Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Position: Senior Manager, Application Software Engineering
** Job Description*
* Oracle Health Platform Engineering builds and operates shared platform services that power secure, reliable product delivery  are an AI-first engineering organization, using AI-assisted approaches to accelerate design and delivery while maintaining high standards for security, correctness, and operability.

We are seeking a Senior Manager to lead a team of software engineers working across platform services, workflow automation, observability, quality engineering, backend development, and AI-assisted tooling. This leader will own delivery for a portfolio of technical work, help shape engineering standards, and build a team culture focused on execution, operational excellence, and customer impact.

** Responsibilities*
* + Lead a team of engineers delivering meaningful platform capabilities with clear reliability, security, performance, and delivery outcomes.

+ Own end-to-end delivery of backend services, platform components, automation workflows, and internal tooling.

+ Make sound technical tradeoffs across scalability, maintainability, supportability, and speed of delivery.

+ Provide direction on requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, and release readiness.

+ Lead code and functional reviews, raise engineering quality standards, and improve test coverage, observability, and deployment practices.

+ Guide debugging, troubleshooting, and performance optimization across multiple services or components.

+ Partner with architects and senior engineers to define reusable platform patterns, APIs, and service boundaries.

+ Ensure solutions follow documented architecture, security, and engineering standards and reduce manual work.

+ Collaborate with product, operations, security, and infrastructure teams to resolve issues, prioritize defects, and drive root-cause actions.

+ Recruit, coach, and develop engineers while building a culture of accountability, learning, inclusion, and customer focus.

AI-First Leadership Expectations

+ Demonstrate a consistent ability to apply AI-assisted approaches to improve team delivery, quality, and operational effectiveness across planning, design, execution, and troubleshooting.

+ Establish team-level standards for effective AI usage, including expectations for test generation, code review of AI-assisted changes, documentation quality, and responsible use in day-to-day engineering work.

+ Evaluate AI-assisted solutions through an enterprise lens, ensuring security, privacy, IP, compliance, and approved-tooling requirements are consistently followed.

+ Use AI to improve team productivity and operational excellence by reducing repetitive work, strengthening incident triage and analysis, and helping engineers focus on higher-value technical decisions and delivery.

Core Responsibilities

+ Planning & Execution:
Manage multiple medium- to large-scale initiatives, ensure timelines and deliverables are tracked, and adjust plans when priorities or resources change.

+ Collaboration & Partnership:
Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, operations, security, and other stakeholders; coach the team to build strong working relationships.

+ Problem Solving:
Provide direction on complex technical and operational issues and help the team resolve ambiguous problems with sound engineering judgment.

+ Continuous Learning:
Promote skill growth, knowledge sharing, and adoption of modern practices, including AI-assisted engineering approaches where appropriate.

+ Continuous Improvement:
Identify and implement process improvements that increase efficiency, quality, and reliability across the team's work.

+ Performance and Development:
Provide coaching, feedback, and development planning while supporting talent decisions and succession planning.

Qualifications

+ BS in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent practical experience).

+ 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, with experience leading teams or major technical initiatives.

+ Proven ability to lead engineers delivering backend services, platform capabilities, automation, and operational tooling.

+ Strong system design skills, including data modeling, API design, distributed systems, and performance/reliability tradeoffs.

+ Demonstrated experience partnering across functions to deliver results in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.

Preferred Qualifications

+ Experience leading teams working on platform engineering, infrastructure, database, workflow automation, observability, or AI-assisted software delivery.

+ Background in cloud-native development and operations (OCI strongly preferred; AWS/Azure/GCP acceptable).

+ Understanding of IAM, authorization, secure service-to-service communication, and secure software delivery practices.

+ Experience building or supporting internal developer tooling, test automation, release tooling, or operational dashboards.

+ Familiarity with Java, Python, Go, C#, or similar languages used in enterprise software environments.

Disclaimer:

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