Software Development Snr Director

Oracle Oracle · Enterprise · United States

Seeking an experienced engineering leader to build and operate an enterprise-scale CI/CD platform that standardizes and automates software delivery across OCI. This role requires defining technical vision, driving execution, and building a high-performing engineering organization. Responsibilities include architecting high-scale systems, guiding technical decisions, owning end-to-end delivery, leading teams, and ensuring operational ownership of the platform's availability, performance, and scalability.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and drive the vision and long-term strategy for a next-generation CI/CD and software delivery platform.
  2. Architect and evolve systems that support high-scale, reliable, and secure automated deployments across a large cloud environment.
  3. Own end-to-end delivery of the platform, ensuring high-quality, predictable execution across multiple teams.
  4. Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineering managers and senior engineers.
  5. Own the availability, performance, and scalability of the CI/CD platform.

Skills

Required

  • software engineering leadership
  • managing engineering teams
  • managing managers
  • building and operating large-scale distributed systems
  • cloud environment experience
  • delivering complex, multi-team software initiatives
  • technical leadership
  • organizational leadership
  • influence across organizational boundaries

Nice to have

  • CI/CD systems
  • developer platforms
  • large-scale software delivery infrastructure
  • OKRs or similar goal-setting frameworks
  • transition to incremental delivery models
  • continuous integration
  • continuous deployment
  • daily releases
  • modern software development practices
  • automated testing
  • release orchestration
  • infrastructure as code

What the JD emphasized

  • enterprise-scale CI/CD platform
  • standardize and automate software delivery
  • foundational to engineering velocity, reliability, and security
  • mission-critical platform
  • distributed systems and developer infrastructure
  • high-scale, reliable, and secure automated deployments
  • build systems, deployment orchestration, release strategies, and developer workflows
  • incremental delivery, enabling frequent, low-risk releases
  • continuous deployment
  • automated testing, release orchestration, and infrastructure as code
  • availability, performance, and scalability of the CI/CD platform
  • observability, monitoring, and incident management practices