Software Development Snr Director (Nashville)

Job Description

Application deployment is critical to all teams within OCI in delivering value quickly to their customers. As the leader of this organization, you will define the technical vision, drive execution across multiple teams, and build a high‑performing engineering organization capable of delivering a mission‑critical platform.

You will work closely with product and service teams across the company to drive usage of best practices and continuously evolve the platform to increase both the speed and safety of deployments. This role requires a combination of deep technical expertise in distributed systems and developer infrastructure, strong organizational leadership, and the ability to influence across organizational boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Technical & Product Leadership
  • Define and drive the vision and long‑term strategy for application deployment across OCI.
  • Architect and evolve systems that support high‑scale, reliable, and secure automated deployments across a large cloud environment.
  • Guide critical technical decisions, including build systems, deployment orchestration, release strategies, and developer workflows.
• Execution & Delivery
  • Own end‑to‑end delivery of the platform, ensuring high‑quality, predictable execution across multiple teams.
  • Lead the organization through clear, measurable OKRs, aligning engineering execution with business and platform outcomes.
  • Drive a culture of incremental delivery, enabling frequent, low‑risk releases (daily or continuous deployment).
  • Establish best‑in‑class engineering processes for planning, prioritization, and release management.
  • Define and track key delivery metrics (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate) to continuously improve performance and velocity.
  • Ensure teams balance speed with safety through strong testing, automation, and release guardrails.
• People Leadership
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineering managers and senior engineers.
  • Build a strong engineering culture focused on ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration
  • Partner with service teams across OCI to drive adoption of new app deploy features that enable faster and safer deployments.
  • Influence engineering practices across the broader organization through platform capabilities and standards.
• Operational Ownership
  • Own the availability, performance, and scalability of the app deploy platform.
  • Ensure robust observability, monitoring, and incident management practices.
  • Drive continuous improvements in system efficiency, cost optimization, and developer experience.
  • Champion secure‑by‑default and resilient deployment patterns across the ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Basic Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.
  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering, including significant time in technical leadership roles.
  • 5+ years of experience managing engineering teams, including managing managers.
  • Experience building and operating large‑scale distributed systems in a cloud environment.
  • Proven track record of delivering complex, multi‑team software initiatives from concept to production.
• Preferred Qualifications
  • Deep experience building high‑scale application deployment services, developer platforms, or large‑scale software delivery infrastructure.
  • Demonstrated success leading organizations using OKRs or similar goal‑setting frameworks to drive measurable outcomes.
  • Strong understanding of modern software development practices, including automated testing, release orchestration, and infrastructure as code.

Salary & Benefits

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $193,600 – $414,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&DD
• 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.
• 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

Other Information

Career Level – M5

Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client‑facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

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