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Overview:
The Federal Consulting team seeks a Director, Technology \& AI Delivery to own the roadmap, prioritization, and rollout of AI\-enabled delivery tools and automation across the Oracle Health Transformation Office. This is a hands\-on product and delivery leadership role — not a passive coordination position. The Director owns the AI tool roadmap and automation portfolio and drives alignment with Product and Engineering to improve the speed, consistency, visibility, and scalability of federal consulting delivery.
The Director translates business needs into product and AI tool requirements, prioritizes automation by impact and effort, and ensures the tooling roadmap supports resource enablement, gateway tracking, governance and adoption criteria, and executive dashboard needs. Partnering with Product, Engineering, and the AI Factory, the Director defines, tests, and releases tools that are embedded into the operating cadence rather than left as disconnected pilots.
Do you know how to determine which tools and automation will create the greatest acceleration impact, and how to ensure they are actually built, adopted, and measured? Are you experienced in aligning product roadmaps to federal requirements and standing up automation that scales? Do you thrive on turning business needs into tools that teams rely on every day? If so, this role may be an excellent opportunity.
Join us as we advance how health happens through technologies that support patients, clinicians, innovation, and improved outcomes. Our mission is to build a human\-centric healthcare experience powered by unified global data. We are seeking individuals who share our commitment to improving health equity and delivering quality care across the globe.
Job Responsibilities Include
- Manage the AI\-enabled delivery tools roadmap and automation portfolio across Federal Consulting.
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to ensure federal requirements are addressed on product roadmaps and that product leaders are prioritizing federal needs.
- Prioritize automation requests based on impact and effort and translate business needs into clear product or AI tool requirements.
- Own project charters for approved AI and tooling initiatives, including scope, value case, timeline, dependencies, and adoption plan.
- Ensure the tooling roadmap supports WBS readiness, resource enablement, gateway tracking, governance criteria, adoption criteria, and executive dashboard needs.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and the AI Factory to define, test, and release tools.
- Ensure tool development remains on track to meet VA deployment needs.
- Ensure tools are embedded into the operating cadence rather than left as disconnected pilots.
- Coordinate with the Change Management Lead for tooling rollout and adoption.
Basic Qualifications
- At least 10 years of total combined related work experience and completed higher education, including experience in product management, technology delivery, automation, or enterprise software development.
- Proven track record owning a product or tooling roadmap from concept through adoption, including prioritization, scoping, and release management.
- Experience defining, testing, and releasing software or automation tools in partnership with Product and Engineering teams.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize a portfolio of initiatives based on impact and effort and to translate business needs into actionable product or AI tool requirements.
- Strong understanding of AI\-enabled and automation solution patterns and how to embed them into operational delivery.
- Ability to obtain Federal security clearance (Public Trust) necessary for this role, which requires being a US citizen and residing in the US.
- High attention to detail, precision, and an unwavering commitment to delivery outcomes and measurable impact.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience in Oracle Health, healthcare IT, Federal Consulting, or federal healthcare delivery environments.
- Experience delivering technology or automation in support of VA or other federal deployment programs.
Travel expectations: 20%
Job Responsibilities Include
- Manage the AI\-enabled delivery tools roadmap and automation portfolio across Federal Consulting.
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to ensure federal requirements are addressed on product roadmaps and that product leaders are prioritizing federal needs.
- Prioritize automation requests based on impact and effort and translate business needs into clear product or AI tool requirements.
- Own project charters for approved AI and tooling initiatives, including scope, value case, timeline, dependencies, and adoption plan.
- Ensure the tooling roadmap supports WBS readiness, resource enablement, gateway tracking, governance criteria, adoption criteria, and executive dashboard needs.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and the AI Factory to define, test, and release tools.
- Ensure tool development remains on track to meet VA deployment needs.
- Ensure tools are embedded into the operating cadence rather than left as disconnected pilots.
- Coordinate with the Change Management Lead for tooling rollout and adoption.
Role Details
About This Role
AI/ML Engineers build and deploy machine learning models in production. They work across the full ML lifecycle: data pipelines, model training, evaluation, and serving infrastructure. The role has evolved significantly over the past two years. Where ML Engineers once spent most of their time on model architecture, the job now tilts heavily toward inference optimization, cost management, and integrating LLM capabilities into existing systems. Companies want engineers who can ship production systems, and the experimenter-only role is fading fast.
Day-to-day, you're writing training pipelines, debugging data quality issues, setting up evaluation frameworks, and figuring out why your model performs differently in staging than it did on your dev set. The best ML engineers are obsessive about reproducibility and measurement. They instrument everything. They know that a model is only as good as the data feeding it and the infrastructure serving it.
Across the 3,823 AI roles we're tracking, AI/ML Engineer positions make up 69% of the market. At Oracle, this role fits into their broader AI and engineering organization.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
What the Work Looks Like
A typical week might include: debugging a data pipeline that's silently dropping 3% of training examples, running A/B tests on a new model version, writing documentation for a feature flag system that lets you roll back model deployments, and reviewing a junior engineer's PR for a new evaluation metric. Meetings tend to be cross-functional since ML touches product, engineering, and data teams.
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
Skills in Demand for This Role
Python and PyTorch dominate the requirements. Most roles expect experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and familiarity with ML frameworks like TensorFlow or JAX. RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) has become a top-3 skill requirement as companies integrate LLMs into their products. Docker and Kubernetes show up in about a third of postings, reflecting the production focus of the role.
