Senior Director Product Engineering – Converged Charging and Mediation

 

BACKGROUND

Oracle is recruiting for an exceptional Product Engineering leader to focus on Converged Charging, Mediation and Analytics solutions for Communications vertical.  The executive will be responsible for leading the product engineering organization to develop new products and transform existing ones into leading revenue management solutions for leading global communications services providers. This person is responsible for the strategy, architecture, engineering, and life-cycle management of software that is the essence of our success in Comunications Monetization.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Director Product Engineering will work with product management to design, build and deliver Oracle’s Converged Charging, Mediation and Analytics product suite.   He/She will lead and oversee both new product development as well as sustaining engineering.  Reporting to GVP of Product Development for the Communications Applications Global BU (CAGBU), the ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the Communications Networks, 3GPP 5G architecture and specifications, Cloud Native, Telco grade network product development, and a strong track record running sustaining development.  This role will be directly responsible for software design and solution architecture, software engineering, quality and NFR engineering and global engineering organization development.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Lead product strategy and technology planning activities to align engineering priorities to business goals.
• Collaborate with the appropriate departments to develop and maintain a technology plan that supports organizational needs.
• Partner with Product Management to define aggressive, but achievable product roadmaps, with commitment to delivery.
• Incorporate newly incubated technologies into the stack and build a Technology vision and roadmap.
• Effectively manage department budget to support attainment of software portfolio P&L objectives.
• Anticipate and react to major technology changes to ensure the maintenance of company leadership in the competitive landscape.
• Maintain a culture of continuous improvement with a focus on being a best-in-class product R&D organization.
• Maintain a culture of delivering on-time, on-scope, on-budget, and on-quality.
• Fully accountable for software quality and on-time delivery.
• Lead the team in enforcing standard practices that enhance maintainability and reliability of software across the product line.
• Attract, develop and retain a high performing team, offering ongoing feedback, professional growth opportunities, and overall career guidance.
• Provide coaching, direction and leadership support to teammates in order to achieve teammate, business unit, company and customer results.
• Challenge and inspire teammates to achieve and deliver business results.
• Enable a culture of innovation to deliver market differentiating solutions.
• Manage a team of highly skilled teammates by directing department activities to design new products, modify existing designs, design for supportability, and develop testing designs and procedures.
• Develop Operational metrics and dashboards that provide visibility into how the engineering teams are performing, and present these to the executive team and board.

PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• 15+ years progressively increasing product development including responsibility in a cloud native network software environment.
• Strong product knowledge and development of successful strategies in the Communication’s sector.
• Exceptional messaging skills in both written/oral/presentation communication skills.
• Proven experience achieving KPIs set for product and industry growth
• Leadership in a high-performance environment.
• Combine discipline, entrepreneurship, collaboration and deep knowledge of the Communication’s sector.
• Experience of agile/lean product development principles.
• Proven experience managing local and remote engineering teams
• Presenting product to an audience, in meetings, to stakeholders, 1-1.
• Ability to work in a multi-cultural, global environment
• Conceptual and strategic thinking.
• Objection handling and conflict resolution.

LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES

• Performance Drive & Execution – Holds self and others accountable for delivering shareholder value.  Creates and instills a performance driven, results-orientation culture based on data and facts.
• Collaboration – Fosters collaboration between business leaders.  Instills a sense of common purpose, joint mission, and mutual responsibility to create and support business outcomes. 
• Communicating for Impact – Ensures clarity around organization's strategic intent and business objectives.  Champions strategic initiatives in ways that generate organization-wide understanding and support.
• Inspirational Leadership –Builds internal and external reputation as a strategic business leader. Inspires and empowers others toward achievement of goals and strategies. Employs and develops the right talent at every level.
• Competitive Edge – Predicts changes in customer expectations; takes advantage of opportunities to shape and re-shape market propositions.  Builds long-term business value.
• Change Agility – Initiates strategic change initiatives in anticipation of a changing external environment.  Champions organizational change initiatives in a way that helps people understand, appreciate, and support them.
• Mastering Complexity – Makes decisions about the long-term strategy to sustainably grow the business. Creates an environment that shapes and supports cross-functional analysis of problems and decision-making.

EDUCATION

A Bachelors’ degree is preferred.  An advanced degree is a plus.

Manage a team that designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.

As a Senior Director of the software engineering division, you will apply your extensive knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to current and future design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and envision improvements to the architecture.

Directs and ensures the implementation of operational policies through subordinate managers Interacts internally and externally with executive management involving negotiation of difficult matters to influence policy. Functional expertise and broad company knowledge. Demonstrated leadership and people management skills. Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 8 or more years of software engineering or related experience.

As part of Oracle's employment process candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This will involve identity and employment verification, professional references, education verification and professional qualifications and memberships (if applicable).