{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"ae441e5990fec47fe7a8a63e","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ae441e5990fec47fe7a8a63e","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ae441e5990fec47fe7a8a63e","title":"Lead Principal Application Software Engineer","description":"Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the application software development lifecycle; coaches engineers across teams or units to drive application-focused improvements. Acts as a subject matter expert within the organization to develop and guide new application features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify application design and code. Leads process, architecture, and code reviews across application projects and/or products/services to drive improvements. Utilizes modern/emerging technologies to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix highly complex application issues. Resolves and may troubleshoot highly complex and systemic issues requiring innovation related to application programming interface (API) functionality, integration, and service-to-service interactions. Leads task and project initiatives for the design and development of application software, systems, and services. Defines project or design scope; reviews, influences, and approves scope and design recommendations for application components and services. Collaborates with stakeholders internally and externally to lead efforts to understand customer use cases, root causes, and mitigations to align and explain rationale behind application solutions. Must provide expert technical guidance and support to customers regarding application-related issues to mitigate recurrence. Collaborates with the security team and leadership teams to establish, follow, and improve upon application development practices, secure coding standards, and code quality, providing coaching to less experienced team members. Leads project initiatives for periodic maintenance and testing operations for application systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).\n\nKey Responsibilities\nApplication Software Development:\nArchitects and delivers multi-team features and modernization initiatives with clear, organization-level KPIs.\nEstablishes global production-readiness standards (SLOs, error budgets, incident tooling) and drives adoption.\nDiagnoses and resolves high-severity, multi-system failures; creates systemic reliability improvements across apps/OCI.\nHarmonizes QA strategy across teams (test pyramids, non-functional testing) to ensure consistent app quality.\nMakes significant architectural decisions; leads migrations and pattern adoptions with deprecation plans.\nCreates scalable blueprints and reference implementations adopted by multiple teams.\nDefines cross-team API governance and dependency management frameworks.\nShapes prioritization across multiple teams using data from field/customer, telemetry, and live-site signals.\nInstitutionalizes feedback loops into planning cadences; measures impact.\nMentors Staff engineers; partners with Product and Design to balance customer value and technical strategy.\nSoftware Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:\nLeads project initiatives to design software solutions and identify and analyze requirements. Writes and defines foundational code for new projects or prototypes.\nAdheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; coaches engineers across teams or units to drive improvements.\nActs as a subject matter expert within the organization to develop and guide new software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.\nLeads process, architecture, and code reviews across projects and/or products/services to drive improvements.\nUtilizes modern/emerging technologies to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix highly complex software issues.\nLeads strategic initiatives to optimize software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging.\nEncourages innovation, research, and relevant industry practices to optimize performance across products and domains.\nResolves and may troubleshoot highly complex and systematic issues requiring innovation related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.\nImplements innovative API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.\nSoftware Architecture - Software System Structural Design:\nLeads task and project initiatives for the design and development of software, systems, and services. Defines project or design scope; reviews, influences, and approves scope and design recommendations.\nProvides technical guidance, domain expertise, and coaching in software architecture decisions and best practices that drive key organizational decisions, including industry standards and competitive considerations, providing mentorship and coaching for small teams and peers and contributing to both individual and team development across line of business/function.\nUtilizes innovative methods to conduct highly complex periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.\nCollaborates with stakeholders across lines of business and externally, to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities.\nImplements innovative performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.\nConducts regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements and translates into decisions and plans that can have a major impact on the organization.\nIssue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:\nCollaborates with stakeholders internally and externally to lead efforts to understand customer issues, root causes, and mitigation to align and explain rationale behind solutions.\nMust provide expert technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues to mitigate recurrence.\nActs as an advisor to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements and solutions based on feedback.\nNetworks across lines of business to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.\nGuides implementation of strategic solutions for customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.\nInvestigates and troubleshoots the most complex and broadly reaching product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).\nPractices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:\nCollaborates with the security team and leadership teams to establish, follow, and improve upon development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.