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.