Software Development Director

We are seeking an experienced Software Development Director to join our team in designing and developing innovative tools that empower Oracle’s SaaS business. As a Software Development Director, you will play a key role in scaling our engineering organization and delivering solutions that enable data-driven decision-making across the SaaS organization.

This is an exciting opportunity to shape and expand our engineering function while collaborating with a talented team of software and data engineers to build scalable, high-impact solutions. Our data platform is at the core of our operations, supporting analytical capabilities and delivering key business insights through a suite of AI models, APIs, and applications.

We are looking for a hands-on leader who thrives in an agile, fast-paced environment and is passionate about building teams, fostering innovation, and driving technical excellence.

Career Level – M4

The software development director’s responsibilities include:

• Lead the design, and development of one of our key products, ensuring it meets the needs of our business stakeholders.
• Drive engineering best practices, including CI/CD, automated testing to ensure scalability, reliability, and data accuracy.
• Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing engineering team, including both software and data engineers to support the evolving needs of the product.
• Foster a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning.
• Driving hiring initiatives, to attract top talent and ensure the team is setup for success as we grow.
• Collaborate closely with the product manager and business stakeholders to define the technical roadmaps and align engineering efforts with strategic goals.
• Work with data engineers, architects to optimize data pipelines and infrastructure, supporting the AI models and delivering actionable insights through the applications and APIs.
• Champion Agile/Lean methodologies to enable iterative development and rapid delivery of value.
• Establish processes that balance speed, scalability and quality in a dynamic environment.
• Ensure transparency and alignment across the organization to facilitate collaboration and efficient execution.
• Contribute to the long-term vision and architecture of our products.

Job Requirements:

• Proven experience in building and scaling engineering teams in a high-growth dynamic environment, ideally with a focus on data driven solutions.
• Strong background in application development, with experience in full-stack or backend development using micro-service architecture.
• Exposure to the ML development lifecycle, including data pipeline and model deployment, monitoring is a plus but not required.
• Expertise in Agile methodologies and software engineering best practices (CI/CD, branching strategies, system design patterns, cloud technologies).
• Leadership and mentoring skills, with a proven ability to grow and develop engineering talent.
• Experience in partnering with product and business teams to align technical roadmaps with the strategic and business objectives.

Qualifications:

• 10+ year’s experience managing large engineering teams.
• Leadership, mentorship and raising the talent bar across the organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to resolve complex technical challenges.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

 

 

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