\nParticipates in peer review processes and provides technical leadership with initiatives to ensure quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.\nDemonstrates, contributes to, and shares deep expertise of industry best practices and their application to software development processes.\nImplements highly complex secure software development practices/solutions requiring modern/emerging innovation to prevent security vulnerabilities, leveraging automated solutions to augment the manual review process.\nDevelopment Operations - System Maintenance:\nLeads project initiatives for periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).\nActs as subject matter expert to drive improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.\nCore Responsibilities\nPlanning & Execution:\nManages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to requirements.\nAnticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.\nCollaboration & Partnership:\nInfluences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives.\nFosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success.\nChampions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.\nProblem Solving:\nLeads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues.\nGuides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drives the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.\nContinuous Learning:\nLeverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization.\nContributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions).\nMaintains and evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices.\nChampions continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams. Applies new knowledge to drive advancement and mentors others to do the same.\nContinuous Improvement:\nDevelops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization.\nEvaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals.\nDesigns and develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.\nPerformance and Development:\nServes as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy.\nImparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.","company":"Oracle","rawCompany":"oracle","city":"Denver","state":"CO","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-14T13:44:53.959Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1211.00","title":"Computer Systems Analysts","slug":"computer-systems-analysts"}],"industries":[{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Lead Principal Application Software Engineer","description":"Adheres to and improves execution of all phases of the application software development lifecycle; coaches engineers across teams or units to drive application-focused improvements. Acts as a subject matter expert within the organization to develop and guide new application features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify application design and code. Leads process, architecture, and code reviews across application projects and/or products/services to drive improvements. Utilizes modern/emerging technologies to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix highly complex application issues. Resolves and may troubleshoot highly complex and systemic issues requiring innovation related to application programming interface (API) functionality, integration, and service-to-service interactions. Leads task and project initiatives for the design and development of application software, systems, and services. Defines project or design scope; reviews, influences, and approves scope and design recommendations for application components and services. Collaborates with stakeholders internally and externally to lead efforts to understand customer use cases, root causes, and mitigations to align and explain rationale behind application solutions. Must provide expert technical guidance and support to customers regarding application-related issues to mitigate recurrence. Collaborates with the security team and leadership teams to establish, follow, and improve upon application development practices, secure coding standards, and code quality, providing coaching to less experienced team members. Leads project initiatives for periodic maintenance and testing operations for application systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).\n\nKey Responsibilities\nApplication Software Development:\nArchitects and delivers multi-team features and modernization initiatives with clear, organization-level KPIs.\nEstablishes global production-readiness standards (SLOs, error budgets, incident tooling) and drives adoption.\nDiagnoses and resolves high-severity, multi-system failures; creates systemic reliability improvements across apps/OCI.\nHarmonizes QA strategy across teams (test pyramids, non-functional testing) to ensure consistent app quality.\nMakes significant architectural decisions; leads migrations and pattern adoptions with deprecation plans.\nCreates scalable blueprints and reference implementations adopted by multiple teams.\nDefines cross-team API governance and dependency management frameworks.\nShapes prioritization across multiple teams using data from field/customer, telemetry, and live-site signals.\nInstitutionalizes feedback loops into planning cadences; measures impact.\nMentors Staff engineers; partners with Product and Design to balance customer value and technical strategy.\nSoftware Development and Coding - Design, Testing, and Optimization:\nLeads project initiatives to design software solutions and identify and analyze requirements. Writes and defines foundational code for new projects or prototypes.\nAdheres to and improves execution of all phases of the software development lifecycle; coaches engineers across teams or units to drive improvements.\nActs as a subject matter expert within the organization to develop and guide new software features and enhancements following design specifications, ensuring accessibility, and develops documents to clarify software design and code.\nLeads process, architecture, and code reviews across projects and/or products/services to drive improvements.\nUtilizes modern/emerging technologies to conduct debugging and troubleshooting to identify and fix highly complex software issues.\nLeads strategic initiatives to optimize software testing (e.g., functional and non-functional), quality assurance processes, software error logging, monitoring, and observability for effective debugging.\nEncourages innovation, research, and relevant industry practices to optimize performance across products and domains.