Director, Software Development

Oracle•Nashville, TN

8d•$122,500 - $355,400

About The Position

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is seeking a Director of Software Development to lead the engineering organization responsible for the Business Process Optimization System (BPOS) platform. The BPOS initiative is transformed how Oracle identifies, manages, measures, and continuously improves critical business processes through AI-powered automation, structured process governance, data-driven insights, and enterprise-scale tooling. Reporting into the engineering leadership team, this role will own the strategy, execution, and organizational development required to deliver and scale the BPOS Process Registry. The platform will be built using Oracle APEX 26.1+, Oracle Database, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, enterprise integration technologies, and AI/ML-assisted capabilities. The Director will lead a focused engineering team responsible for delivering the initial MVP, scaling the platform to support 500+ concurrent users and 1,000+ registered processes, and establishing the engineering practices needed for long-term operational maturity. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring strong technical judgment, disciplined execution, and the ability to operate across engineering, product, AI/data science, infrastructure, and executive stakeholders. The successful candidate will combine software architecture expertise, people leadership, delivery accountability, and operational excellence to help enable Oracle’s broader cultural transformation toward systematic process excellence.

Requirements

Strong technical judgment
Disciplined execution
Ability to operate across engineering, product, AI/data science, infrastructure, and executive stakeholders
Software architecture expertise
People leadership
Delivery accountability
Operational excellence
Experience with Oracle APEX development standards
Experience with Oracle Database design
Experience with ORDS/API integration
Experience with identity integration
Experience with deployment architecture
Experience with security posture
Experience with performance strategy
Experience with process registration, metrics tracking, reporting, workflow support, and integration with AI-assisted scoring and insights
Experience with predictive analytics, intelligent recommendations, and automation
Experience establishing engineering standards for code quality, secure development, testing, observability, incident response, and production operations
Experience ensuring platform reliability, scalability, and usability targets
Experience with build-vs-buy decisions
Experience leading sprint planning, execution reviews, technical design reviews, release readiness, and operational health reviews
Experience hiring, developing, mentoring, and retaining high-performing engineering talent
Experience providing executive-level status updates
Experience collaborating with OCI, IDCS, database, security, and enterprise architecture teams
Experience fostering a culture of accountability, technical rigor, customer focus, continuous improvement, and pragmatic innovation

Nice To Haves

Experience with BPMN editors
Experience with AI-assisted gate scoring
Experience with workflow automation
Experience with dashboarding
Experience with system integrations

Responsibilities

Build, lead, and scale the software engineering team responsible for the BPOS Process Registry platform.
Own engineering execution for the BPOS platform, including MVP delivery, roadmap planning, architecture direction, release management, production readiness, and long-term scalability.
Lead technical architecture decisions across Oracle APEX development standards, Oracle Database design, ORDS/API integration, identity integration, deployment architecture, security posture, and performance strategy.
Drive delivery of core Process Registry capabilities, including process registration, metrics tracking, reporting, workflow support, and integration with AI-assisted scoring and insights.
Partner with AI scientists, product stakeholders, process excellence leaders, and OCI infrastructure teams to integrate predictive analytics, intelligent recommendations, and automation into the platform.
Establish engineering standards for code quality, secure development, testing, observability, incident response, and production operations.
Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and usability targets, including sub-3-second page loads, high availability, production quality, and support for enterprise-scale adoption.
Make strategic build-vs-buy decisions for advanced capabilities such as BPMN editors, AI-assisted gate scoring, workflow automation, dashboarding, and system integrations.
Lead sprint planning, execution reviews, technical design reviews, release readiness, and operational health reviews.
Hire, develop, mentor, and retain high-performing engineering talent across application development, database engineering, full-stack development, quality engineering, and platform operations.
Provide clear executive-level status updates on delivery progress, risks, dependencies, quality, and operational readiness.
Collaborate with OCI, IDCS, database, security, and enterprise architecture teams to ensure the platform meets Oracle standards for identity, access management, API deployment, data governance, and operational support.
Foster a culture of accountability, technical rigor, customer focus, continuous improvement, and pragmatic innovation.