About the job
Oracle 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. So, 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, 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 in their journey to Oracle cloud. Engaging with customers to understand their current deployments, designing both large-scale strategic architectures as well as focused solution architectures to address a both the customer’s short-term and long-term needs. Your ability to design solutions that address non-functional requirements, such as security, network, performance, resilience, service management will ensure the best possible outcome for our customers.
Enterprise Technology Architects take responsibility for architecture from the initial idea right through to deployment. The sense of achievement in over-seeing the successful evolution of your solutions from inception to delivery is one of the most rewarding aspects of the role. Driving customer success, through high-quality architectural solutions, is the very cornerstone of our ambitions. You will be instrumental in the customer adoption of your solutions and, as a result, building long-standing business and IT value for the customer.
At Oracle, you will enjoy a high degree of responsibility and autonomy. The rewards for your contribution include a compensation and benefits package, and a continuous training program in a structured environment, that are world-class. We always aim to make Oracle a fun and rewarding place to work, and you will be joining a community of hundreds of like-minded architects who are always very keen to support and help each other.
What you’ll do:
In conjunction with the sales team, one of your key responsibilities will be to deliver compelling customer presentations that illustrate the architectural vision and articulate the benefits and value delivered by your solutions.
Other responsibilities will include:
- Drives Oracle Cloud customer consumption by accelerating the adoption of Oracle cloud services including discovery, design and deployment.
- Engages with strategic 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.
- Displays product/application understanding through highly customized presentation demonstrations to customers, and at conferences, and events.
- Creates and distributes technical assets (white papers, solution code, blog posts, and video demonstrations).
- Serves as a leading contributor for customers and sales on technical cloud solutions and customer success.
- Identifies gaps and enhancements to influence engineering roadmaps for customer-driven features.
Leading contributor may provide direction and mentoring to others.
You can look forward to being an active participant in the Architecture Community within Oracle, both using and contributing to reference architectures. The Oracle architecture community is friendly and supportive, and you will be able to call upon the broader community for help, and in time contribute to the community.
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 Bring:
Your enthusiasm, knowledge, and passion for customer success will help us become the number one cloud company in the world.
Architectural skills and experience are clearly important aspects of this role. These include:
- Relevant experience on IT industry on a presales architect role
- Experience / Lead role in large-scale transformation projects
- Positive, proactive, motivated, and goal-oriented, to lead the action in a complex, changing, and undefined context.
