Senior Director, Network Development
Oracle · Austin, TX · 4 days ago
Healthcare$170k–$355k/yrFull-time
Responsibilities
- Define and govern multi-year architecture and design standards across cloud, data center, WAN, and edge; ensure designs meet resilience, security, and compliance objectives.
- Sponsor transformational programs (e.g., SDN/intent-based networking, zero-trust segmentation) and enforce design reviews, configuration baselines, and lifecycle policies across regions.
- Establish enterprise validation strategy for new architectures, hardware/firmware, and software at scale; require pre-production proofs, pilot rollouts, and rollback plans.
- Align network roadmap with product and platform strategies; balance innovation with reliability, cost, and regulatory constraints.
- Set group strategy for network automation frameworks, pipelines, and “policy as code”; standardize reusable modules, guardrails, and CI/CD for network changes.
- Prioritize automation investments that reduce toil, increase change velocity, and improve MTTR; track benefits through measurable KPIs and error budget adherence.
- Ensure secure-by-design automation practices, including access controls, audit trails, and compliance checkpoints; drive adoption across all regions and teams in group.
- Own group wide test strategy and acceptance criteria for configurations, images, and changes; mandate automated regression, canary/blue-green rollouts, and production-safety checks.
- Institutionalize quality gates and change readiness reviews; ensure RCAs and corrective actions are systematically integrated into test plans and playbooks.
- Run governance forums to assess test coverage, defect escape, and reliability risk; direct group-wide Corrective and Preventive Actions priorities and timelines.
- Define network health strategy, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets across services and regions; enforce consistent telemetry, alerting, and runbook standards.
- Drive resiliency investments (e.g., redundancy, fault isolation, DR exercises); validate business continuity and recovery outcomes against policy and regulatory needs.
- Align network strategy with Cloud/Infra, SRE, Security, Product, and Finance; chair architecture and change boards to manage dependencies and risks.
- Build leadership capacity through coaching, succession planning, and inclusive practices; set clear expectations for managers and technical leaders across group.
- Own strategic vendor relationships and contract negotiations; drive joint roadmaps, performance SLAs, and remediation plans for systemic issues.
- Govern capacity planning and forecasting models to meet growth, launches, and expansion; tie plans to budget cycles and supply constraints.
- Set performance targets (latency, jitter, packet loss, throughput) and optimization strategies; eliminate hotspots via routing policy, peering, placement, and traffic engineering.
- Balance cost, performance, and resiliency trade-offs; implement continuous cost optimization and value tracking for network investments.
- Provides strategic oversight on the management and execution of large-scale projects or initiatives, monitoring timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable to ensure success.
- Set strategies for appropriately delegating work, setting priorities, and aligning projects with business needs.
- Drive the strategic planning process across teams, providing guidance on resources or timelines in anticipation of changes.
- Set a strategic direction for collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of expectations and strategic objectives.
- Drive a culture of teamwork, empowering teams to build and maintain partnerships with business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers to contribute to organizational success.
- Promote a culture of transparency and inclusivity where all voices are valued and respected.
- Develop and implement strategies for specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts across the organization, serving as an escalation point for highly complex operational and/or technical issues.
- Oversee teams leveraging innovative techniques to address significant ambiguous issues, identify root causes, and prevent recurrence, reviewing solutions as needed.
- Champion continuous learning to maintain cutting-edge skills and influence organizational best practices.
- Inspire teams to build and maintain expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards to help position the organization as an industry leader.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement that sets a standard for efficient and effective processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization.
- Oversee work to implement large-scale approaches and methods for continued improvement, ensuring changes align with organizational goals.
- Drive and ensure consistent application of performance management strategies, systems, processes, and guidelines across the organization.
- Create an organizational culture of career development that encourages proactively identifying and pursuing career development opportunities, and guiding leaders to support their team's growth.
- Drive consistency in the application of talent development procedures and socialize performance expectations across the organization.
- Partner with HR and executive leadership to envision and execute a talent management strategy, balancing budget and talent resources.
Qualifications
- Deep physical networking expertise.
- Strong operational judgment.
- Hyperscale infrastructure experience.
- The ability to lead globally distributed teams.
- Knowledge of SDN/intent-based networking, zero-trust segmentation, and automation frameworks.
- Experience with network automation, testing, and quality assurance.
- Leadership experience in managing large-scale projects and teams.
- Ability to develop and implement strategies for specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts.
- Proven track record of continuous learning and staying current with emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work closely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Experience with network health strategy, SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
- Experience with resiliency investments, business continuity, and disaster recovery.
- Experience with capacity planning, forecasting models, and optimization strategies.
- Experience with strategic vendor relationships and contract negotiations.
- Experience with governance forums, test coverage, defect escape, and reliability risk assessment.
- Experience with strategic vendor relationships and contract negotiations.
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