Application Software Engineering Architect

Oracle•Redwood City, CA

4d•$136,600 - $306,400

About The Position

The Application Software Engineering Architect sets application platform strategy and north-star architectures across organizations, ensuring long-term scalability and resilience. The role governs production excellence standards globally; drives investment in reliability, security, and compliance engineering; anticipates organization-spanning failure modes; and establishes preventive architecture and runbooks. It defines organization-wide quality frameworks, tooling ecosystems, continuous verification strategies, and measurable patterns for code health, performance, and maintainability. The architect steers modernization, leads API and ecosystem strategy, shapes multi-quarter to multi-year roadmaps and investment priorities, builds cross-organizational technical communities, mentors senior technical contributors, and represents engineering in senior product forums. The role provides strategic technical leadership throughout software development and architecture. It guides requirements analysis, design, foundational code, testing, quality assurance, observability, performance optimization, API versioning, and lifecycle strategies. It influences and approves project scope and design recommendations, advises on architecture decisions and industry practices, and aligns systems and services with business and customer goals. It also collaborates on customer-reported issues and defects, develops systemic solutions, advances secure development practices, and steers maintenance and testing operations for upgrades and patches. The position oversees project priorities and delivery alignment, builds partnerships across business lines and with external stakeholders, and resolves high-impact or ambiguous technical problems. It contributes thought leadership, anticipates industry and technology trends, promotes learning and knowledge sharing, leads process improvement, and provides strategic guidance on organizational talent development.

Responsibilities

Set application platform strategy and organization-wide north-star architectures for 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 designs, and event-driven patterns.
Establish measurable organization-wide standards for code health, performance, and maintainability.
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 Principals and Staff, and represent engineering in senior product forums.
Guide strategic software design and requirements analysis; write and define foundational code for projects or prototypes.
Improve software development lifecycle practices and coach teams on best practices.
Drive development of software features and enhancements that follow design specifications and ensure accessibility; document software design and code.
Lead improvements to development processes, architecture, and code reviews across products and services.
Debug and troubleshoot highly complex or ambiguous software issues and resolve or re-architect API functionality and integration issues.
Define and influence functional and non-functional testing, quality assurance, observability, proof-of-concept work, and feasibility evaluation.
Develop performance profiling and optimization methods and implement API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
Define project and design scope; review, influence, and approve scope and design recommendations.
Advise teams and leaders on software architecture, industry standards, competitive considerations, and organizational transformations.
Conduct complex architecture reviews, ensure adherence to architectural standards, and align architecture with business and customer goals.
Research and evaluate technology and translate findings into long-term architectural decisions and plans.
Coordinate investigation of customer issues, root causes, and mitigations; provide technical guidance and advocate for customer interests.
Develop strategic solutions for issue and defect handling, recommend systemic remedies, and support timely resolution and customer communication.
Establish and improve secure development practices and coding standards with security teams and across business lines; coach less experienced team members.
Provide technical leadership in peer reviews and ensure quality and adherence to acceptance criteria.
Implement complex secure software development practices and automated solutions to resolve and prevent vulnerabilities.
Steer maintenance and testing operations for system upgrades and patches, including critical vulnerability remediation.
Drive automation, testing, and debugging to ensure service and product availability, health, support, and reliability.
Oversee timelines, deliverables, and applicable budgets for initiatives and set organizational priorities as business needs change.
Drive collaboration across business lines and external stakeholders and cultivate strategic partnerships with senior leaders, stakeholders, and customers.
Promote a transparent and inclusive culture and lead strategic problem-solving for high-impact, ambiguous, or novel issues.
Share industry expertise and thought leadership, anticipate future trends, and develop continuous learning and knowledge-sharing strategies.
Lead innovative processes and approaches that improve efficiency and effectiveness across the line of business.
Provide strategic guidance on organizational talent strategy and development in collaboration with executive leadership and HR.