\nResolves and may troubleshoot highly complex and systematic issues requiring innovation related to application programming interface (API) functionality and integration.\nImplements innovative API versioning, lifecycle, and interoperability strategies.\nSoftware Architecture - Software System Structural Design:\nLeads task and project initiatives for the design and development of software, systems, and services. Defines project or design scope; reviews, influences, and approves scope and design recommendations.\nProvides technical guidance, domain expertise, and coaching in software architecture decisions and best practices that drive key organizational decisions, including industry standards and competitive considerations, providing mentorship and coaching for small teams and peers and contributing to both individual and team development across line of business/function.\nUtilizes innovative methods to conduct highly complex periodic reviews and ensures adherence to architectural standards.\nCollaborates with stakeholders across lines of business and externally, to align and build software architecture with business and/or customer goals and priorities.\nImplements innovative performance optimization and scalability strategies in software design.\nConducts regular technology research and evaluation for architectural enhancements and translates into decisions and plans that can have a major impact on the organization.\nIssue/Defect Collaboration - Software Products Support:\nCollaborates with stakeholders internally and externally to lead efforts to understand customer issues, root causes, and mitigation to align and explain rationale behind solutions.\nMust provide expert technical guidance and support to customers regarding customer-reported issues to mitigate recurrence.\nActs as an advisor to advocate for customers' interests and suggests product enhancements and solutions based on feedback.\nNetworks across lines of business to ensure customer satisfaction through timely resolution of issues and effective communication.\nGuides implementation of strategic solutions for customer issue and/or defect handling and training processes.\nInvestigates and troubleshoots the most complex and broadly reaching product maintenance issues to ensure customer agreement on short- and long-term solutions (e.g., future enhancements).\nPractices and Standards Compliance - Security and Compliance:\nCollaborates with the security team and leadership teams to establish, follow, and improve upon development practices and coding standards, providing coaching to less experienced team members.\nParticipates in peer review processes and provides technical leadership with initiatives to ensure quality and adherence to broad acceptance criteria during development.\nDemonstrates, contributes to, and shares deep expertise of industry best practices and their application to software development processes.\nImplements highly complex secure software development practices/solutions requiring modern/emerging innovation to prevent security vulnerabilities, leveraging automated solutions to augment the manual review process.\nDevelopment Operations - System Maintenance:\nLeads project initiatives for periodic maintenance and testing operations for systems that require upgrading or patching (e.g., for critical vulnerabilities).\nActs as subject matter expert to drive improvements, ensures automation, testing, and debugging of systems to ensure service/product availability, health, support, and reliability.\nCore Responsibilities\nPlanning & Execution:\nManages and provides direction on timelines, deliverables, and budgets when applicable for critical high-impact projects or initiatives that impact the line of business, ensuring timely completion and adherence to requirements.\nAnticipates and plans for shifts in resources or timelines based on changing business priorities, ensuring optimal outcomes.\nCollaboration & Partnership:\nInfluences cross-functional leaders and external stakeholders to gain alignment on strategic objectives.\nFosters partnerships with key business leaders, stakeholders, and/or customers, identifying opportunities for expanding partnerships and promoting long-term organizational success.\nChampions transparency and inclusivity by actively seeking, listening to, and incorporating diverse perspectives.\nProblem Solving:\nLeads specialized, advanced problem-solving efforts, serving as an escalation point for complex issues.\nGuides others to leverage innovative data-driven techniques to address ambiguous or novel issues, identify root causes, and drives the implementation of solutions that prevent future issues.\nContinuous Learning:\nLeverages deep industry knowledge and expertise to serve as a thought leader within the organization.\nContributes to the advancement of the field or industry through thought leadership (e.g., conference presentations, white papers, research contributions).\nMaintains and evolves expertise in relevant areas by proactively monitoring emerging trends, technologies, and industry standards, ensuring the organization remains current with best practices.\nChampions continuous learning and knowledge sharing, promoting professional development across teams. Applies new knowledge to drive advancement and mentors others to do the same.\nContinuous Improvement:\nDevelops innovative solutions and drives the implementation of ideas that increase the efficiency and effectiveness of processes, protocols, and workflows across the organization.\nEvaluates effectiveness of updated approaches and methods for continued improvement to enhance efficiencies and ensure changes align with organizational goals.\nDesigns and develops metrics to measure success of improvement initiatives.\nPerformance and Development:\nServes as a subject matter expert regarding talent needs and organizational talent strategy.\nImparts leadership and expert knowledge throughout the talent development pipeline including candidate interviews, candidate assessment, and hiring decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational talent strategy.","datePosted":"2026-08-14T13:44:53.959Z","dateModified":"2026-08-14T13:44:53.959Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Oracle","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Denver","addressRegion":"CO","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"ae441e5990fec47fe7a8a63e"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/ae441e5990fec47fe7a8a63e"}}