Senior Manager, Application Software Engineering

Ll Oefentherapie; United States; On-site; USD 118,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Oracle in the United States seeks a Senior Manager to lead a team of engineers delivering platform services, automation, observability, and AI-assisted tooling.

The role owns end-to-end backend delivery, shapes engineering standards, and builds a culture of accountability and customer impact. Strong leadership and architectural skills are essential.

Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with experience leading teams or major technical initiatives.
• Proven ability to lead engineers delivering backend services, platform capabilities, automation, and operational tooling.
• Strong system design skills, including data modeling, API design, distributed systems, and performance/reliability tradeoffs.
• Demonstrated experience partnering across functions to deliver results in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of engineers delivering meaningful platform capabilities with clear reliability, security, performance, and delivery outcomes.
• Own end-to-end delivery of backend services, platform components, automation workflows, and internal tooling.
• Make sound technical tradeoffs across scalability, maintainability, supportability, and speed of delivery.
• Provide direction on requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, and release readiness.
• Lead code and functional reviews, raise engineering quality standards, and improve test coverage, observability, and deployment practices.
• Guide debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization across multiple services or components.

Skills

People management

Engineering leadership

Backend design

System design

Education

BS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OCI

Job description

Senior Manager, Application Software Engineering

United States

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• Job Identification 337964
• Job Category Product and Research
• Role People Manager
• Job Type Regular Employee
• Does this position require a security clearance? No
• Years 10+ years
• Additional Info Visa / work permit sponsorship is not available for this position
• Applicants are required to read, write, and speak the following languages English

Job Description

Oracle Health Platform Engineering builds and operates shared platform services that power secure, reliable product delivery at scale. We are an AI‑first engineering organization, using AI‑assisted approaches to accelerate design and delivery while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, and operability.

We are seeking a Senior Manager to lead a team of software engineers working across platform services, workflow automation, observability, quality engineering, backend development, and AI‑assisted tooling. This leader will own delivery for a portfolio of technical work, help shape engineering standards, and build a team culture focused on execution, operational excellence, and customer impact.

Location / Work Authorization / Other Requirements

• Role is based in the United States.
• U.S. citizenship required due to security clearance requirements.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the required security clearance.

Key Responsibilities

Lead a team of engineers delivering meaningful platform capabilities with clear reliability, security, performance, and delivery outcomes.

Own end‑to‑end delivery of backend services, platform components, automation workflows, and internal tooling.

Make sound technical tradeoffs across scalability, maintainability, supportability, and speed of delivery.

Provide direction on requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, and release readiness.

Lead code and functional reviews, raise engineering quality standards, and improve test coverage, observability, and deployment practices.

Guide debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization across multiple services or components.

Partner with architects and senior engineers to define reusable platform patterns, APIs, and service boundaries.

Ensure solutions follow documented architecture, security, and engineering standards and reduce manual work.

Collaborate with product, operations, security, and infrastructure teams to resolve issues, prioritize defects, and drive root‑cause actions.

Recruit, coach, and develop engineers while building a culture of accountability, learning, inclusion, and customer focus.

AI-First Leadership Expectations

• Demonstrate a consistent ability to apply AI‑assisted approaches to improve team delivery, quality, and operational effectiveness across planning, design, execution, and troubleshooting.
• Establish team‑level standards for effective AI usage, including expectations for test generation, code review of AI‑assisted changes, documentation quality, and responsible use in day‑to‑day engineering work.
• Evaluate AI‑assisted solutions through an enterprise lens, ensuring security, privacy, IP, compliance, and approved‑tooling requirements are consistently followed.
• Use AI to improve team productivity and operational excellence by reducing repetitive work, strengthening incident triage and analysis, and helping engineers focus on higher‑value technical decisions and delivery.

Core Responsibilities

Planning & Execution: Manage multiple medium- to large‑scale initiatives, ensure timelines and deliverables are tracked, and adjust plans when priorities or resources change.

Collaboration & Partnership: Drive cross‑functional alignment across engineering, product, operations, security, and other stakeholders; coach the team to build strong working relationships.

Problem Solving: Provide direction on complex technical and operational issues and help the team resolve ambiguous problems with sound engineering judgment.

Continuous Learning: Promote skill growth, knowledge sharing, and adoption of modern practices, including AI‑assisted engineering approaches where appropriate.

Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements that increase efficiency, quality, and reliability across the team’s work.

Performance and Development: Provide coaching, feedback, and development planning while supporting talent decisions and succession planning.

Responsibilities

Qualifications

BS in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with experience leading teams or major technical initiatives.

Proven ability to lead engineers delivering backend services, platform capabilities, automation, and operational tooling.

Strong system design skills, including data modeling, API design, distributed systems, and performance/reliability tradeoffs.

Demonstrated experience partnering across functions to deliver results in ambiguous and fast‑moving environments.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading teams working on platform engineering, infrastructure, database, workflow automation, observability, or AI‑assisted software delivery.

Background in cloud‑native development and operations (OCI strongly preferred; AWS/Azure/GCP acceptable).

Understanding of IAM, authorization, secure service‑to‑service communication, and secure software delivery practices.

Experience building or supporting internal developer tooling, test automation, release tooling, or operational dashboards.

Familiarity with Java, Python, Go, C#, or similar languages used in enterprise software environments.

Qualifications

Disclaimer:

Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client‑facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

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

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $118,300 to $264,100 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 benefits package 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 - M3

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