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Orchestrates cross-group optimization for high-throughput, large-scale data processing; aligns stakeholders on scalability requirements; and oversees elastic designs and effective use of data plane platforms. Provides strategic oversight for fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable architectures, sets direction for partition-aware design choices, and leads initiatives to harden networks via load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting. Establishes expectations for formal verification and peer reviews, and sets SLO-aligned durability and availability standards across the department. Drives KPI and telemetry strategies; directs creation of complex dashboards and alerting for proactive health assurance; and ensures functional/correctness validation, data replication, and synchronization meet organizational needs. Guides organization-wide incident management and operational readiness, eliminating customer maintenance windows and ensuring consistent SOPs. Provides strategic security guidance (encryption, access controls), oversees remediation and compliance documentation, and sponsors automation (IaC) and change-management alignment so systems can be safely patched, updated, and rolled back at scale.\n Key Responsibilities\nSystem Design & Architecture - System Scalability:\nImplements strategies across multiple teams or groups for the architecture and design of interdependent scalable distributed systems, including the use of distributed state management tools, ensuring organizational and system demands are met.\nSpearheads code and/or system optimization initiatives for large-scale data processing and high-throughput requirements across multiple areas, driving improvements that support hyper-scale systems.\nFacilitates collaborations to define system scalability requirements, ensuring the defined requirements meet customer expectations.\nOversees the design of interdependent systems to scale with elasticity (e.g., effectively scaling both up and down).\nDrives the effective use and implementation of data plane platforms for large-scale data operations.\nSystem Design & Architecture - System Reliability Design:\nProvides strategic oversight for the architecture of fault-tolerant interdependent systems capable of withstanding in-service updates by overseeing implementation across teams of redundancy, replication, and automatic failover mechanisms.\nInfluences and sets direction for designing systems to effectively handle service disruptions (e.g., network partitions) by prioritizing consistency, availability, or partition tolerance.\nLeads strategic optimization initiatives for handling network unreliability, including directing the design of load-shedding, throttling, and rate-limiting techniques.\nHolds teams accountable for leveraging formal verification techniques to verify system designs and conduct peer reviews across teams.\nDrives the design of systems that are durable and adhere to service level objectives (SLOs), developing standards for availability and durability of other computing services across the department.\nSystem Design & Architecture - System Reliability Performance:\nDrives strategies for defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and telemetry to identify risks, gaps, or cyclical dependencies in running systems, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.\nDirects the creation and customization of complex dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms that proactively monitor and ensure optimal system health across teams.\nSystem Design & Architecture - Correctness / Availability:\nImplements strategies to effectively determine if systems are meeting functional and correctness requirements, and encourages teams to identify improvement opportunities.\nProvides thought leadership on processes for formally verifying complex features to ensure system design correctness.\nOversees the implementation of data replication and synchronization techniques, ensuring data integrity and availability across the organization.\nOperational Troubleshooting & Incident Management:\nProvides strategic oversight for diagnosing, debugging, and resolving issues in active systems to support ongoing operation.\nDirects strategies within teams to prevent interruptions, ensuring no maintenance windows are required for customers and users when resolving issues.\nDrives alignment across teams for operational readiness protocol and standard operating procedures.\nProvides expert guidance for complex incident response and root cause investigations.\nCompliance & Security:\nProvides strategic guidance in architecting robust security measures to protect data and applications in multi-tenant environments, ensuring encryption techniques and access controls are implemented.\nOversees execution of remediation plans to address identified security gaps, promoting significant improvements and continuous advancement of security measures.\nDrives documentation efforts and ensures cloud infrastructure compliance with industry standards and regulations.\nAutomation & Change Management:\nProvides strategic guidance across teams on developing and maintaining automation scripts and tools (e.g., Infrastructure as Code (IaC)) to manage cloud infrastructure.\nDrives strategic alignment of change management plans for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, and oversees that system designs allow for automation of these processes.\nCore Responsibilities\nPlanning & Execution:\nOversees and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets (when applicable) to ensure strategic objectives are met.\nServes as a role model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuring alignment with business needs.\nCoaches others on adjusting resources or project timelines in anticipation of business changes.\nCollaboration & Partnership:\nRole models leading cross-functional collaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.\nEmpowers teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute to organizational success.\nDrives transparency and inclusivity by modeling actively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.\nProblem Solving:\nShares problem-solving strategies across teams, providing oversight on complex operational and/or technical issues, as needed.\nCoaches teams on analyzing highly complex data and/or information to identify solutions to ambiguous issues.\nProvides direction on identifying root causes to prevent recurrence of issues.\nContinuous Learning:\nPursues strategic learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level.\nCreates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise in new areas, coaching them to build innovative skills.\nIdentifies skill gap trends across the organization and upholds a culture that places significant emphasis on sharing knowledge and pursuing learning opportunities that advance the organization.\nEvaluates the efficiency of learning strategies and recommends adjustments as needed.\nContinuous Improvement:\nEmpowers teams to own the development and implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the department.\nCoaches teams to gain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods for continued improvement.\nPrioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvement initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return on investments.\nPerformance and Development:\nServes as a role model for driving performance across teams through tailored feedback and coaching in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations.\nDrives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization.\nEnsures that individual development goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives.\nCollaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion processes.\nDisclaimer: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: $169,800 to $355,400 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. 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.\n9. 11 paid holidays\n10. 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.\n11. Paid parental leave\n12. Adoption assistance\n13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan\n14. Financial planning and group legal\n15. 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