Oracle Hiring for Senior Principal Cloud Architect, Cloud Solutions Architect at BENGALURU, India Full Time

Job Description

Provides direction and specialist knowledge in applying the technology/application to client business. Facilitation of customer product/application understanding through presentations demonstrations and benchmarks; provision of support throughout the sell.

As a TL Sales Consultant you will be responsible as the expert for formulating and leading presales technical / functional support activity to prospective clients and customers while ensuring customer satisfaction. Leads and acts as a technical resource and mentor for less experienced Sales Consultants. Focuses on large or complex sales opportunities that need creative and complex solutions. Develops productivity tools and training for other Sales Consultants. Develops and delivers outstanding Oracle presentations and demonstrations. Leads any and all aspects of the technical sales process. Advises internal and external clients on overall architect solutions.

Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others. Work is non-routine and very complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. 3 years vendor (sales and marketing) experience. 7 years business experience with relevant computer applications or database/tools. Ability to implement the most advanced product features. Thorough knowledge of system and application design. In depth knowledge of competitors. Demonstrated project management skills. Demonstrated excellent verbal and written communication skills: needs analysis, positioning, business justification, closing techniques. Ability to persuade others through presentations, demonstrations, and written communication. Ability to travel as needed. BA/BS degree or equivalent, advanced degree highly desirable.

Responsibilities

Advanced Customer Services (ACS) is a business unit that delivers Cloud services to Oracle’s enterprise customer base. ACS has become an integral part of the Oracle portfolio to address an increasing need by customers looking for cost-effective models on-premise or at Oracle datacenters. The Global Solution Center (GSC) is a global practice to provide Pre-sales expertise and is staffed with senior solution engineers and technical architects.

Background

Pre-Sales Cloud Architects have proven track records in successful delivery of IT services for mission critical environments in major organizations. In addition to a specialization in the area of cloud architecture, they possess extensive, broad-based expertise across large-scale, project-based IT design/deploy/migrate services engagements and in the area of mission critical production operations and support. They have proven experience in industry standard project management and service management best practices.

In addition to extensive experience in IT services and technologies, each individual Cloud Architect has deep knowledge in specific services & technology areas, and acts as a subject-matter expert in those areas within the team.

Cloud Architects have extremely strong customer facing presentation and interaction skills; are capable of engaging at senior management and C-level; and articulating service and technology solutions in terms of business value and risk.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering required; Master’s preferred

• 15+ years of IT services, including significant direct experience in services roles within multiple external IT services providers

• Broad understanding of typical enterprise applications and IT infrastructures including public and on-premises cloud, as well acknowledge of multiple external and Oracle technologies

• Large scale IT project and program management, including major transformation, migration, and solution deployment projects

• IT service management, including managed services/outsourcing experience

• Commercial and contract management, including construction of TCO analyses and pricing for complex service offers

• Sales and complex deal negotiation

• Architecting, implementing, and delivering complex service solutions for large scale, mission-critical IT environments

• Consulting and trusted-advisor roles to C-level within major customer organizations in relation to IT services

• Proven ability to construct and deliver compelling presentations and propositions to C-level and large audiences

Responsibilities:

Research, design, and implementation of IT systems and policies concerning server infrastructure, storage, networks, applications middleware, and databases.

As part of the Solutions Engineering team, this role will be responsible for:

• working with product management, development, engineering, security, and operational groups to define/refine Oracle and 3rd-party applications architectures and guidelines

• consulting on complex/large customer solutions to identify integration concerns and mitigate delivery risks before the solution design process is complete

• contributing to ACS product strategy based on analysis of customer needs and industry trends in order to improve future solutions and reduce operating costs

Skills:

• Familiarity in Oracle products and technologies in domains, such as:

• Oracle Cloud environments including PaaS, Iaas, and SaaS in OCI and Cloud@Customer on-premise

• Oracle Engineered Systems, such as Exadata, Exalogic, Database Appliance

• Oracle storage technologies, such as ZDLRA, ZFS Appliances, and tape technologies

• Oracle applications, such as E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, etc.

• Oracle Fusion Middleware components, such as Weblogic, IdM, SOA/BPEL/JMS.

• Oracle Database, Oracle Autonomous Database

• Familiarity in the following technical disciplines:

• Cloud Networking & Security experience: networks, subnets, route tables, gateways, DNS services, load balancers, firewalls, auditing, logging, etc.

• WAN connectivity architecture and performance

• Security domains: i.e. Identity and Access Management, web/database/system security, etc.

• High Availability and Disaster Recovery configurations

• Enterprise storage systems configuration and optimization for enterprise apps

• Familiarity with enterprise operating systems including Linux, Oracle Linux, Solaris, Windows, etc.

• One or more cloud certifications: Oracle Certifications: OCI Associate Architect, OCI Architect Professional; AWS Certifications: AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Security Specialist, Microsoft Certifications: Azure Security Engineer, Associate, Azure Solutions Architect, Google Certifications: GCP Cloud Architect Certification

• Certification as TOGAF and/or Zachman Enterprise Architect preferred

• Proven ability to translate complex customer requirements into solution/architecture definitions

• Outstanding communication skills in interacting with customers and influencing across the organization

About Us

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