Senior Manager, Application Software Engineering at Oracle
Topeka, KS
$118,300–$264,100from the description
Jul 9, 2026
Topeka, KS
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering management role responsible for leading a team that builds and maintains shared platform services, including backend systems, workflow automation, observability tooling, and AI-assisted developer tooling. The position involves owning delivery across a portfolio of technical work, setting engineering standards, and partnering with cross-functional teams. Suited to an experienced engineering leader with a background in platform or infrastructure engineering and distributed systems.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (10)
The role is titled 'Senior Manager' (Career Level M3) with explicit direct-report hiring, coaching, performance management, and succession planning responsibilities — this is a people-management role, not an IC engineering role, making 11-3021 the primary SOC. 15-1252 is listed as the runner-up because the JD also demands strong hands-on technical depth (system design, code reviews, architecture tradeoffs).
Location is stated as 'United States' with no specific city or metro named; no CBSA could be assigned.
Clearance is stated as 'must be able to obtain and maintain the required security clearance' with U.S. citizenship required. The specific level is not named in the posting; 'Secret' is the most common baseline for healthcare/government-adjacent platform work at Oracle Health, but the exact level is unspecified — treat this as a flag rather than a confirmed level.
Degree requirement: the JD states 'BS in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent practical experience),' which means equivalent experience is accepted — no hard degree gate.
OCI is 'strongly preferred' over AWS/Azure/GCP per the Preferred Qualifications section; all cloud platforms are preferred, not required.
Java/Python/Go/C# appear only under Preferred Qualifications as 'familiarity with … or similar languages' — not a hard gate.
Workflow automation, observability, and test automation appear under Preferred Qualifications; listed as preferred accordingly.
Distributed systems and API design are called out explicitly in the required 'Strong system design skills' gate and are marked as required.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): API design, workflow automation.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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