Cloud Data Platform Architect, Resident Architect - North America Cloud Engineering

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.

Career Level - IC4

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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: