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Acts as a thought leader within the organization to drive the development of new application features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify application design and code. Leads and drives improvements in process, application architecture, and code reviews across products/services. Utilizes strategy and innovation to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix highly complex and/or ambiguous application issues. Resolves or re-architects highly complex and systemic issues requiring strategy and innovation related to application programming interface (API) functionality, integration, and service-to-service interactions. Influences and supports the design and development of application software, systems, and services. Defines project or design scope; reviews, influences, and approves scope and design recommendations for application components and services. Collaborates cross-functionally with stakeholders to orchestrate efforts to understand customer use cases, root causes, and mitigations to align and explain rationale behind application solutions. Provides modern/emerging technical guidance and support to customers regarding application-related issues. Collaborates with the security team and across business lines to establish, follow, and improve upon application development practices, secure coding standards, and code quality, providing coaching to less experienced team members. Steers strategic decision-making processes for performing periodic maintenance and testing operations for application systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).\n Key Responsibilities\nApplication Software Development:\nSets application platform strategy and north-star architectures across organizations; ensures long-term scalability and resilience.\n\nGoverns production excellence standards globally; drives investment in reliability, security, and compliance engineering.\n\nAnticipates and resolves organization-spanning failure modes; establishes preventive architecture and runbooks.\n\nDefines organization-wide quality frameworks, tooling ecosystems, and continuous verification strategies.\n\nSteers architectural modernization (e.g., domain boundaries, multi-region/active-active, event-driven patterns).\n\nEstablishes organization-wide patterns for code health, performance, and maintainability with measurable outcomes.\n\nLeads API/ecosystem strategy and dependency contracts across critical products and acquisitions.\n\nShapes multi-quarter to multi-year roadmaps and investment priorities using comprehensive feedback telemetry.\n\nBuilds cross-org technical communities; mentors Principals/Staff; represents engineering in senior product forums.\n\nSoftware Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:\nSteers strategic decision-making processes to design software solutions and identify and analyze requirements.\n\nWrites and defines foundational code for new projects or prototypes.\n\nAdheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; coaches and defines best practices across teams or units to drive improvements.\n\nActs as a thought leader within the organization to drive the development of new software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.\n\nLeads and drives improvements in process, architecture, and code reviews across products/services to drive improvements.\n\nUtilizes strategy and innovation to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix highly complex and/or ambiguous software issues.\n\nUtilizes a proactive and visionary approach to define and influence all levels of software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), quality assurance processes, observability for effective debugging, and proof of concepting and feasibility.\n\nInnovates methods to conduct performance profiling and optimization of product(s) and/or service(s).\n\nResolves or re-architects highly complex and systematic issues requiring strategy and innovation related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.\n\nExecutes advanced solutions to implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.\n\nSoftware Architecture - Software System Structural Design:\nInfluences and supports the design and development of software, systems, and services.\n\nDefines project or design scope; reviews, influences, and approves scope and design recommendations.\n\nServes as a trusted advisor to provide technical guidance, domain expertise, and coaching in software architecture decisions and best practices, including evolving industry standards and competitive considerations, interfacing with all levels and teams, guiding organizational and line of business/functional transformations.\n\nUtilizes innovation and strategy to conduct highly complex periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.\n\nCollaborates with cross-functional teams and leadership to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities.\n\nImplements modern/emerging performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.\n\nConducts regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements and translates into decisions and plans that have a long-term impact on the organization.\n\nIssue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:\nCollaborates cross-functionally with stakeholders to orchestrate efforts to understand customer issues, root causes, and mitigation to align and explain rationale behind solutions.\n\nProvides modern/emerging technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues.\n\nActs as an expert advisor to advocate for customers' interests and proactively suggests product enhancements and solutions based on a synthesis of feedback and insights from internal data and tools.\n\nActs as a trusted advisor to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.\n\nDevelops strategic and innovative solutions for customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.\n\nRecommends systematic/architectural solutions to the most complex and broadly reaching product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions.\n\nPractices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:\nCollaborates with the security team and across business lines to establish, follow, and improve upon development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.\n\nParticipates in peer review processes, provides technical leadership, and steers strategic decision-making to ensure quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.\n\nDemonstrates, contributes to, and shares comprehensive expertise of industry best practices in multiple specialty areas and their application to software development processes.\n\nImplements highly complex secure software development practices/solutions to resolve and prevent security vulnerabilities and address ambiguous problems, leveraging automated solutions to augment the manual review process.\n\nDevelopment Operations - System Maintenance:\nSteers strategic decision-making processes for performing periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).\n\nActs as thought leader to drive improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.\n\nCore Responsibilities\nPlanning & Execution:\nOversees timelines, deliverables, and budgets where applicable for projects or initiatives in the line of business that achieve critical business objectives, ensuring milestones are completed efficiently and in alignment with requirements.\n\nSets priorities at an organizational level and adjusts as needed to accommodate resource or timeline changes, aligned with business needs.\n\nCollaboration & Partnership:\nDrives collaboration across multiple lines of business and external stakeholders to influence alignment on expectations, strategic objectives, and proposed solutions.\n\nCultivates strategic partnerships with senior business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, pursuing opportunities for expanding partnerships and ensuring long-term organizational success.\n\nPromotes a culture of transparency and inclusivity where all voices are valued and respected.\n\nProblem Solving:\nServes as a technical expert and resource across the line of business to resolve high-impact, ambiguous, or novel issues using advanced methodologies and techniques.\n\nDrives strategic problem-solving initiatives, leveraging information and/or data from wide-ranging sources to ensure efficient resolution and prevent recurrence.\n\nContinuous Learning:\nLeverages deep expertise of the industry and multiple areas to serve as a thought leader within Oracle and to mentor other leaders and experts.\n\nContributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions).\n\nContinuously builds expertise by anticipating future trends, technologies, and industry standards to develop best practices and strategic goals that position the line of business as an industry leader.\n\nDevelops and implements strategies for continuous learning and knowledge sharing, fostering an environment where learning is prioritized.\n\nContinuous Improvement:\nLeads and influences the design of innovative and high-impact processes and approaches to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness across the line of business.\n\nFosters a culture of idea generation and seeking feedback on solutions across departments and functions for continued improvement.\n\nPerformance and Development:\nProvides thought leadership regarding organizational talent strategy, collaborating with executive leadership and HR to anticipate talent needs based on industry forecast.\n\nImparts strategic guidance to shape the talent development pipeline.\n\n 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.\nRange and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only\nUS: Hiring Range in USD from: $136,600 to $306,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.\nOracle 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.\nCandidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.\nOracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:\n1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion\n2. Short term disability and long term disability\n3. Life insurance and AD&D\n4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)\n5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts\n6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits\n7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match\n8. Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. 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