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Description

What You’ll Do

The Executive Architect is a senior and exceptionally broad customer-facing architecture role and is critical to the relationship between the largest Global Strategic Clients and Oracle. This architecture role acts as a bridge between the business and digital needs of the customer and the solutions and services that Oracle may bring to bear to deliver value. It provides leadership within Oracle across the various lines of business to ensure that Oracle’s value offerings to the customer are feasible, consistent, effective and aligned to the client’s need.

The Team Vision is to assist in the execution of our Big Deals with the aim of increasing the size, success rate and forecast close rate of the region’s biggest opportunities and deals by focusing dedicated, integrated Strategic Account resources on:

• Customer Value.
• X-LoB Engagement.
• Consistency and Repeatability of Winning Practices.

Our goal is to ensure top customers get holistic and superior value from Oracle such that they accelerate their investment in our technologies and amplify their success stories with peers.

Humility, enthusiasm and leadership will be key to being successful in this role!  

As a Executive Architect, you will:

• The Executive Architect operates at enterprise level with a strong understanding of the client’s industry (for example: Financial Services, Telecommunications, Public Sector, etc.), advising beyond a single opportunity building a technology strategy that delivers on the customer’s long-term business and digital goals.
• The Executive Architect can be deployed to any strategic client account at the discretion of Strategic Client Group leaders.
• They work in collaboration providing the end-to-end solution architecture for large-scale transformational solutions such as global finance and supply chain solutions; complete customer solutions that combine industry specific and horizontal client experience products; technology solutions to support a customer moving a large part of the estate to the cloud or a new digital innovation such as High-Performance Compute or Autonomous Vehicle analysis.
• In the strategic aspect of the relationship, the Executive Architect will work closely with the customer at very senior level within the customer organisation typically, C-Level both within client’s business and IT organizations – supporting the client’s early cycles of digital and business transformation ideation and innovation thinking . This is a longer, more permanent relationship both with the client and with the broad internal account team.
• The Executive Architect is a leadership position within Oracle and the architect’s key role here is to bring together the disparate threads of related people, services and products into a cohesive solution.
• The common threads are the overall complexity; the significant business transformation impact; the use of cloud; and the cross-pillar/cross-line of business nature of the solution. In these complex solutions, the Executive Architect will work with other architects/technology teams to build a complete high-level architecture design that covers the static architecture, the operational architecture and the migration architecture necessary to deliver success, together with a business capability roadmap to deliver business change.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Required Skills/Experience

What You’ll Bring

You have that rare combination — a sharp business brain and a mindset for Cloud-based IT enablement. You’ll use this to help customers achieve tangible success through our solutions and capabilities. We will look for:

• This is a Directorship position that requires clear thinking, strong strategic skills, the ability to create empathy and rapport with internal colleagues and external clients, and a cooperative ability to constructively engage and lead the business.
• Extensive background as (Lead/Senior) Enterprise Architect, Digital Advisor, CTO or Head of Architecture
• 10+ years experience relevant to this position.
• Ability to craft and articulate strategic solutions.
•  In-depth knowledge of architecture methodologies and best practices.
• Proven expertise in SaaS,PaaS, IaaS and both Business and Digital Transformation related topics
• Holistic knowledge of cloud solutions and respective use-cases
• Wide background including architecture, implementation and delivery of large‐scale cloud and business solutions in real-world situations.
• Experience crafting and driving strategic technology roadmaps aligned to business outcomes
• Wide knowledge of IT market and trends.
• Significant C-level presentation and consultative selling experience
• Ability to communicate effectively.
• Ability to build rapport with team members and clients.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• Flexible to travel across the region
• Strong English and Local language skills.

 

Qualifications

• University Degree in Computer Sciences or similar IT related fields
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks like e.g. TOGAF, IAF, DYA and Oracle’s OADP/OEAF
• Knowledge of architectural approaches including consolidation, cloud computing and migration, virtualization, disaster recovery, application rationalization, information management, big data, java applications, Oracle and non-Oracle applications.
• Knowledge of cloud models is a must (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Public, Private, Hybrid).
• Knowledge of full Oracle stack (desirable).
• Ability to build rapport with team members and clients.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
• Flexible to travel across the region
• Strong English and Local language skills.

 

What We Offer:

• An opportunity to grow with and represent a Global, well respected brand. Oracle thrives because of the exceptional talent we have attracted.
• We are right at the forefront of the exploding Cloud-based economy.
• We foster Teamwork and are obsessed about customer success.
• Excellent Training and Management Development provided.
• Industry leading OTE and benefits package.

Responsible for leading business-focused, enterprise-level, architecture initiatives; engaged with business/IT customer stakeholders, partners, and Oracle sales and consulting teams; developing a customer*s architecture vision, future state architectures, and implementable architecture roadmaps in the context of solutions Oracle can offer; using Oracle's EA framework, processes and portfolio; calculating and expressing the value of those solutions to the customer; able to align a customer*s business strategy and objectives with an enabling Oracle based IT architecture and infrastructure.

Facilitates collaborative architecture development sessions with customer, IT and/or LOB executives. Analyzes and creates architecture models based on continuous feedback loop with key customer personnel. Implements and guides customer architecture teams in using EA frameworks, governance and architecture process. Leverages existing industry and Oracle reference architectures and utilizes specialty architecture knowledge. Influences and recommends architecture solutions and roadmaps to customer IT and/or LOB executives. Understand IT challenges and current state, influence IT strategy, suggest suitable Oracle products and services, collaborate on architecture development and future state of roadmap, collaborate with implementers on transition plan. Influence customers towards a recommended business/IT architecture anchored by Oracle solutions articulating its value to the customer.

Relevant Oracle Architect certification such as Oracle Enterprise Architect or Oracle Business Architect. Certification must be obtained within the first 12 months of entering the role if new hire. Strong analytical, facilitation and communication skills (informal, formal, written, verbal and graphical). Experience applying Enterprise and Business architecture and IT frameworks such as TOGAF, FEA/DODAF, MIT-Sloan, Zachman, Gartner, ITIL and COBIT. 12+ years of experience working with customers at an enterprise level. Enterprise and/or Business architecture credentials are highly valued. B.S. or B.A. college degree (or higher) preferred.