At Oracle Health, our mission is to improve healthcare and quality of life globally through better experiences and easier access to health and research data for patients, healthcare providers, and researchers. Oracle Health Applications & Infrastructure is building a modern cloud platform for healthcare applications and services. The Identity and Access Management organization provides the foundational security capabilities that protect sensitive healthcare data and enable trusted access across the Oracle Health ecosystem. We are looking for a hands-on engineering manager to lead the Authorization team within IAM. This team is responsible for designing, building, and operating critical authorization services that enable secure access decisions at scale. The work spans policy evaluation, role- and attribute-based access control, entitlement management, authorization APIs, auditability, reliability, and integration with applications and platform services. This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who enjoys solving complex problems in distributed systems, identity, security, and cloud infrastructure. You will lead engineering teams working on services that must be secure, reliable, observable, and easy for application teams to adopt. You will partner closely with product, security, architecture, compliance, and application engineering teams to define strategy, deliver roadmap commitments, and continuously improve the operational posture of critical IAM services. You will be part of a team of smart, motivated, and diverse people, and you will be given the autonomy and support to do your best work. Oracle Health is growing quickly, and this role offers the opportunity to shape foundational authorization capabilities from the ground up.
Responsibilities
- Grow, lead, and mentor multiple engineering teams totaling 10+ engineers across the United States.
- Own the delivery and operation of critical Authorization services within Oracle Health Identity and Access Management.
- Lead technical initiatives across IAM domains, including authorization, policy management, entitlement services, access control models, auditability, and secure service integration.
- Provide technical direction, review architecture and design decisions, and ensure solutions meet security, scalability, reliability, and compliance requirements.
- Drive operational excellence for production services, including availability, performance, incident response, observability, capacity planning, and continuous improvement.
- Partner with product managers, architects, security teams, compliance stakeholders, and application engineering teams to define priorities and deliver business outcomes.
- Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, execution, inclusion, documentation, quality, and long-term maintainability.
- Develop and communicate team roadmaps, project plans, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Coach engineers and managers, support career growth, and create an environment where teams can do their best work.
- Ensure the team delivers high-quality software on predictable schedules while balancing innovation, technical debt, security, and operational needs.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience growing, leading, and developing successful engineering teams.
- 5+ years of experience leading large, complex technical projects from concept through production operation.
- Strong technical background in software engineering, distributed systems, cloud services, identity, security, or platform infrastructure.
- Experience building or operating highly available production services.
- Experience making technical tradeoffs across security, reliability, scalability, maintainability, and delivery timelines.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical topics to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated ability to work across teams, influence without direct authority, and drive alignment among engineering, product, security, and business stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with authorization systems, IAM platforms, policy engines, entitlement management, RBAC, ABAC, ReBAC, or related access control technologies.
- Experience designing or operating security-sensitive services in regulated environments.
- Experience with cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, Kubernetes,distributed tracing, monitoring, and incident management.
- Experience leading teams responsible for foundational platform services used by many internal or external engineering teams.
- Familiarity with healthcare, privacy, compliance, or data protection requirements.
- Experience building developer-facing platforms, SDKs, APIs, or self-service capabilities.
- About the work The Authorization team plays a critical role in protecting healthcare data and enabling secure access across Oracle Health applications. The team builds services that application developers depend on for consistent, scalable, and auditable access control. Success in this role requires both strong engineering leadership and a deep appreciation for the responsibility that comes with securing sensitive healthcare information. You should be comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment, making pragmatic decisions, and helping teams balance delivery speed with security and operational excellence. You will have the opportunity to shape the technical direction, team culture, and long-term strategy for one of the most important areas of Oracle Health IAM.
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.
Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only
US: Hiring Range in USD from: $110,100 to $264,100 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
Oracle 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. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.
Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:
- 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
The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.
Career Level - M2