Beyond the core stack, employers increasingly want experience with experiment tracking tools (MLflow, Weights & Biases), feature stores, and vector databases. Fine-tuning experience is valuable but less common than you'd think from reading Twitter. Most production LLM work is RAG and prompt engineering, not fine-tuning. If you have both, you're in a strong position.
Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
Compensation Benchmarks
AI/ML Engineer roles pay a median of $181,170 based on 12,692 positions with disclosed compensation. Director-level AI roles across all categories have a median of $247,800.
Across all AI roles, the market median is $200,100. Top-quartile compensation starts at $253,500. The 90th percentile reaches $307,500. For comparison, the highest-paying categories include AI Engineering Manager ($275,000) and AI Safety ($274,200). By seniority level: Entry: $97,880; Mid: $165,000; Senior: $227,400; Director: $247,800; VP: $250,000.
Oracle AI Hiring
Oracle has 22 open AI roles right now. They're hiring across AI/ML Engineer, AI Agent Developer, AI Software Engineer, MLOps Engineer. Positions span US, Seattle, WA, US.
Location Context
AI roles in Austin pay a median of $215,300 across 523 tracked positions. That's 8% above the national median.
Career Path
Common paths into AI/ML Engineer roles include Data Scientist, Software Engineer, Research Engineer.
From here, career progression typically leads toward ML Architect, AI Engineering Manager, Principal ML Engineer.
The fastest path into ML engineering is through software engineering with a self-directed ML education. A CS degree helps, but production engineering skills matter more than academic credentials. Build something that works, deploy it, and measure it. That portfolio project is worth more than a Coursera certificate. For career growth, the fork comes around the senior level: go deep on technical complexity (staff/principal track) or move into managing ML teams.
What to Expect in Interviews
Expect system design questions around ML pipelines: how you'd build a training pipeline for a specific use case, handle data drift, or design A/B testing infrastructure for model deployments. Coding rounds typically involve Python, with emphasis on data manipulation (pandas, numpy) and algorithm implementation. Take-home assignments often ask you to build an end-to-end ML pipeline from raw data to deployed model.
When evaluating opportunities: Companies that are serious about AI/ML hiring tend to post specific infrastructure details in the job description: the frameworks they use, their model serving stack, their data pipeline tools. Vague postings that just say 'ML experience required' without specifics are often companies that haven't figured out what they need yet.
AI Hiring Overview
The AI job market has 3,823 open positions tracked in our dataset. By seniority: 112 entry-level, 1,798 mid-level, 1,516 senior, and 397 leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level). Remote roles make up 15% of the market (590 positions). The remaining 3,217 roles require on-site or hybrid attendance.
The market median for AI roles is $200,100. Top-quartile compensation starts at $253,500. The 90th percentile reaches $307,500. Highest-paying categories: AI Engineering Manager ($275,000 median, 41 roles); AI Safety ($274,200 median, 55 roles); Research Engineer ($260,000 median, 434 roles).
Demand for AI/ML Engineers has been strong and consistent. Unlike some AI roles that spike with hype cycles, ML engineering is a foundational need. Every company deploying AI models needs people who can keep them running, and the gap between research prototypes and production systems keeps growing.
The AI Job Market Today
The AI job market spans 3,823 open positions across 15 role categories. The largest categories by volume: AI/ML Engineer (2,629), Data Scientist (322), AI Software Engineer (279). These three account for the majority of open positions, though smaller categories often have higher per-role compensation because of specialized skill requirements.
The seniority mix tells a story about where AI teams are in their maturity. Entry-level roles (112) are outnumbered by mid-level (1,798) and senior (1,516) positions, reflecting that most companies are past the 'build a team from scratch' phase and need experienced engineers who can ship production systems. Leadership roles (Director, VP, C-Level) total 397 positions, representing the bottleneck between technical execution and organizational strategy.
Remote work availability sits at 15% of all AI roles (590 positions), with 3,217 requiring on-site or hybrid attendance. The remote share has stabilized after the post-pandemic correction. Senior and specialized roles (Research Scientist, ML Architect) are more likely to be remote-eligible than entry-level positions, partly because experienced hires have more negotiating power and partly because these roles require less hands-on mentorship.
AI compensation is structured in clear tiers. The market median sits at $200,100. Top-quartile roles start at $253,500, and the 90th percentile reaches $307,500. These figures include base salary with disclosed compensation. Total compensation (including equity, bonuses, and sign-on) runs 20-40% higher at companies that offer those components.
Category matters for compensation. AI Engineering Manager roles lead at $275,000 median, while Prompt Engineer roles sit at $140,000. The spread between highest and lowest-paying categories reflects the premium on specialized technical skills versus broader analytical roles.
The most in-demand skills across all AI postings: Python (1,979 postings), Aws (1,190 postings), Azure (899 postings), Rag (839 postings), Gcp (726 postings), Pytorch (595 postings), Prompt Engineering (595 postings), Claude (540 postings). Python dominates, appearing in the vast majority of role descriptions regardless of category. Cloud platform experience (AWS, GCP, Azure) is the second most common requirement. The newer entrants to the top skills list (RAG, vector databases, LLM APIs) reflect the shift from traditional ML toward generative AI applications.
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