Software Development Director

Manage a team that designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.As a director of the software engineering division, you will apply your extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision future improvements to the architecture.Assists in the development of short, medium, and long term plans to achieve strategic objectives. Regularly interacts across functional areas with senior management or executives to ensure unit objectives are met. Ability to influence thinking or gain acceptance of others in sensitive situations. Demonstrated leadership and people management skills. Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 7 years of software engineering or related experience.Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.Every day, enterprises around the world focus on how to help their employees work simpler and smarter. And while enterprises are as diverse as the people in them, they all share many similar core needs.Helping everyone work simpler and smarter means letting enterprises focus on what makes each of them special. They focus on what they re best at, and in turn, they let Oracle do the rest.At Oracle, we re committed to making a state-of-the-art consumer-grade enterprise experience that connects, empowers and delights our users, and is /the/ factor that distinguishes our software from the competition.Customers need to review and approve critical business transactions, to ensure policy compliance. Such approval requests need to be easy to understand and disposition, and straightforward to implement and maintain. This is the key responsibility for the Approvals team.We're creating a modern Approvals experience, smoothing human decisions for critical business transactions. We're putting the "Ahh" into Approvals, and helping users love Oracle one interaction at a time.To deliver the benefits to users, applications product teams will adopt the new Approvals system. In addition to delivering an amazing customer experience, we'll ensure the new system is a pleasure to implement and operate. As we succeed, we'll expand to further help our customers and the application product teams.We need a technical leader who loves hiring, guiding and coaching team members to deliver fantastic user experience, applying their deep experience with modern agile practices, and driving continuous improvement.These developers love solving customers' business problems with thoughtfully-conceived technology. Software that resonates with end users and developers, because it was designed with a deep and nuanced understanding of the challenges they face every day.Together we'll deliver an Approvals service customers love. One that makes us proud, using modern architecture, technology, and techniques. We'll continually learn by working with customers and our application development partners, and we'll relentlessly drive to delight.What you'll doYou will build, grow and develop an agile team and its members.You'll bring your deep experience with modern agile practices, and will drive continuous improvement both within and beyond the team.You'll develop your leadership, enriching your knowledge and experience with continuous delivery and continuous improvement.You'll learn and teach our technology and functionality, and help us evaluate and make functional and technical decisions.You'll work with Oracle Cloud Applications Development teams and their customers, to understand and implement their requirements and to help them implement effectively.We'll improve using short iterations, and by responding quickly to customer feedback.How we work

Modern agile practices and culture

Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment, to enable fast iteration

Dev Ops, to deliver operability at scale

What we use

Microservice architecture, because this approach fits our problem space

Helidon MicroProfile for microservices

Java, SQL and Oracle RDBMS, our rock-solid foundation

Oracle's latest Cloud Infrastructure services, including Kubernetes / Docker and Streaming.

Observation-driven design, to support data-driven investment, potentially with Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI, ML)

Who you areYou are passionate about delivering excellent software, and driven to help others develop their software craft, eventually into experts and leaders.You make the world better by delivering and improving software and software development.You thrive on working well with others. You make the people around you better. You love to collaborate with customers and users, team members and other developers, and inspire them to do their best. You are a font of positivity and people get energy from their encounters with you.You don t already know everything and you love to learn. You re inspired by helping users solve their problems. You love finding out you re wrong. You use quantitative and qualitative data to constantly refine your views. You improve your craft every day.You recognize and welcome appropriate risks, and accept that learning will inspire changing direction.And finally, you want to be part of creating dramatic and impactful change at a company that is committed to delighting our users.Preferred Qualifications

BS/MS and 10-15 years experience building and leading teams to deliver enterprise software

Object-oriented design and development, preferably Java

Agile software development mindset and practices

SQL, preferably Oracle RDBMS

Useful skills

Fusion Applications development

Approvals domain knowledge in packaged business applications, whether Fusion, eBusiness Suite, PeopleSoft

Test-Driven Development, at all scales (TDD and BDD/ATDD)

CI/CD/CD

Dev Ops

Oracle ADF Business Components

RESTful services

Job: Product DevelopmentOrganization: OracleTitle: Software Development DirectorLocation: CA,California-Redwood CityRequisition ID: 20000F7VOther Locations: MX-Mexico, United States, CA-Canada