Principal Cloud Architect - Integrations

at Oracle in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Job 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. 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 complex, involving the application of advanced technical/business skills in area of specialization. May interact with C level. Maintains expertise by staying current on emerging technologies.

Minimum qualifications include: 8 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 8 years technical experience. Advanced degree in relevant field of studies highly desirable. Expertise in and an in depth and thorough knowledge of 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. 8 years experience and expertise in the clear communication of technical information to others through presentations, demonstrations, written communication and consultative solutioning experience.

Career Level – IC4

Responsibilities

Do you want to be part of a robust team that will help scale Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) as the leading cloud computing platform for the enterprise? Are you passionate about building the right solutions, teams while growing cloud adoption and help customers realize the value of their cloud investments? Create the future with us!

About the Role:

We are seeking candidates for Principal Cloud Architect – Integration position within our Specialist Solution Engineering team. As an Integration Architect you should be an experienced professional who has a broad understanding of Cloud architecture, with on-premise application integration to SaaS & 3 rd party on-premise applications as well as ELT processes that involves replication. This requires hands-on software development lifecycle experience working with technical integration implementation or other similar technologies. OCI is the next generation cloud service built from the grounds-up to support fast paced application requirements, addressing a wide range of customer use cases. Our team of Cloud Engineers are responsible for the application modernization on OCI. You will be a part of a diverse team working closely with Oracle Sales and leadership to build and expand customer’s OCI footprint, by effectively engaging with customer from Pitch-to-Production lifecycle of a customer workload.

Our Engineers are deep technical domain experts, who are responsible for both explaining and showing how Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure Solutions solve real-world business challenges. They work closely with field Cloud Architects to help craft the solution and then continue to collaborate with the customer on implementation of these solutions.

Work Timings:

Oracle offers flexible ‘work-from-home’ options for our adjusted work shifts of 2PM-11PM IST to accommodate our North American customers and promote work/life balance for all of our diverse employees. Since this is a customer-facing role, we need to make sure that there is adequate time overlap with US time zones to be able to effectively communicate & collaborate with our customers and US Oracle teams. We try to keep the morning IST hours free for our employees so that they can take care of personal family matters and Oracle also offers free home pickup/drop-off car services- via company provided taxi cabs- for our employees as well. We encourage all candidates to ask their hiring manager about these flexible work options during their interview process.

Responsibilities include:

+ Plan, Configure, Deploy and Operate a cloud solution

+ Cloud Architects are chartered with accelerating pipeline and cloud consumption for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services, workloads and use-cases

+ Understanding Customer’s business requirements and leading technical solution development using Oracle’s cloud capabilities

+ Deliver Proof of Concepts for new solutions on Oracle Cloud

+ Develop collaborative working relationships with sales, product management, development and other functional areas within Oracle, continuously contributing towards Product enhancements and increasing Cloud consumption

+ Execute on engagement including coordinating scoping and delivery in a timeline for delivery engagements

+ Build and nurture relationships with North America Customers / Partners locally present in India to drive various enablement and implementation activities on OCI

Preferred qualifications include:

+ A minimum of 8 years of hands-on IT experience, developing at least more than one full life-cycle project leveraging Cloud such as OCI, AWS, GCP, Azure etc.

+ Integration based solution delivery in using any integration technologies like OIC, Oracle SOA Suite, MuleSoft, Dell Boomi, Apigee etc.

+ Expertise in OCI Data Integration (OCI DI), Golden Gate, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI).

+ Experience in creating datalake architectures, ELT operations to deliver business continuity through replication.

+ Experience in high availability architecture in cloud and on-premise

+ Experience integrating any SaaS applications such as Fusion HCM, Workday, Salesforce or on-premise applications such as EBS, JD Edwards, PeopleSoft etc.

+ Experience in Integrating with Databases, Files, Event driven systems, JMS etc.

+ Experience in rehosting or migrating applications from on-premise to cloud is a plus

+ Ability to apply design patterns and architectural principles

Education and Certification:

+ A BS or MS in Computer Science, or equivalent or related technical field

+ Cloud (OCI/AWS/Azure/GCP/other) Architect Associate level certification is a must

Life at Oracle:

An Oracle career can span industries, roles, countries and cultures, giving you the opportunity to tackle new roles and challenges, while blending work and life. Oracle has thrived through 40+ years of change by innovating and operating with integrity while delivering for the top companies in almost every industry. To nurture the talent that makes this happen, we work hard to build a vibrant and inspiring workplace that celebrates diverse, hardworking teams where everyone can contribute. We take care of each other, and value giving back to the community. We have flexible work arrangemen