Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Oracle is a leading company that integrates data, infrastructure, applications, and expertise to drive innovations across various industries. They are seeking a Lead Consulting Developer to focus on developing and optimizing Python code for AI and machine learning initiatives, while also mentoring junior engineers and ensuring best practices in software development. This role requires obtaining Federal Security clearance and is intended for US-based citizens.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for broad software design, code quality, and architecture decisions
- Lead and direct design sessions and code reviews for functional correctness, architectural maintainability, and performance
- Quickly comprehend and debug complex, unfamiliar codebases
- Ability to multi-task and deal with changing priorities
- Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers and peers
- Drive adoption of engineering best practices across the team
- Collaborate closely with stakeholders to ensure requirements are clearly defined and delivered
- Contribute to and own critical project planning, estimation, and delivery timelines
- Promote a culture of innovation, teamwork, and continuous improvement
- Ensure security and compliance requirements are addressed in the software development lifecycle
Skills
- BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, with 6+ years of professional experience
- Extensive hands-on software design and programming experience, including deep expertise with Python
- Proven experience designing and building distributed systems and large-scale architectures
- Strong experience implementing microservices on leading container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)
- Demonstrated ability to optimize systems for performance, efficiency, reliability, and scalability
- Strong customer focus with a track record of delivering robust and maintainable solutions
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, with experience collaborating across global teams
- Advanced troubleshooting, analytical, and performance tuning skills in Cloud environments
- Hands-on Cloud development experience across major platforms (Oracle Cloud, AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience working in an Agile development environment
- Proven track record building and operating Generative AI, Agentic, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems
- Experience supporting and automating ML Ops pipelines
- Comfortable working directly with data scientists and research/innovation teams
- Familiarity with code generation assist technologies
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
Company Overview
Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions. It was founded in 1977, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.oracle.com/.