Software Development Director

The Compute Control Plane team in Oracle's Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) organization is seeking a Director of Software Engineering to join our fast growing team in Nashville

The OCI Compute Control Plane team is at the center of many of OCI's most critical business goals. We are challenged with scaling our services to meet growing demand, delivering critical features for our customers to help them manage their Compute instances, and delivering support for new HW platforms. We support both Bare Metal and Virtual machine instances across a diverse fleet of HW, including clustered GPU platforms. In addition, our customers demand high availability and security from our Cloud. We need a leader who can thrive in ambiguity, make data-driven decisions, and think critically about how to solve complex problems. We seek someone who can inspire others, and explain the "why" behind every project and every priority call.

The specific functions of this job will be managing compute service region build outs for our rapidly growing Oracle Cloud along with service infrastructure and deployments, including architecting and delivering automated CI/CD pipelines to ensure minimal human intervention and customer impact through proper blast radius control. The role will involve building and executing on a hiring plan for the team, setting the strategic vision and near-term roadmap items, and executing on delivery in an efficient manner. The successful hire will have a passion for automation and preventing customer impact, but in the event operational issues arise, they will have the ability to quickly assess the impact and appropriate mitigation steps to restore service.

This is a highly visible and impactful role based in Nashville, TN. You will be co-located with key leadership to maximize collaboration, accelerate delivery, and support OCI's strategic growth initiatives. Note that this role is onsite in our downtown Nashville offices and Oracle is now 5 days in the office.

Responsibilities

• Organizational Leadership: Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing engineering organization, ensuring the professional growth of individual contributors, managers, and senior managers.
• Architecture & Delivery: Oversee software architecture, development, debugging, and enhancement activities in line with design specifications and business requirements. Advocate for and drive improvements within existing architectures, guiding your teams in delivering resilient, automated, and scalable solutions. Set clear, measurable goals; monitor progress and hold teams accountable for achieving key deliverables at high quality.
• Strategy & Roadmap: Define and execute the technology roadmap and operational strategies for compute cloud region build out, ensuring alignment with OCI's priorities
• Operational Excellence: Build and maintain operational support structure for your services, including on-call rotations. Lead operational incidents to resolution as necessary. Deliver post-mortem analysis for operational incidents and drive necessary improvements in process and services to improve availability as a result.
• Strategic Communication: Articulate forward-looking plans, strategies, and project outcomes to leadership and stakeholders, ensuring widespread understanding, support, and alignment.
• Hiring and Talent Development: Responsible for hiring plans and attainment of hiring goals. Lead by example in identifying and nurturing talent, conducting career development conversations, and promoting a culture of continuous learning and advancement.

Qualifications

• Leadership Experience: Minimum of 10 years leading complex engineering or technical programs, including at least 5 years as a people manager and experience managing other managers.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong, hands-on technical background, with knowledge of software development, cloud technologies, infrastructure automation, and cloud compute systems.
• Strategic Vision: Proven ability to define and execute long-term strategic and operational roadmaps for large-scale technical organizations.
• Communication and Collaboration: Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. Demonstrated ability to collaborate well with cross-functional and globally distributed teams.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required. Advanced degrees or relevant certifications in project/program management preferred.
• Passion for Excellence: Demonstrated drive to create and lead world-class engineering organizations and the mindset to foster excellence at every level.