[Remote] Manager, Application Software Engineering

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oracle is a leading company in AI and cloud solutions, committed to innovation and inclusivity. The Manager, Application Software Engineering role involves leading a feature team to develop cloud applications, ensuring quality and accessibility, while providing technical guidance and support to team members.

Responsibilities

• Manages a single feature team delivering a cloud application or module; accountable for sprint execution, release readiness, and service health for the team’s components
• Manages team and may contribute to the design and development of code and software solutions and identifies and analyzes requirements
• Provides coaching and process execution for team to develop and guide new software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and to develop documents to clarify software design and code
• Leads code reviews to drive improvements
• Leads and reviews team to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix software issues within a single component or functional area
• Ensures team implements software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging
• Leverages prior experience and analysis to conduct performance profiling and optimization of coding
• Guides team in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration
• Manages team to implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies
• Manages team to design and develop software, systems, and services
• Provides technical leadership and technical guidance and domain expertise in software architecture decisions and best practices
• Guides team and conducts periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural framework(s) and internal development practices and standards
• Collaborates with stakeholders within own group to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities
• Implements performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design
• Impacts immediate team to conduct regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements
• May collaborate and communicate with stakeholders to understand customer issues and align solutions
• Manages team to provide technical guidance and appropriately prioritize support to customers regarding reported issues
• Enables direct reports to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements based on feedback
• Communicates regularly with stakeholders to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication
• Provides guidance to team on processes for handling customer issues and/or defects and directs them to training opportunities as needed
• Investigates and troubleshoots product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions
• Collaborates with the team and other stakeholders to establish, follow, and enforce documented security criteria, development industry best practices and processes, and coding standards
• Ensures team adherence to broad acceptance criteria
• Implements moderately complex secure software development practices to prevent security vulnerabilities
• Manages team to perform periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching for (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities)
• Guides team to follow standard operating procedures (SOP) for development and drive improvements, ensuring automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability
• Creates and owns the execution plan for the team's work and multiple projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines and budgets when applicable to ensure projects are completed on time and in adherence with requirements
• Delegates work across the team and helps them prioritize their work
• Identifies resource needs and adapts plans based on changing priorities and business needs
• Strengthens collaborative partnerships across teams to align expectations and shared objectives
• Guides team members to build relationships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to ensure effective collaboration
• Practices active listening and asks insightful questions to promote an inclusive culture
• Leads team to identify and address moderately complex operational and/or technical issues in accordance with standard practices, providing guidance as appropriate
• Directs team to analyze data and/or information from multiple sources to troubleshoot moderately complex errors
• Actively seeks learning opportunities for self and team to enhance knowledge and skills in key areas and remain current with industry advancements
• Uses feedback and training to elevate personal and team skills, modeling a commitment to learning
• Identifies skill gaps within the team and supports team members in learning opportunities by providing resources and fostering an environment that encourages knowledge-sharing
• Identifies and recommends improvements as well as encourages team to share ideas to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows within a team
• Reviews and provides feedback on team member's ideas and seeks input from others on alternative approaches and methods for improving work
• Coaches and provides direction to team members in alignment with performance management processes, guidelines, and expectations
• Facilitates goal setting discussions with team members, ensuring individual goals are aligned with broader team goals
• Identifies development opportunities to help team member's improve performance
• Contributes to the talent acquisition pipeline by leading candidate interviews, assessing promotion eligibility, and managing talent resources

Skills

• 6 to 10+ years of experience in application software engineering
• Ability to read, write, and speak English
• Experience in managing a team delivering cloud applications or modules
• Experience in software development and coding, including design, testing, and optimization
• Experience in leading code reviews and debugging software issues
• Experience in implementing software testing and quality assurance processes
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving issues related to API functionality and integration
• Experience in software architecture and structural design
• Experience in collaborating with stakeholders to align software architecture with business goals
• Experience in providing technical guidance and ensuring adherence to development practices and standards
• Experience in managing software maintenance and testing operations
• Experience in creating and owning execution plans for projects
• Experience in building collaborative partnerships across teams
• Experience in problem-solving and addressing operational and technical issues
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement for self and team
• Experience in coaching and providing direction to team members
• Experience in contributing to talent acquisition and performance management processes

Benefits

• May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.
• 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

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