Senior Manager, Platform Software Engineering

Oracle is looking for a Senior Manager of Software Development to build, lead and develop a multidisciplinary engineering team in Morocco.

Your team will work on strategic engineering capabilities spanning artificial intelligence, application infrastructure, UI frameworks and AI development tooling . Engineers will work in a matrixed model, partnering with domain leaders responsible for products and solutions including Nitro AI Development Framework, AI Fabric and AI Agent Studio .

This is a role for an engineering leader who enjoys building both high-performing teams and technology . You will combine people leadership with strong technical judgement, helping engineers turn rapidly evolving AI technologies into secure, reliable and usable platforms and services.

What you’ll do:

Build and lead the Morocco engineering team

• Build, lead and develop a high-performing software engineering organisation in Morocco.
• Recruit and retain engineers across AI, full-stack development, application infrastructure, developer tooling and UI frameworks.
• Set clear goals and provide ongoing coaching, feedback, career development and performance management.
• Develop technical leaders and create growth opportunities for engineers at different career stages.
• Build an inclusive, collaborative and accountable engineering culture.

Provide technical and delivery leadership

• Provide technical direction across AI-enabled applications, full-stack services, application infrastructure, UI frameworks and developer platforms.
• Guide teams in designing and delivering scalable, secure and reliable software and services.
• Establish strong engineering standards across architecture, APIs, testing, observability, reliability and software development.
• Help teams solve complex technical issues across distributed systems and services.
• Balance rapid experimentation with the engineering rigour required for enterprise-grade services.
• Drive improvements in platform performance, resilience, operational readiness and engineering quality.

Work across teams and organisations

• Lead engineers working in a matrixed model with functional and domain leaders.
• Partner with domain leaders to align assignments, priorities, deliverables, staffing needs and performance expectations.
• Build trusted relationships across engineering, industry teams and other partner organisations.
• Represent the Morocco engineering organisation in planning, architecture, delivery and operational reviews.
• Communicate technical decisions, priorities and risks clearly to engineering and business stakeholders.
• Adapt as business priorities, customer needs and AI technologies evolve.

Required experience

• Strong full-stack software development expertise, including modern front-end technologies, service development, APIs, data integration and cloud-based application architectures.
• Experience hiring, developing, coaching and retaining high-performing software engineers.
• Demonstrated success managing teams in a matrixed organisation , with shared accountability across functional and delivery leaders.
• Experience delivering enterprise software, cloud services, developer platforms, frameworks or shared engineering capabilities.
• Experience establishing and improving engineering standards and practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical and organisational topics clearly.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience .

Preferred experience

Experience in one or more of the following would be valuable:

• Building AI-enabled products, agentic systems, generative AI platforms or AI-assisted developer tools.
• Large language models, agent orchestration, prompt and context management, model evaluation, AI guardrails, feedback systems or AI observability.
• Building reusable SDKs, frameworks, APIs, developer tools or internal engineering platforms.
• Managing geographically distributed or multicultural engineering teams.
• Service management, site reliability engineering, incident management or operational readiness.
• Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, business administration or a related discipline.