Director, Software Development

About the role

The Director of Software Development will lead the engineering organization responsible for the Business Process Optimization System (BPOS) platform. The BPOS initiative aims to transform business processes through AI-powered automation, structured process governance, data-driven insights, and enterprise-scale tooling.

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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 12+ years of software engineering experience, including enterprise application development, cloud services, platform engineering, or large-scale internal systems.
• 5+ years of engineering management experience, including hiring, mentoring, performance management, organizational planning, and delivery ownership.
• Experience leading teams responsible for enterprise-grade applications with measurable reliability, scalability, security, and quality requirements.
• Strong technical background in system architecture, database-backed application platforms, API integrations, authentication/authorization, and production operations.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver complex software programs on aggressive timelines while maintaining quality and operational discipline.
• Experience establishing engineering processes, development standards, testing practices, deployment automation, and production support models.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to align engineering, product, infrastructure, AI/data science, security, and executive stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical issues to senior leadership.
• Proven ability to balance hands-on technical judgment with organizational leadership and strategic planning.