Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oracle is a leading company that integrates data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to drive innovation and improve outcomes across various industries. The Senior Manager, Application Software Engineering role involves managing teams to develop and enhance application software, ensuring high standards of reliability, security, and performance while collaborating with stakeholders to deliver effective solutions.
Responsibilities
- Leads multiple teams or a small group owning a significant application surface area (e.g., multiple services/features) with measurable reliability, security, and performance outcomes
- Leads teams and provides technical recommendations and guidance in designing software solutions and identifying, analyzing and ensuring alignment with requirements
- Manages the execution of processes 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 and/or functional reviews to drive improvements across a project
- Leads and reviews teams to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix software issues across multiple components or functional areas
- Provides teams guidance to implement software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging
- Utilizes an analytic approach to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding
- Leads teams in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration
- Leads teams to implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies
- Leads teams to design and develop software, systems, and services
- Acts as a role model to provide technical guidance and domain expertise in software architecture decisions and best practices
- Leads teams to conduct periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural framework(s) and internal development practices and standards
- Collaborates with cross-functional teams to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities in focus
- Leads teams to implement performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design
- Impacts teams to conduct regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements
- Collaborates with stakeholders and external clients and/or partners to understand customer issues and align solutions
- Leads team(s) to provide technical guidance and appropriately prioritize support to customers regarding reported issues
- Acts as a role model for teams to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback
- Develops, modifies, and executes policies to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication
- Leads teams through processes for handling customer issues and/or defects handling and directs them to training opportunities as needed
- Manages the investigation and troubleshooting of complex product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions
- Collaborates with teams and other stakeholders within and outside of group to establish, follow, and enforce documented security criteria, development industry best practices and processes, and coding standards
- Ensures clarity of teams' operational objectives for adherence to broad acceptance criteria
- Implements moderately complex secure software development practices requiring information gathering and analysis to prevent security vulnerabilities
- Leads teams in performing periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities)
- Delegates assignments to teams to implement and evolve standard operating procedures (SOP) for development and for driving improvements, ensuring automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability
- Manages multiple medium- to large-scale projects or initiatives across teams, ensuring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable are monitored and met
- Provides direction to teams on project work, setting priorities, and aligning with business needs
- Guides teams on adjusting plans to accommodate resource or timeline changes
- Drives cross-functional partnerships to align expectations and shared objectives across multiple teams
- Coaches team members to develop strategic relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and external partners to foster collaboration and long-term success
- Promotes inclusivity by actively seeking and listening to diverse perspectives, ensuring others feel heard and respected
- Provides direction to multiple teams on addressing complex operational and/or technical issues as well as providing guidance on analyzing complex data and/or information to identify solutions
- Reviews and provides insights into unresolved or critical issues, helping the team to identify potential solutions
- Models engaging in continuous learning to deepen expertise and stay ahead of industry trends, integrating best practices into strategic planning
- Leverages feedback to drive personal and team skill improvements
- Identifies skill gaps across teams, and empowers team members to pursue learning and knowledge sharing opportunities that build their expertise in new areas and coaches them to apply learnings to advance the organization
- Drives team to collaborate on, develop, and implement ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within and across teams, providing oversight
- Guides team to adopt new ideas for alternative approaches and methods and encourages feedback for continued improvement
- Drives performance across teams by providing feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations
- Discusses development goals with team members, shares opportunities to facilitate career development, and ensures individual goals are aligned with broader organizational goals
- Develops and manages talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, monitoring promotion eligibility, and/or orchestrating talent resources
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in application software engineering
- Ability to read, write, and speak English
- Experience in leading multiple teams or a small group owning a significant application surface area
- Experience in managing the execution of processes to develop and guide new software features and enhancements
- Experience in leading code and/or functional reviews
- Experience in debugging and troubleshooting software issues across multiple components or functional areas
- Experience in providing technical recommendations and guidance in designing software solutions
- Experience in implementing software testing, quality assurance processes, and software error logging
- Experience in conducting performance profiling and optimization of coding
- Experience in leading teams to design and develop software, systems, and services
- Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams to align and build software architecture
- Experience in managing multiple medium- to large-scale projects or initiatives
- Experience in driving cross-functional partnerships
- Experience in providing direction to teams on addressing complex operational and/or technical issues
- Experience in engaging in continuous learning and integrating best practices into strategic planning
- Experience in driving team collaboration on developing and implementing ideas to increase efficiency
- Experience in providing feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes
- Experience in developing and managing talent acquisition pipeline
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- 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.
- 11 paid holidays
- 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.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
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