Security Architect

Oracle•United States,

About The Position

The Security Architect operates at line-of-business-wide scope, setting the vision and technical standards for hyper-scale, elastic distributed systems. The role leads architecture and optimization across interdependent platforms, removes performance and scalability bottlenecks, and advances data plane technologies. It engineers fault-tolerant, in-service-upgradable designs that withstand network partitions and unreliability, and establishes service-level-objective-aligned durability and availability standards for other services. The position defines organizational KPIs and telemetry practices; implements dashboards, chaos strategies, and CI/CD-integrated resilience testing; and promotes formal verification and novel replication and synchronization techniques. It provides technical leadership during complex incidents, establishes operational readiness and standard operating procedure expectations, and drives long-term corrective strategies. It also establishes security baselines and remediation programs for multi-tenant environments, supports compliance and documentation quality, and leads infrastructure-as-code automation and change strategies for safe patching, updates, and rollbacks. The role oversees planning and execution of line-of-business initiatives, including timelines, deliverables, budgets where applicable, and organizational priorities. It drives collaboration across lines of business and external stakeholders, contributes industry thought leadership and knowledge sharing, leads continuous improvement, and provides strategic guidance on talent development.

Requirements

At least 18 years of software development experience; alternatively, 14 years with a relevant B.Tech or bachelor's degree, 12 years with a relevant M.Tech or master's degree, or 10 years with a relevant doctorate.
A qualifying degree, where applicable, in computer science, computer engineering, software engineering, electrical/electronics engineering, computer information systems, information systems, information technology, telecommunications, mathematics, physics, or a related field.
At least 5 years of academic or professional experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle Cloud.
At least 12 years of experience working in system-level testing and automation.
At least 5 years of experience delivering and operating large-scale distributed systems.

Nice To Haves

Preferred software development experience: 19 years; alternatively, 15 years with a relevant B.Tech or bachelor's degree, 13 years with a relevant M.Tech or master's degree, or 11 years with a relevant doctorate.
Preferred qualifications specify 5 years of experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, Google, or Oracle Cloud.

Responsibilities

Provide architectural leadership for highly scalable distributed systems across businesses, including horizontal and vertical scalability, performance, and distributed state management.
Resolve performance and scalability bottlenecks in hyper-scale code and systems, and define organizational scalability standards.
Design systems that scale elastically and evaluate whether they meet nonfunctional scalability requirements and anticipated business needs.
Advocate for innovation and improvements to data plane platforms.
Lead the design and implementation of fault-tolerant systems that support in-service updates through redundancy, replication, and automatic failover.
Oversee interdependent system designs that handle service disruptions and network partitions while addressing consistency, availability, and partition tolerance.
Develop and optimize techniques for managing network unreliability; establish durability and availability standards aligned with SLOs.
Set organizational standards for KPIs and telemetry used to identify risks, gaps, and cyclical dependencies.
Develop dashboards, telemetry systems, and alerting mechanisms to proactively monitor system health and reliability.
Evaluate and design system functionality for future products and businesses.
Design chaos testing strategies and promote their integration across teams and into CI/CD pipelines.
Evaluate correctness verification techniques, present advanced formal verification practices, and develop data replication and synchronization strategies that protect integrity and availability.
Provide technical leadership in diagnosing and resolving complex issues in active, interdependent systems.
Lead initiatives to prevent interruptions and avoid customer-facing maintenance windows when resolving issues.
Maintain expertise in system dependencies and owned systems to support effective troubleshooting and performance.
Establish operational readiness and standard operating procedure standards, and hold third-party partners accountable for meeting them.
Develop incident response and root-cause investigation approaches that lead to long-term solutions.
Lead the design and implementation of security measures for data and applications in multi-tenant environments and establish organizational standards.
Lead remediation plans for security gaps and continuous security improvement.
Oversee cloud infrastructure compliance with industry standards and regulations, and guide organizational documentation efforts.
Lead development of automation tools and strategies, including Infrastructure as Code.
Design change-management strategies for patching, updating, and rolling back applications, enabling automation across interdependent systems.
Oversee project or initiative timelines, deliverables, and applicable budgets; set organizational priorities and adjust them to business, resource, and timeline needs.
Drive collaboration across lines of business and external stakeholders, build strategic partnerships, and promote transparency and inclusivity.
Serve as a technical expert on high-impact, ambiguous, or novel issues and lead strategic problem-solving to resolve issues and prevent recurrence.
Provide industry thought leadership, mentor leaders and experts, contribute to the field through presentations or publications, and develop continuous learning and knowledge-sharing strategies.
Lead innovative process improvements and encourage idea generation and feedback across departments.
Provide strategic talent guidance with executive leadership and HR, anticipating talent needs and shaping talent development.