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Group Vice President, Compute Control Plane

Opower

United States · $265k–$520k a year · Posted October 14, 2026

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Role Overview

The Group Vice President, Compute Control Plane will lead the engineering organization responsible for the core software systems that power the Compute infrastructure portfolio.This leader will own the evolution, scale, reliability, and operational excellence of the common compute platform and the control plane responsible for provisioning, placement, lifecycle management, health management, capacity orchestration, and fleet operations.The role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud infrastructure software, control-plane architecture, large-scale service design, and operating mission-critical systems at hyperscale. The GVP will drive architectural consistency, simplify complex systems, improve engineering velocity, and raise the bar on reliability and operational performance.

A major component of the role will be using AI transformation to take the platform and engineering organization to the next level. The GVP will drive practical adoption of AI across software engineering, testing, operations, reliability, incident management, fleet orchestration, and engineering productivity.This is both an engineering and business leadership role. The GVP will connect platform and AI-transformation investments to customer experience, capacity availability, cost, efficiency, reliability, and measurable business outcomes.

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US: Hiring Range in USD from: $264,500 to $519,900 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

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Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following: 1. Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion 2. Short term disability and long term disability 3. Life insurance and AD&D 4. Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child) 5. Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts 6. Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits 7. 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match 8. 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. 9. 11 paid holidays 10. 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. 11. Paid parental leave 12. Adoption assistance 13. Employee Stock Purchase Plan 14. Financial planning and group legal 15. Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

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Key Responsibilities

Compute Platform Ownership

Own the engineering strategy, roadmap, execution, and operational health of the common compute software platform.

Drive continued evolution toward greater scale, consistency, modularity, reliability, and operational simplicity.

Compute Control Plane

Own the architecture, engineering, and operation of the compute control plane across provisioning, scheduling, placement, capacity allocation, lifecycle management, configuration and state management, health monitoring, remediation, fleet orchestration, failure recovery, and service APIs.

AI Transformation and Engineering Productivity

Drive adoption of AI across the software development and operational lifecycle.

Use AI-assisted development tools to improve developer productivity, code quality, testing, debugging, modernization, and engineering velocity.

Apply AI to observability, anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, incident response, troubleshooting, automated remediation, capacity forecasting, scheduling, placement, and fleet optimization.

Distributed Systems and Platform Architecture

Set a high technical bar for distributed systems design across consistency models, state management, concurrency, fault tolerance, partitioning, replication, recovery, idempotency, dependency management, and service isolation.

Software Reliability and Operational Excellence

Own the operational health and reliability of the compute platform and control plane. Drive co