Principal Architect

About the Role

We're seeking a Principal Architect to help improve product quality by improving our testing processes and ensuring that our tests cover key customer use cases. This role will serve as the bridge between customer support, sustaining engineering, and quality engineering to understand how Oracle Database is deployed and used in production. Using these insights, you'll shape testing priorities and improve coverage of real-world workloads

The ideal candidate brings deep Oracle RDBMS expertise, understands enterprise database architectures, and can translate real customer deployment patterns into high-value quality initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, availability, and performance.

What You'll Do

• Become the subject matter expert on how customers deploy, operate, and scale Oracle Database across enterprise environments.

• Establish customer engagement mechanisms—including customer advisory forums, internal working groups, and data-driven feedback channels—to continuously capture deployment patterns, operational pain points, and emerging workloads.

• Analyze customer telemetry, support trends, benchmark workloads, and field feedback to identify testing gaps and opportunities.

• Translate customer usage patterns into improved functional, stress, performance, and reliability testing.

• Drive Oracle Database-specific testing strategies that better represent customer deployments across on-premises, OCI, and hybrid environments.

• Identify opportunities to simplify and improve testing tools and processes while minimizing disruption to engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

Customer Insight and Quality Strategy

• Build ongoing mechanisms to understand customer deployments, workloads, upgrade strategies, operational practices, and pain points at an architectural level.

• Develop relationships across Sustaining engineering and strategic customers.

• Convert customer insights into actionable improvements in testing strategy and product quality.

Oracle Database Testing Strategy

• Define testing priorities based on real Oracle Database customer workloads.

• Improve functional, stress, performance, HA, upgrade, and scalability testing using production-inspired scenarios.

• Ensure testing reflects Oracle-specific architectures including RAC, Data Guard, Multitenant, Exadata, OCI, Autonomous Database integrations, and hybrid deployments where applicable.

Quality Engineering Enablement

• Define meaningful quality metrics and dashboards.

Required Qualifications

• 10–15 years of experience in software quality engineering, database engineering, software architecture, or related technical leadership roles.

• Deep expertise with Oracle Database technologies and enterprise database deployments.

• Strong understanding of Oracle Database customer environments, operational practices, and enterprise workloads.

• Experience designing or leading functional, performance, scalability, stress, and reliability testing for enterprise software.

• Ability to translate customer requirements into testing priorities.

• Experience working across Development, QA, Sustaining Engineering, and customer-facing organizations.

• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to identify trends from customer data, telemetry, and support feedback.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Oracle Database internals and enterprise features such as RAC, Data Guard, Multitenant, ASM, Exadata, GoldenGate, and OCI Database Services.

• Experience analyzing customer telemetry, support data, benchmark workloads, or production performance trends.

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: $169,800 to $355,400 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.