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.

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.

 

 

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.

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