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