Manager, Application Software Engineering

Provides coaching and process execution for the team to develop and guide new application software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and to develop documents that clarify application design and code. Leads application-focused code reviews to drive improvements. Leads and reviews the team to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix application issues within a single component or functional area. Guides the team in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality, integration, and service-to-service interactions. Manages the team to design and develop application software, systems, and services. May collaborate and communicate with stakeholders to understand customer use cases and align application solutions. Manages the team to provide technical guidance and appropriately prioritize support to customers regarding application-related issues. Collaborates with the team and other stakeholders to establish, follow, and enforce documented security criteria, application development best practices and processes, and coding standards. Ensures team adherence to broad acceptance criteria. Manages the team to perform periodic maintenance and testing operations for application systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
Application Software Development:

• Manages a single feature team delivering a cloud application or module; accountable for sprint execution, release readiness, and service health for the team’s components.

Software Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:

• Manages team and may contribute to the design and development of code and software solutions and identifies and analyzes requirements.

• Provides coaching and process execution for team 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 code reviews to drive improvements.

• Leads and reviews team to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix software issues within a single component or functional area.

• Ensures team implements software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging.

• Leverages prior experience and analysis to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding.

• Guides team in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.

• Manages team to implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

• Manages team to design and develop software, systems, and services.

• Provides technical leadership and technical guidance and domain expertise in software architecture decisions and best practices.

• Guides team and conducts periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural framework(s) and internal development practices and standards.

• Collaborates with stakeholders within own group to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities.

• Implements performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.

• Impacts immediate team to conduct regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:

• May collaborate and communicate with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions.

• Manages team to provide technical guidance and appropriately prioritize support to customers regarding reported issues.

• Enables direct reports to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.

• Communicates regularly with stakeholders to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.

• Provides guidance to team on processes for handling customer issues and/or defects and directs them to training opportunities as needed.

• Investigates and troubleshoots product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions.

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:

• Collaborates with the team and other stakeholders to establish, follow, and enforce documented security criteria, development industry best practices and processes, and coding standards.

• Ensures team adherence to broad acceptance criteria.

• Implements moderately complex secure software development practices to prevent security vulnerabilities.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:

• Manages team to perform periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching for (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).

• Guides team to follow standard operating procedures (SOP) for development and drive improvements, ensuring automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:

• Creates and owns the execution plan for the team's work and multiple projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines and budgets when applicable to ensure projects are completed on time and in adherence with requirements.

• Delegates work across the team and helps them prioritize their work.

• Identifies resource needs and adapts plans based on changing priorities and business needs.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• Strengthens collaborative partnerships across teams to align expectations and shared objectives.

• Guides team members to build relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure effective collaboration.

• Practices active listening and asks insightful questions to promote an inclusive culture.

Problem Solving:

• Leads team to identify and address moderately complex operational and/or technical issues in accordance with standard practices, providing guidance as appropriate.

• Directs team to analyze data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot moderately complex errors.

Continuous Learning:

• Actively seeks learning opportunities for self and team to enhance knowledge and skills in key areas and remain current with industry advancements.

• Uses feedback and training to elevate personal and team skills, modeling a commitment to learning.

• Identifies skill gaps within the team and supports team members in learning opportunities by providing resources and fostering an environment that encourages knowledge-sharing.

Continuous Improvement:

• Identifies and recommends improvements as well as encourages team to share ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team.

• Reviews and provides feedback on team member's ideas and seeks input from others on alternative approaches and methods for improving work.

Performance and Development:

• Coaches and provides direction to team members in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.

• Facilitates goal setting discussions with team members, ensuring individual goals are aligned with broader team goals.

• Identifies development opportunities to help team member's improve performance.

• Contributes to the talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, assessing promotion eligibility, and managing talent resources.

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: $114,600 to $234,600 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.
As part of Oracle's onboarding process and consistent with applicable law, US-based employees are required to complete identity verification, which involves the collection and processing of their biometric information. Accommodations to this requirement may be granted following an individualized assessment.