NACI Oracle Cloud Data Platform Resident Architect

Oracle Cloud Data Platform Resident Architect 

Resident Architect Job Description:

An expert professional in Cloud Engineering, Cloud Architecture, or Cloud Delivery who has a deep understanding of cloud Infrastructure data platform (Compute, Storage, Network, Database, VMs  Security) and/or Oracle bare metal, integration, applications, and analytics. Must have deep technical expertise in migration, re-platforming, and rehosting of databases or applications from on-prem to cloud infrastructure.  Experience with at least one (1) of these cloud infrastructure providers is required (OCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform). Join us!!

The Cloud Data Platform Resident Architect will work closely with Oracle’s most strategic customers in North America.  The Resident Architects are assigned to customers to drive cloud usage success through relationships, expertise, and locality. The role involves a combination of architecture level mentor as well as technical advisory covering design, migration, implementation, run and maintain, and general solving.  In this role, the Resident Architect will have the following responsibilities assisting the customer:

• Document customer’s current state technical environment and business objectives.
• Analyze the business & technical demands. including performance, latency, availability, scalability. placed on their Oracle ecosystem, including Oracle Packaged Applications like Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, Hyperion, Essbase, Oracle Databases, Oracle Middleware, as well as their VMware Estate. 
• Explore alternatives for moving their Oracle ecosystem and VMware estate to OCI.
• Schedule and facilitate new Oracle technology awareness, OCI enablement, and architecture/ design sessions for the customer.
• Coach, mentor, and lead customers through their cloud journey to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and their Multi Cloud Architecture. 
• Design and build out the OCI Modern Data Platform, OCI Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI), and OCI Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) for application development, integrations, and extensions. 
• Build customer facing future state architecture design and alternatives for the OCI services and bill of materials; Assist the Oracle Sales Team in building out proposals.
• Monitor and forecast the customer’s OCI adoption roadmap and cloud subscription consumption.
• Prepare weekly and quarterly reports to customer leadership summarizing of your activities and recommendations.

Desired Skills/Experience 

• proven experience with Cloud Data Platforms including large-scale migrations of Applications, Databases to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and/or Integrations and Analytics. 
• Have worked closely with C-Level and VP/Director level management at customers strategically positioning the Oracle driven solutions to run customer business effectively.
• Provide mentor and advice on architectural design, development, and deployment. 
• Ability to be perform a Technical Advisory role to both customer and consulting implementation partners.
• Cloud infrastructure certified professional with 5+ years of proven experience with architecting and designing solutions in the cloud with any major cloud provider – Oracle, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). 
• Minimum 5 years of designing, building, operationalizing large-scale applications in Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure).
• Provide recommendations supportive of a shared-service model and long-term organization strategy for enterprise level applications, architecture, upgrades, interfaces, and enhancements.
• Partner closely with Oracle Sales teams and Enterprise Architects, to enable large-scale customer use cases and drive the adoption of OCI solutions IaaS and PaaS.
• Have cloud certifications in AWS, Google, Azure, or OCI.
• Participate in deep architectural discussions with customers to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.
• Implement Proof-of-Concepts, using the Oracle Cloud Data Platform.
• Have prior experience with industries such as Government, Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing, Transportation, Financial Services, or High Technology.
• Good understanding of security areas such as encryption of data at rest, data in-transit, identity, and access management. 
• Effectively communicate the technical/ functional and architecture, expectation on work and architecture risks. Provide inputs on project timelines and estimates where possible.
• Proficient authoring and presenting program solution documents.
  
   

Detailed Description: 

As an Oracle Cloud Engineering Resident Architect, you are responsible for working with Oracle customers to coach, mentor, and lead them hands on through their cloud journey to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). Your specialization will be focused on cloud architecture and assisting them in migrating their Oracle Database estate, Oracle Packaged Applications (Oracle EBS, PeopleSoft, Siebel, JD Edwards, Hyperion, Essbase), and their VMware estate to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.  Also included in the role is assisting customers in building out their OCI Modern Data Platform, OCI Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI), and application development using OCI Platform-as-a-Services (PaaS). 

As part of the Oracle Cloud Engineering team, you will be actively working on solution design and implementation aspects of projects, ensuring high quality, integrated software solutions. You are responsible for providing expert guidance to customers on the design and delivery of successful migration of workloads to the cloud.

Individual will perform multifaceted and sophisticated duties and tasks that need independent judgment, to implement Oracle products and technology to meet customer needs.  Should be able to operate independently to deliver quality work for customer engagements. 

You will work closely with the Oracle and client project and program managers. You will also collaborate with other Oracle groups including Product Management, Product Engineering, Sales Account Management, Enterprise Architects, and Support. 

Required to travel approximately 25%. Our goal is to align you with a strategic customer within your region/ home location so travel distance would be minimized.

Career Level - IC4

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. 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).  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.  Work is non-routine and very sophisticated, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization.  May get along with C level.  Maintains expertise by knowing the latest on emerging technologies.

Disclaimer:

Certain US customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization and occupational health mandates.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range: from $113,000 to $185,200 per annum. May be eligible for equity. Eligible for commission with an estimated pay mix of 70/30.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle’s differing products, industries and lines of business.
Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

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

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

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