Application Software Engineering Architect

Oracle•Redwood City, CA

1d•$136,600 - $306,400

About The Position

The Application Software Engineering Architect provides organization-wide technical leadership across application software development, architecture, production excellence, security, and operations. The role sets application platform strategy and long-term architectures, steers modernization and quality initiatives, and guides investment in reliability, security, compliance, and scalability. It resolves complex, systemic technical issues and leads API and ecosystem strategy across critical products and acquisitions. The architect influences software design and development, defines and approves project scope and design recommendations, establishes development and testing practices, and supports customer issue resolution. The position collaborates across business lines, security teams, engineering groups, customers, and senior leaders; mentors technical leaders and engineers; and contributes to roadmaps, organizational priorities, and engineering communities. It also supports continuous learning and improvement, strategic talent development, and project planning and execution. Oracle lists a U.S. hiring range of $136,600 to $306,400 per annum. The role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral. Oracle’s U.S. benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance; disability and life insurance; flexible spending accounts; commuter and parking benefits; a 401(k) plan with company match; paid time off and holidays; paid sick leave and parental leave; adoption assistance; an employee stock purchase plan; financial planning and group legal benefits; and voluntary insurance benefits.

Responsibilities

Set application platform strategy and north-star architectures across organizations, ensuring long-term scalability and resilience.
Govern production excellence standards and drive investment in reliability, security, and compliance engineering.
Anticipate organization-spanning failure modes and establish preventive architecture and runbooks.
Define organization-wide quality frameworks, tooling ecosystems, and continuous verification strategies.
Steer architectural modernization, including domain boundaries, multi-region or active-active systems, and event-driven patterns.
Establish organization-wide patterns for code health, performance, and maintainability with measurable outcomes.
Lead API and ecosystem strategy and dependency contracts across critical products and acquisitions.
Shape multi-quarter and multi-year roadmaps and investment priorities using feedback telemetry.
Build cross-organizational technical communities, mentor Principal and Staff engineers, and represent engineering in senior product forums.
Steer software solution design and requirements analysis; write and define foundational code for new projects or prototypes.
Improve software development lifecycle execution and establish best practices across teams.
Guide development of software features and enhancements, ensure accessibility, and document software design and code.
Lead improvements in software process, architecture, and code reviews across products and services.
Debug and troubleshoot highly complex or ambiguous software issues and resolve or re-architect complex API functionality and integration issues.
Define and influence software testing, quality assurance, observability, proof-of-concept work, and feasibility assessment.
Develop performance profiling and optimization methods and implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
Influence and support software, system, and service design; define project or design scope and review, influence, and approve recommendations.
Provide technical guidance, domain expertise, and coaching on software architecture decisions, best practices, industry standards, and competitive considerations.
Conduct complex architectural reviews and ensure adherence to architectural standards.
Align software architecture with business and customer goals; implement performance and scalability strategies and evaluate technologies for architectural improvements.
Coordinate stakeholder efforts to understand customer issues, root causes, and mitigations; provide technical guidance and support on customer-reported issues.
Advocate for customer interests, suggest product enhancements, communicate effectively, and develop strategic approaches to issue and defect handling.
Recommend systematic or architectural solutions for complex product maintenance issues and seek customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions.
Collaborate with security teams and business lines to establish and improve development practices and coding standards, coaching less experienced team members.
Provide technical leadership in peer reviews and guide decisions to ensure quality and adherence to acceptance criteria.
Apply industry best practices and implement secure development practices and automated solutions to resolve and prevent vulnerabilities.
Guide periodic maintenance, testing, upgrades, and patching of systems, including for critical vulnerabilities.
Improve automation, testing, and debugging to support product and service availability, health, support, and reliability.
Oversee project timelines, deliverables, and budgets where applicable; set organizational priorities and adjust for resource or timeline changes.
Drive collaboration across business lines and external stakeholders, build strategic partnerships, and promote transparency and inclusivity.
Resolve high-impact, ambiguous, or novel issues and lead strategic problem-solving to prevent recurrence.
Mentor leaders and experts, contribute to industry thought leadership, anticipate technology and standards trends, and foster continuous learning and knowledge sharing.
Lead high-impact process improvements and feedback-driven idea generation across departments.
Provide thought leadership on talent strategy and guide development of the talent pipeline in collaboration with executive leadership and HR.