Senior Director, Application Software Engineering

Integrates information from multiple areas to develop, guide, and innovate new application software features and enhancements for design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and to develop documents that clarify application design and code. Leads application-focused design and specification reviews to drive improvements across multiple programs, products, and/or organizations. Provides thought leadership and pioneers new approaches for the group in application software development and quality assurance. Oversees a group in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality, integration, and service-to-service interactions. Oversees the design and development of application software, systems, and services. Cultivates partnerships with stakeholders and senior leaders within and outside the organization to understand customer use cases and align application solutions. Oversees the group to provide technical guidance and appropriately prioritize support to customers regarding application-related issues. Collaborates with the group and senior leadership to ensure compliance and alignment to evolving/dynamic application development best practices and processes. Develops strategic plans and objectives for driving adherence to broad acceptance criteria to impact application development processes across the organization. Drives strategic initiatives to ensure the group performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for application systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
Application Software Development:

• Leads a large, potentially global application development group or portfolio of applications spanning multiple product lines.

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

• Drives key strategic initiatives to design and implement multiple software solutions and identify and analyze requirements to ensure alignment with business and organizational goals.

• Integrates information from multiple areas to develop, guide, and innovate new software features and enhancements for design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and to develop documents to clarify software design and code.

• Leads design and specification reviews to drive improvements across multiple programs, products, and/or organizations.

• Provides thought leadership and pioneers new approaches for group for software development and quality assurance.

• Oversees departments to implement software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging.

• Adapts and/or drives optimization of design and development practices to improve performance across products and domains to meet evolving business priorities.

• Oversees a group in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.

• Addresses ambiguous challenges for implementing API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.

Software Architecture - Software System Structural Design:

• Oversees the design and development of software, systems, and services.

• Coaches directors/managers to provide technical guidance and domain expertise in software architecture decisions and best practices.

• Pioneers new approaches and utilizes conceptual thinking for group to conduct periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.

• Collaborates with stakeholders and cross-functional teams within and outside of organization, including executive leadership to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities in focus.

• Sets standards to implement performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.

• Develops and provides strategy, vision, and direction for group to conduct regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements.

Issue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:

• Cultivates partnerships with stakeholders and senior leaders within and outside the organization to understand customer issues and align solutions.

• Oversees group to provide technical guidance and appropriately prioritize support to customers regarding reported issues.

• Drives key strategic initiatives that advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.

• Champions the organization to ensure customer success and satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.

• Drives direction for the implementation of training for customer issue and/or defect handling processes.

• Directs group through the investigation and troubleshooting of the most complex and broadly reaching product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions.

Practices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:

• Collaborates with group and senior leadership to ensure compliance and alignment to evolving/dynamic industry best practices and processes.

• Develops strategic plans and objectives for driving adherence to broad acceptance criteria to impact development processes across the organization.

• Implements highly complex and strategic secure software development practices/solutions to prevent security vulnerabilities that span across the organization.

Development Operations - System Maintenance:

• Drives strategic initiatives to ensure group performs periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).

• Ensures group is aware of and adheres to service contract, terms, and conditions.

• Oversees group to proactively evolve standard operating procedures (SOP) for development and drive improvements, and sets direction to ensure automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.

Core Responsibilities
Planning & Execution:

• Provides strategic oversight on the management and execution of large-scale projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable to ensure success.

• Sets strategies for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and aligning projects with business needs.

• Drives the strategic planning process across teams, providing guidance on resources or timelines in anticipation of changes.

Collaboration & Partnership:

• Sets a strategic direction for collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.

• Drives a culture of teamwork, empowering teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to contribute to organizational success.

• Promotes a culture of transparency and inclusivity where all voices are valued and respected.

Problem Solving:

• Develops and implements strategies for specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts across the organization, serving as an escalation point for highly complex operational and/or technical issues.

• Oversees teams leveraging innovative techniques to address significant ambiguous issues, identify root causes, and prevent recurrence, reviewing solutions as needed.

Continuous Learning:

• Champions continuous learning to maintain cutting-edge skills and influence organizational best practices.

• Inspires teams to build and maintain expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards to help position the organization as an industry leader.

• Contributes to the organization’s strategy for learning and development, influencing leadership to foster learning opportunities for the team.

Continuous Improvement:

• Drives a culture of continuous improvement that sets a standard for efficient and effective processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization.

• Oversees work to implement large-scale approaches and methods for continued improvement, ensuring changes align with organizational goals.

• Sets the strategic direction, prioritizes, and approves the roadmap of improvement initiatives to maximize return on investments.

Performance and Development:

• Drives and ensures consistent application of performance management strategies, systems, processes, and guidelines across the organization.

• Creates an organizational culture of career development that encourages proactively identifying and pursuing career development opportunities and guiding leaders to support their team's growth.

• Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization.

• Partners with HR and executive leadership to envision and execute a talent management strategy, balancing budget and 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: $150,000 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.