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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Software Development Manager - **Company:** Oracle - **Location:** Lansing, MI, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $112,800.0 - $264,100.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Computing Platforms, Big Data, Cloud Database, Data Infrastructure, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Meta-Data Management, Oracle (Applications), Software Engineering, SQL Databases, Enterprise Data Management, Enterprise Software Applications, Large Language Models, Apache Spark, Data Lakehouse, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Data Pipelines - **Published:** August 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.mitalent.org/job-seeker/job-details/JobCode/401481921 ## About the Role * 6+ years of engineering experience, including recent experience leading engineers - as a manager, tech lead, or forward-deployed/solutions lead - in a customer- or field-facing capacity. * Hands-on technical depth in big-data and data-platform technologies: Spark (or equivalent large-scale compute), SQL, data pipelines/ETL, and cloud data storage and management. * Proven track record of taking ambiguous customer problems from concept to a working solution, demo, or POC - and ideally into production adoption and operational stability. * Strong customer-facing skills: able to earn technical credibility with enterprise stakeholders, present to both engineers and executives, and manage expectations under pressure. * Demonstrated ability to turn one-off solutions into reusable assets (accelerators, libraries, tooling, templates) that scale beyond a single engagement. * Exceptional communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence across Product, Engineering, Sales, and customer organizations. * Comfort operating with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and multiple concurrent engagements., * Experience with modern data-lakehouse and open table formats (e.g., Delta, Iceberg, Hudi), data cataloging, and governance. * Hands-on experience building demos or applications with LLMs / GenAI, agents, or RAG over enterprise data. * Familiarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and/or Oracle's data and application ecosystem (Autonomous Database/ADW, Fusion, EPM, OAC). * Prior experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, or in a professional-services engineering role at an enterprise software or data-platform company. * Willingness to travel to customer sites as needed. ## Description We are seeking an experienced Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering to build and lead a team of FDEs who win technical confidence through compelling demos and proofs-of-concept, and who scale their impact by productizing field patterns into accelerators, tooling, and reference solutions. This is a hands-on technical leadership role - close enough to the work to unblock a customer POC or review an accelerator's design, and strategic enough to shape how the FDE function operates and how field signal informs the AIDP roadmap., * Build, coach, and lead a high-performing team of Forward Deployed Engineers who partner directly with enterprise customers and Oracle field teams to prove the value of AIDP. * Own the demo and proof-of-concept motion: set the bar for credible, high-impact technical demonstrations (e.g., Deep Insights agents, DFL pipelines, notebooks, and agent flows) that convert strategic opportunities into technical wins and account expansion. * Drive the creation of reusable accelerators, tooling, plugins, and reference solutions that capture field learnings once and let every FDE and customer reuse them - reducing time-to-value on each new engagement. * Establish repeatable engineering practices for the FDE team: solution templates, demo/POC standards, code-quality bars, and a shared accelerator library, so quality scales with the team rather than living in individuals' heads. * Partner with Sales, Solution Engineering, and customer stakeholders to scope engagements, size technical effort, and sequence work that balances a fast first impression with a durable path to production. * Serve as the escalation point and senior technical reviewer for the hardest customer problems: architecture, big-data performance (Spark and equivalent compute engines), data integration, and integration across Oracle's cloud and application ecosystem. * Close the loop with Product, Engineering, and Science: synthesize recurring field patterns, gaps, and customer requirements into clear, prioritized input to the AIDP roadmap. * Drive pilots and joint initiatives with strategic customers and partners to accelerate adoption of Oracle's AI Data Platform offerings. * Manage team health and growth: hiring, onboarding, career development, performance, and workload balance across concurrent customer engagements. ## Related Videos - [PySpark - Combining Machine Learning & Big Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/44-pyspark-combining-machine-learning-big-data) - [Alibaba Big Data and Machine Learning Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/37-alibaba-big-data-and-machine-learning-technology) - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) - [Fault Tolerance and Consistency at Scale: Harnessing the Power of Distributed SQL Databases](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1146-fault-tolerance-and-consistency-at-scale-harnessing-the-power-of-distributed-sql-databases) - [Let's Get Aggregated: Custom UDAFs in Spark ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1649-let-s-get-aggregated-custom-udafs-in-spark) - [Why and when should we consider Stream Processing frameworks in our solutions](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1085-why-and-when-should-we-consider-stream-processing-frameworks-in-our-solutions) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development) - [Coffee with Developers - Maria Apazoglou - Making AI understandable for all in production](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/475-coffee-with-developers-maria-apazoglou-making-ai-understandable-for-all-in-production)