through design specifications, accessibility, and clear documentation. You will lead reviews, adopt modern technologies, and troubleshoot complex API and integration issues while mentoring engineers and collaborating with security and leadership teams.

You will oversee maintenance and patching initiatives for critical vulnerabilities and ensure high-quality software delivery

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in applying the software development lifecycle and coaching engineers.
• Strong knowledge of API functionality, integration, and service-to-service interactions.

Responsibilities

• Architects and delivers multi-team features and modernization initiatives with clear, organization-level KPIs.
• Establishes global production-readiness standards (SLOs, error budgets, incident tooling) and drives adoption.
• Diagnoses and resolves high-severity, multi-system failures; creates systemic reliability improvements across apps/OCI.
• Harmonizes QA strategy across teams to ensure consistent app quality.
• Makes significant architectural decisions; leads migrations and pattern adoptions with deprecation plans.
• Defines cross-team API governance and dependency management frameworks.
• Shapes prioritization using data from field/customer, telemetry, and live-site signals.
• Mentors Staff engineers; partners with Product and Design to balance customer value and technical strategy.

Job description

Oracle is seeking an experienced software leader to guide application development across teams, driving improvements through design specifications, accessibility, and clear documentation. You will lead reviews, adopt modern technologies, and troubleshoot complex API and integration issues while mentoring engineers and collaborating with security and leadership teams.

You will oversee maintenance and patching initiatives for critical vulnerabilities and ensure high-quality software delivery