Software Development Manager

Oracle; Montgomery (AL); On-site; USD 113,000 - 264,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Paid time off

401(k) matching

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Oracle is seeking an experienced Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering to build and lead a team that wins customer confidence through compelling demos and PoCs. The role couples hands-on technical leadership with strategic input to scale field patterns into accelerators, tooling, and reference solutions.

You will partner with Sales and Solution Engineering to scope engagements, drive high-impact demonstrations, and guide the FDE function’s roadmap while ensuring production-ready outcomes for

Qualifications

• 6 years of engineering experience with leadership roles in a customer-facing capacity.
• Hands-on depth in big-data and data-platform technologies: Spark, SQL, ETL, cloud storage.
• Proven track record turning ambiguous problems into working demos/POCs and scalable solutions.
• Strong customer-facing skills to earn credibility with engineers and executives.
• Ability to create reusable assets (accelerators, libraries, tooling, templates).
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across Product, Engineering, Sales.

Responsibilities

• Build, coach, and lead a high-performing team of Forward Deployed Engineers for enterprise customers.
• Own the demo and POC motion with credible, high-impact demonstrations that drive opportunities.
• Develop reusable accelerators, tooling, and reference solutions for faster value delivery.
• Establish repeatable engineering practices, demo/POC standards, and a shared accelerator library.
• Collaborate with Sales, Solution Engineering, and customers to scope engagements and plan work.
• Serve as escalation point for challenging customer problems across Oracle's cloud and data ecosystem.
• Translate field patterns into input for the AIDP roadmap.
• Drive pilots with strategic customers to accelerate adoption of Oracle’s AI Data Platform.
• Manage team health: hiring, onboarding, career development, and workload balance.

Skills

Team leadership

Big-data

Spark

SQL

POC/demo design

Customer-facing

Communication

Ambiguity management

Job description

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering to build and lead a team of FDEs who win technical confidence through compelling demos and proofs-of-concept, and who scale their impact by productizing field patterns into accelerators, tooling, and reference solutions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role — close enough to the work to unblock a customer POC or review an accelerator’s design, and strategic enough to shape how the FDE function operates and how field signal informs the AIDP roadmap.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities

• Build, coach, and lead a high-performing team of Forward Deployed Engineers who partner directly with enterprise customers and Oracle field teams to prove the value of AIDP.
• Own the demo and proof-of-concept motion: set the bar for credible, high-impact technical demonstrations (e.g., Deep Insights agents, DFL pipelines, notebooks, and agent flows) that convert strategic opportunities into technical wins and account expansion.
• Drive the creation of reusable accelerators, tooling, plugins, and reference solutions that capture field learnings once and let every FDE and customer reuse them — reducing time-to-value on each new engagement.
• Establish repeatable engineering practices for the FDE team: solution templates, demo/POC standards, code-quality bars, and a shared accelerator library, so quality scales with the team rather than living in individuals’ heads.
• Partner with Sales, Solution Engineering, and customer stakeholders to scope engagements, size technical effort, and sequence work that balances a fast first impression with a durable path to production.
• Serve as the escalation point and senior technical reviewer for the hardest customer problems: architecture, big-data performance (Spark and equivalent compute engines), data integration, and integration across Oracle’s cloud and application ecosystem.
• Close the loop with Product, Engineering, and Science: synthesize recurring field patterns, gaps, and customer requirements into clear, prioritized input to the AIDP roadmap.
• Drive pilots and joint initiatives with strategic customers and partners to accelerate adoption of Oracle’s AI Data Platform offerings.
• Manage team health and growth: hiring, onboarding, career development, performance, and workload balance across concurrent customer engagements.

Required qualifications

• 6 years of engineering experience, including recent experience leading engineers — as a manager, tech lead, or forward-deployed/solutions lead — in a customer- or field-facing capacity.
• Hands-on technical depth in big-data and data-platform technologies: Spark (or equivalent large-scale compute), SQL, data pipelines/ETL, and cloud data storage and management.
• Proven track record of taking ambiguous customer problems from concept to a working solution, demo, or POC — and ideally into production adoption and operational stability.
• Strong customer-facing skills: able to earn technical credibility with enterprise stakeholders, present to both engineers and executives, and manage expectations under pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to turn one-off solutions into reusable assets (accelerators, libraries, tooling, templates) that scale beyond a single engagement.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence across Product, Engineering, Sales, and customer organizations.
• Comfort operating with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and multiple concurrent engagements.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with modern data-lakehouse and open table formats (e.g., Delta, Iceberg, Hudi), data cataloging, and governance.
• Hands-on experience building demos or applications with LLMs / GenAI, agents, or RAG over enterprise data.
• Familiarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and/or Oracle’s data and application ecosystem (Autonomous Database/ADW, Fusion, EPM, OAC).
• Prior experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, or in a professional-services engineering role at an enterprise software or data-platform company.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed.

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: $112,800 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 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 – M2

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