Senior Director, Engineering – OCI Infrastructure Planning & Capacity Management

About the role

The Senior Director of Engineering will lead the organization responsible for infrastructure planning, forecasting, sourcing coordination, and capacity management across Oracle’s global cloud footprint. This leader will own the engineering strategy, execution, and operational maturity of the platforms, services, and processes that enable Oracle to plan, build, and scale cloud infrastructure worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing engineering organization focused on infrastructure planning and capacity management.
• Recruit, mentor, and retain engineering managers, senior engineers, architects, and technical leaders.
• Establish a culture of operational excellence, accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Define organizational strategy, operating models, and execution frameworks that support OCI’s long-term growth objectives.
• Own the roadmap and delivery of engineering systems supporting infrastructure forecasting, planning, sourcing, deployment readiness, and capacity management.
• Drive development of scalable platforms, services, workflows, and automation that improve visibility, accuracy, and operational efficiency.
• Lead large-scale engineering initiatives spanning multiple OCI organizations and business units.
• Establish engineering standards, governance processes, and operational metrics across the organization.
• Partner with OCI infrastructure, supply chain, finance, and operations teams to support global infrastructure planning and investment decisions.
• Drive improvements in forecasting accuracy, capacity planning models, infrastructure utilization, and deployment readiness.
• Help shape long-range infrastructure growth strategies supporting Oracle’s global cloud expansion.
• Ensure planning systems and operational processes scale to support rapidly growing cloud demand.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to VP, SVP, and EVP leadership across OCI.
• Lead executive reviews, business planning cycles, strategic initiatives, and operational readiness programs.
• Communicate organizational priorities, risks, investment opportunities, and execution progress to senior leadership.
• Drive alignment across highly matrixed organizations with competing priorities and dependencies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical field.
• 15+ years of software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise technology experience.
• 8+ years of engineering leadership experience, including managing managers and senior technical leaders.
• Proven track record leading large engineering organizations responsible for mission-critical systems or cloud infrastructure platforms.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives across engineering, operations, finance, and business organizations.
• Exceptional communication, executive presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Range and benefits

Hiring Range in USD from: $193,600 - $414,400 per year. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Career Level - M5

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