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OCI Media Services

As a Director of Software Development in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you will build and lead engineering teams in the delivery and operation of cloud services that will enable animation, film, and game development studios to migrate their entire production pipeline to the cloud.

You will work with executive leadership to chart a path to success, providing influence and direction based on your experience as an engineering leader. Director is a substantial technical leadership role with responsibility for multiple engineering teams. Highly evolved soft skills and excellent communication and the ability to lead and collaborate with others are hallmarks. You will mentor managers and engineers and must be capable of driving complex technical projects and initiatives independently and with confidence. You will have continuous opportunities to lead and be a catalyst for technical innovation.

The charter is responsible for a new set of cloud services focused specifically on the digital media production industry. Product areas include virtual animation workstation service, digital asset management, high-performance storage, render farm as a service, license management, and production pipeline management services. This is an opportunity to build a competitive offering from the ground up and extend the reach of OCI to address green field opportunities in the media and entertainment industry.

Minimum Qualifications:

• At least 6 years of large/enterprise scale software development and engineering team management experience including management of managers and multiple engineering teams.

• Experience leading the development of cloud services.

• Experience collaborating with geo-distributed teams.

• BS/CS Computer Science or related field.

• Strong technical knowledge and experience with overall software development process models as well as expert knowledge of both Agile and traditional project management principles and practices and the ability to blend them in the right proportions to fit a project and business environment.

• Solid analytical, planning, and interpersonal skills with an ability to handle competing demands.

• Excellent oral and written communication skills and experience interacting with both business and engineering staff at all levels including the executive level.

Nice-to-have Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience in building highly available, high-traffic, distributed services, possessing knowledge of common service-oriented design patterns and service-to-service communication protocols. Familiarity with concepts such as availability, observability, scalability, testability, recoverability, etc.

• Good understanding of developing customer-facing microservice-based architectures, tiered architectures, including virtualization, containerization, and REST APIs.

• Previous experience in utilizing public cloud services from the current major providers (such as Oracle, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, etc.) in developing complex software products.

• Domain knowledge and experience with workflows and pipelines for media production – digital asset management and namespaces, familiarity with 3d frameworks, universal scene description, scene graphs, layers and models, 3d data packaging, rendering workflows, image composition, tools used in the workflow by artists, engineers, editors, and content creators is a plus.

Career Level - M4

Responsibilities

• Recruit and hire engineering staff capable of delivering cloud services in a DevOps model.

• Direct, lead, and coach engineering teams to deliver and operate cloud services that enable animation, film, and game development studios to run their production workflows in the cloud.

• Stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry best practices, ensuring compliance and driving innovation within the organization.

• Launching new cloud services and establishing operational excellence.

• Setting and driving the technical direction for engineering org.

• Building high performing geographically distributed engineering teams.

• Coaching, mentoring, and developing the best talent.

• Establishing and stimulating software development standards and processes along with best practices for the entire org.

• Developing strategic plans to accomplish technical as well as business objectives with leadership chain, team, and customers.

• Defining OKRs and KPIs to inform decision-making and prioritization.

• Set goals and expectations for team and individual performance, work with employees to establish specific, measurable goals and commitments.

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