{"id":1127506,"url":"https://alion.io/job/oracle-director-platform-software-engineering-3","title":"Director, Platform Software Engineering","company":{"id":53,"name":"Oracle","domain":"oracle.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/oracle","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":93,"open_postings":203,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.488,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":4,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Leadership","role_family":"Leadership","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Nashville, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":122500,"max":355400,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":355400},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-22T20:56:57Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-22","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T01:30:31Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":1,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":1},"description":"Leads a platform group; develops strategies and plans that standardize runtimes, APIs, and SDKs across several teams. Accountable for group results and governance adherence; makes operational decisions ensuring compatibility, security, and performance. Sponsors cross-group innovation in resilience, capacity modeling, and interoperability. Communicates with executive leadership on platform health, risk, and adoption. Key Responsibilities\nPlatform Software Development:\nDefine platform strategy for a group, aligning runtimes, SDKs, and integration frameworks to interoperable, multi-tenant standards.\n\nGovern cross-group compatibility and security controls with SRE/security partners; approve high-risk migrations and deprecations.\n\nOwn group-wide resilience and capacity objectives; institutionalize rollout, canary, and rollback patterns across services.\n\nSoftware Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:\nDefines key elements for leads and/or teams to design multiple software solutions and identify and analyze requirements to ensure alignment with business and organizational goals.\n\nApplies broad understanding of other areas within the organization to develop and guide new software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and to develop documents to clarify software design and code.\n\nLeads design and specification reviews to drive improvements across multiple projects/programs.\n\nUtilizes conceptual thinking to direct leads and/or teams for conducting debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix software issues.\n\nDirects leads and/or teams to implement software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging.\n\nDrives the optimization of design and development practices to improve performance across products and domains, ensuring adherence to organizational goals in execution of business priorities.\n\nDirects teams in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.\n\nDirects teams to implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.\n\nSoftware Architecture - Software System Structural Design:\nDirects teams to design and develop software, systems, and services.\n\nCoaches managers to provide technical guidance and domain expertise in software architecture decisions and best practices.\n\nUtilizes conceptual thinking to direct teams in conducting periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.\n\nCollaborates with cross-functional teams and stakeholders within and outside the organization to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities in focus.\n\nDirects teams to implement performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.\n\nDefines processes and approaches to conduct regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements.\n\nIssue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:\nCollaborates with stakeholders within and outside of organization, including executive leadership, to understand customer issues and align solutions.\n\nDirects teams to provide technical guidance and appropriately prioritize support to customers regarding reported issues.\n\nLeads teams and sets direction to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback.\n\nInfluences multiple teams to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.\n\nDirects the implementation of training for customer issue and/or defect handling processes.\n\nLeads the investigation and troubleshooting of 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 teams and leadership to establish, follow, and enforce documented security criteria, evolving/dynamic industry best practices and processes, and coding standards.\n\nEnsures clarity on key elements and objectives for adherence to broad acceptance criteria to impact development processes in the organization.\n\nImplements complex secure software development practices to prevent security vulnerabilities that affect the organization.\n\nDevelopment Operations - System Maintenance:\nDefines key elements for teams to perform periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).\n\nEnsures teams are aware of and adhere to service contract, terms, and conditions.\n\nDirects teams to proactively evolve standard operating procedures (SOP) for development and 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 and guides multiple teams on managing complex projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable to ensure strategic objectives are met. Serves as a role model for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and ensuring alignment with business needs. Coaches others on adjusting resources or project timelines in anticipation of business changes.\n\nCollaboration & Partnership:\nRole models leading cross-functional collaborative efforts to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives. Empowers team to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to address barriers and contribute to organizational success. Drives transparency and inclusivity by modeling actively seeking, listening to, and leveraging diverse perspectives.\n\nProblem Solving:\nShares problem-solving strategies across teams, providing oversight on complex operational and/or technical issues, as needed. Coaches teams on analyzing highly complex data and/or information to identify solutions to ambiguous issues and provides direction on identifying root causes to prevent recurrence of issues.\n\nContinuous Learning:\nPursues strategic learning opportunities to maintain expertise and apply best practices at the organizational level. Creates opportunities for team members and leaders to build their expertise in new areas, coaching them to build innovative skills. Identifies 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. Evaluates efficiency of learning strategies and recommends adjustments as needed.\n\nContinuous Improvement:\nEmpowers team to own the development and implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the department. Coaches teams to gain buy-in for ideas and to seek feedback on approaches and methods for continued improvement. Prioritizes and reviews the roadmap of improvement initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic direction and maximize return on investments.\n\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. Drives consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socializes performance expectations across the organization. Ensures that individual development goals are aligned with organizational strategic initiatives. Collaborates with HR to implement talent strategy through hiring and promotion processes.\n\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: $122,500 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. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance\nThe role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.\nCareer Level - M4","description_format":"text","description_chars":9992,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Continuous learning","Equity","Life insurance","Parental leave","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cloud Computing","Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)","Database Management"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-22T22:29:35Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":4,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":355400,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/oracle-director-platform-software-engineering-3","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/oracle-director-platform-software-engineering-3.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T02:33:57Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}