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Job DescriptionOracle is at the forefront of the digital revolution. We are empowering nearly half a million businesses across the globe to turn untapped potential into real business value. Would you like to join us in connecting the biggest enterprises of today, with the tools to compete in the digital economy of tomorrow?
We have exciting new opportunities in expanding Oracle’s cloud business in our CTO Office – positioning and then ensuring successful implementation of transformational solutions. If you are passionate, entrepreneurial, innovative, consultative, value-focused, and want to have fun whilst you work, then this could be the perfect opportunity for you.
This architecture role comprises a combination of both technical and soft skills. If you have strong all-round technical skills, the ability to engage with people, can build trusted relationships, lead technical teams, communicate ideas, and build consensus, then you are just the kind of person we are looking for.
Your contribution will be pivotal in helping customers transform their IT estate with Oracle cloud. Engaging with customers to understand their business drivers as well as current technical challenges, designing large-scale strategic architectures.
Driving customer success through high-quality architectural solutions is the cornerstone of our ambitions. Your ability to design solutions that address non-functional requirements, such as security, network, performance, resilience, and service management, will ensure the best possible outcome for our customers.
At Oracle, you will enjoy a high degree of responsibility and autonomy. The rewards for your contribution include a competitive compensation and benefits package, and a continuous training program in a structured environment that is world-class.
We aim to make Oracle a fun and rewarding place to work, and you will join a community of like-minded architects who are always keen to support and help each other.
What you’ll doReporting directly to the regional Field CTO, you will lead the architectural definition for transformational platform-based cloud adoption including:
Dedicated Region, Alloy
Combined C3 / ExaCC farms
Platform adoption of Public Cloud
Hyperscaler to OCI Platforms
Critical opportunities directly identified by regional SVPs
ResponsibilitiesYou will be supported by a highly collaborative team that includes solutioning specialists. You will have the opportunity to design the solution architecture, map it to Oracle cloud services, define a target deployment architecture that delivers a best-practice solution for the customer, define a migration path, and ensure that the architecture adapts to the customer journey.
Your activities will include:
Approach architecture executive sessions
Explaining and generating reference architecture and customer examples
Fitting solutions to customer situations
Owning the platform architecture
Defining the solution roadmap
Creating the Foundation Architecture (Solution Definition)
Accountability for all workload architectures delivered by Specialists to run on the platform architecture you define
Pattern creation & evangelism – Codify landing-zone templates, automation scripts, and industry-specific value propositions;
publish to Oracle portals both internal and external.
You can look forward to being a leading participant in the EMEA and Global Architecture Communities within Oracle.
Continually developing our architects is of critical importance to Oracle, and you will have the opportunity to put regular time aside to stay abreast of new technologies, new products, and services, and to stay very much in touch with emerging technology both inside and outside Oracle.
Oracle will provide training throughout your career to develop your technical skills and your soft skills.
What You’ll BringYour enthusiasm, knowledge, and passion for customer success will help us become the number one cloud company in the world.
Architectural skills and experience are important, including:
a good general understanding of cloud architecture and hybrid on-premise/cloud designs
strong architectural understanding of all technical aspects of a cloud solution including networking, security, resilience, and connectivity
excellent communication and presentation skills with high comfort speaking across all levels of management (e.G., IT management, Architects, administrators, and executives)
strong collaboration skills and the ability to build virtual teams to deliver broad-based architecture deliverables
Experience in engaging and influencing senior leaders
Strong industry background – e.G., Banking or Telco experience.
In addition, technical skills required include:
12+ years experience as an architect on large-scale application and database modernizations or migrations
Working knowledge of OCI and other hyperscalers
Experience analyzing large application and database estates
Ability to build complex migration strategies involving many systems
Track record of reference architecture publication
Knowledge of migration tools such as Rackware and Matilda
Exposure to cloud onboarding
Experience managing large VMWare and OpenShift estates
No Visa Sponsorship is available for this position.
Applicants must have proficient English skills for reading, writing, and speaking, and excellent language skills for the countries they will work in.
As part of Oracle's employment process, candidates will undergo a pre-employment screening including identity and employment verification, references, education, and professional qualifications.
QualificationsAbout UsOracle is a leader in cloud solutions, using innovative technology to address today’s challenges. We partner with industry leaders across sectors and have thrived for over 40 years by operating with integrity.
We believe true innovation starts with an inclusive workforce that promotes opportunities for all.
Oracle offers global career opportunities with work-life balance, competitive benefits, flexible medical, life insurance, and retirement options. We support employee community involvement through volunteer programs.
We are committed to including people with disabilities at all employment stages. For accessibility assistance, contact us at +1 888 404 2494 in the US.
Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristics. We consider applicants with arrest and conviction records as per law.
Seniority level:
Mid-Senior level
Employment type:
Full-time
Job function:
Engineering and IT, IT Services and Consulting
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