Senior Manager, Software Development - Media Services

Oracle•Nashville, TN

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

You will partner with executive leadership to define and execute a successful strategy, leveraging your experience as an engineering leader to provide clear direction and influence. We seek a leader with deep expertise in not only cloud migration but in building, delivering, and operating cloud services / tooling that advance Oracle’s media-first cloud vision. Experience with video playback, video encoding, CDN-based content delivery, live streaming, and especially cross-cloud or on‑prem migrations is highly desirable. Beyond technical acumen, you must bring strong soft skills - exceptional communication, collaboration, and the ability to mentor and develop talent. You are confident driving complex, cross-functional initiatives end to end and will continually serve as a catalyst for technical innovation.

Requirements

Proven experience (10+ years) building and delivering cloud-based, Large/enterprise-scale software development management experience; proven success leading high-impact teams and programs.
Experience with a large-scale cloud migration, preferably related to media workloads.
Experience leading the development and operation of cloud services. Including an eye for continuous improvement, passion for automation, and iteratively refining processes to increase efficiency.
Experience managing managers and multiple engineering teams preferred.
Demonstrated success collaborating with and leading geo-distributed teams.
Domain expertise in media and entertainment workflows: playback, content augmentation, transcoding/packaging, CDN-based delivery, live streaming, streaming analytics, and cost/billing analytics.
Strong communication and leadership skills; capable of mentoring engineers and driving complex, cross-functional initiatives with confidence.
Proven ability to define and deliver against OKRs and KPIs.
BS in Computer Science or related field; advanced degree a plus.
Willingness to travel to customer sites and Oracle locations as needed to support onboarding and operational excellence.

Nice To Haves

Experience leading customer-facing consulting/professional services or onboarding programs for major media and entertainment firms (preferred).
Direct experience at a media studio is highly desired.

Responsibilities

Recruit, hire and maintain engineering staff / consultants which deliver and operate cloud services that enable M&E firms to move their workloads to OCI.
Lead consulting and onboarding teams to plan and execute enterprise migrations to OCI, including discovery, solution design, migration runbooks, integration with customer media workflows, and post-launch success measurement.
Launch new tools and cloud services which establish operational excellence, including SLAs/SLOs, incident management, and continuous improvement practices.
Set and drive the technical direction for the team and partner organizations; collaborate closely with Product, Architecture, Security, Sales, CSM, Support and Customers.
Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry best practices, ensuring compliance while driving innovation.
Establish and stimulate software development standards and processes along with best practices for the org.
Develop strategic plans with leadership, team, and customers; define OKRs and KPIs to inform prioritization and decision-making.
Build and lead high-performing, geographically distributed teams; mentor managers and engineers to grow top talent.
Engage directly with executive leadership and key customer stakeholders to align technical roadmaps with business outcomes.
Drive domain execution across playback, content augmentation, video transcoding and packaging, content delivery using CDNs, live streaming, streaming analytics, and flexible billing and cost analytics.
Create repeatable onboarding playbooks, training, and readiness materials to scale customer adoption; channel customer feedback into product and platform roadmaps.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
Short term disability and long term disability
Life insurance and AD&D
Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
11 paid holidays
Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
Paid parental leave
Adoption assistance
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Financial planning and group legal
Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance