Master, Principal Cloud Architect (Remote)

Description

Partners with customers, sales, engineering and product teams to design, demonstrate and deploy Oracle Cloud architectures that address customer business problems. Drives Oracle Cloud customer consumption by accelerating the adoption of Oracle cloud services including discovery, design and deployment.

Responsible for engaging with strategic and more complex customers, builds leadership relationships at multiple levels within organizations in order to design and implement solutions. Works directly with customers to gather requirements, develop architectures and translates business needs into solutions. May implement solutions and ensure successful deployments through code development and scripting. Displays product/application understanding through highly customized presentation demonstrations to customers and at conferences and events. Supports customer from Proof of Concept (POC) through production deployment of services via resource configuration, planning, and customer education/training. Creates and distributes technical assets (white papers, solution code, blog posts, and video demonstrations). Provides leadership and expertise in the development of new solutions, products, and processes. Maintains expertise by staying current on emerging technologies. Acts as an acknowledged authority for customers and sales on technical cloud solutions and customer success. Viewed by peers as a leader and top contributor and by line management as a key business partner. Identifies gaps and enhancements to influence engineering roadmaps for customer driven features. Maintains expertise by staying current on emerging technologies.

Minimum qualifications include: 12 years experience with computer applications and tools required. Ability to travel 50% international and domestic.

Preferred but not required qualifications include: Bachelor of Science-level university degree in Computer Science, Math, Engineering from accredited university; and/or relevant 12 years technical experience. Advanced degree in relevant field of studies highly desirable. Expertise in and an in depth and thorough knowledge of penetrating accounts, meeting stakeholders within accounts, and interaction with C level; Competitive and industry knowledge in the field of computer applications and tools; System and application design; Implementation of advanced product features; Project management; Solving technical problems with customers in technical environments; Written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills; Needs analysis, positioning, and business justification. 12 years experience and expertise in the clear communication of technical information to others through presentations, demonstrations, written communication and consultative solutioning experience.

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Responsibilities

The Enterprise Principal Cloud Architect will be working closely – depending on each case - with Oracle Sales to develop new business as well as to position Oracle’s Solutions at the heart of the largest transformations, including focus on solutions based on Oracle Public Cloud Services.

Oracle Enterprise Cloud Architects bridge the gap between business and technology –speaking the value language of business and technology with C level individuals. They combine a deep understanding of technology, applications, industry best practices, business processes and architectural patterns to drive IT transformation initiatives that meet the business objectives of our customers.

Ideal Candidates will be senior level professionals who not only possess deep experience with technology transformation but also significant experience in cloud.

Responsibilities:

Lead and execute with a cloud first mind set helping customers realize benefits of an Oracle cloud based architecture

Contribute to and drive large Oracle X-LOB deals including Oracle IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS cloud services

Work in collaboration with local account team (X-stack –infrastructure, technology and applications), Global Client Advisors, and Key Account Directors

Lead all consultative selling enabling services including domain architects, sales consulting, Business Analyst, etc.

Exercise creativity, independent judgment and business acumen in selecting methods and techniques to design non-routine and very complex business solutions utilizing Oracle products and technology to meet customer needs

Interact with all roles at customer – including CIO, CTO, IT Architects, technical staff and Business representatives

Articulate case for change

Lead detailed discovery analysis

Conduct repeatable strategy, architecture, roadmap and planning workshops

Provide assessment of current state architecture and recommendation of future state architecture

Provide detailed sizing and associated justification

Identify and evangelize key business and technology benefits of adoption

Provide roadmap and migration methodology and identify quick wins

Advise on organizational impact of solutions

Remain fully aware of relevant architectural programs and assets from Oracle worldwide

Wide background including architecture, implementation and delivery of large scale hardware and software systems in real-world situations

Cloud Architecture Development

Cloud certification (Oracle, AWS, Azure, Google, etc.)

Hands on skills with CI/CD & build automation tooling (Chef, Terraform, Ansible, etc.)

Strong hands-on Linux and/or KVM experience is preferred

Strong understanding of traditional monolithic and cloud-native application frameworks

Ability to walk up the cloud stack (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) model with modern terminology and relevance

Architecture or other appropriate certifications like CISSP, TOGAF, Zachman, OpenCA, ITIL, Cobit, Prince is preferred

A strong understanding and practical experience in planning and delivering cloud migration projects from traditional on-premise deployment models

Knowledge of wide-area and datacenter networking design, protocols, and implementation preferred

Wide knowledge of IT market and trends

Knowledge of full Oracle stack including Oracle Public Cloud Services

Knowledge of cloud competitors including AWS and/or Azure

Some specific knowledge of Oracle and competitor hardware solutions

Some specific knowledge of Oracle database and middleware technology

Some specific knowledge of Oracle applications

Some specific knowledge of Oracle industry solutions

Detailed knowledge of architectural approaches including consolidation, cloud computing, virtualization, disaster recovery, information management, big data, Java applications, Oracle and non-Oracle applications

Significant C-level presentation expertise

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