Application Software Engineering Architect

Oracle•Redwood City, CA

About The Position

The Application Software Engineering Architect provides organization-wide technical and architectural leadership for application software. The role sets application platform strategy and north-star architectures, ensuring long-term scalability, resilience, reliability, security, and compliance. It guides architectural modernization, API and ecosystem strategy, quality frameworks, engineering tooling, continuous verification, and multi-quarter or multi-year roadmaps. The architect steers software design, development, testing, optimization, and maintenance across products and services. This includes defining foundational code, improving software development lifecycle practices, setting standards for code health and maintainability, advancing testing and observability, resolving highly complex system and API issues, and guiding performance and scalability strategies. The role defines and approves scope and design recommendations, reviews adherence to architectural standards, and translates technology research into long-term organizational decisions. The position also serves as a trusted advisor to customers, stakeholders, engineering teams, and business leaders. It coordinates issue diagnosis and resolution, advocates for customer needs, promotes secure development practices, mentors senior technical staff, and supports organizational planning, collaboration, continuous learning, and improvement. It may oversee project timelines, deliverables, priorities, and budgets where applicable.

Requirements

At least 18 years of software development experience; alternatively, 14 years with a relevant bachelor's degree or B.Tech, 12 years with a relevant master's degree or M.Tech, or 10 years with a relevant doctorate.
At least 12 years of programming and/or scripting experience, such as SQL, C/C++, or JavaScript.
At least 8 years of database experience.
For the listed degree-based pathways, the degree must be in a relevant field such as computer science, computer or software engineering, electrical/electronics engineering, information systems or technology, telecommunications, mathematics, or physics.

Nice To Haves

Preferred software development experience: 19 years without a listed degree pathway; alternatively, 15 years with a relevant bachelor's degree or B.Tech, 13 years with a relevant master's degree or M.Tech, or 11 years with a relevant doctorate.
Demonstrated ability to prepare, file, and manage patent applications for innovative products or technology.
At least 4 years of experience in a technical lead role, with or without direct reports.
At least 4 years of experience working with operating budgets and/or project financials.
At least 5 years of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle Cloud.

Responsibilities

Set application platform strategy and organization-wide architectures for scalability and resilience.
Govern production excellence standards and drive investment in reliability, security, and compliance engineering.
Anticipate organization-wide failure modes and establish preventive architecture and runbooks.
Define quality frameworks, tooling ecosystems, and continuous verification strategies.
Lead 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 Principal and Staff engineers, and represent engineering in senior product forums.
Guide software solution design and requirements analysis; write and define foundational code for projects or prototypes.
Improve software development lifecycle practices and coach teams on engineering best practices.
Drive development of accessible software features and enhancements, and document software design and code.
Lead improvements in development processes, architecture, and code reviews.
Debug and troubleshoot highly complex or ambiguous software issues and re-architect systemic API and integration issues.
Define and influence testing, quality assurance, observability, proof-of-concept, and feasibility practices.
Develop performance profiling and optimization methods and API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.
Define project or design scope and review, influence, and approve scope and design recommendations.
Advise teams on software architecture, industry standards, and best practices; conduct architectural reviews and ensure standards are followed.
Align software architecture with business and customer goals and implement performance and scalability strategies.
Research and evaluate technologies and turn findings into long-term architectural decisions and plans.
Coordinate stakeholders to understand customer issues, root causes, and mitigations; provide technical guidance and support to customers.
Advocate for customer interests, recommend product enhancements, and support timely issue resolution and effective communication.
Develop strategic approaches to customer issue and defect handling, training, and product maintenance.
Collaborate with security teams and business lines to establish and improve development practices and coding standards.
Lead peer review and secure development practices, using automation to help prevent and resolve vulnerabilities.
Guide maintenance and testing operations for systems requiring upgrades or patches, including critical vulnerability remediation.
Improve system automation, testing, and debugging to support availability, health, and reliability.
Oversee project or initiative timelines, deliverables, budgets where applicable, and organizational priorities.
Drive collaboration and strategic partnerships across business lines, external stakeholders, senior leaders, and customers.
Promote transparency and inclusivity, and lead resolution of high-impact, ambiguous, or novel technical problems.
Mentor leaders and experts, contribute to industry thought leadership, and develop continuous learning and knowledge-sharing strategies.
Lead process improvement and contribute to organizational talent strategy and development planning.